@fachrs.bsky.social
Promoting research in family and community history, with a particular emphasis on the contribution of locally based micro-studies, especially through collaboration.
Scottish Family History Month: Back in 1746, The Dress Act forbade the wearing of Highland Dress – and that included tartan. This wasn’t repealed for three decades. It wasn’t until the Victorian era and the Highland Revival that most clan tartans were standardised.
04.02.2026 10:02 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Our next talk is by one of our own Committee members, Lynn Haseldine-Jones, who looks at Woodford in Old Postcards.
Next Monday 9th Feb in the Gloucester Room - 7 for 7:30pm.
Great Ellingham One-Place Study. Image: Photo looking along a village street on a sunny, blue-skied day. On the left is a two-storey, four-bay cottage with white walls and a tiled roof, with further cottages and their gardens further along that side of the street. On the right, part of another building with white walls can be seen in the foreground, with the spire-topped tower of the village church a little further long the street, partially hidden by a couple of trees. One-Place Studies, where family history and local history unite.
On Sat 25th and Sun 26th April, our member Heather Etteridge is staging a free #LocalHistory exhibition relating to her #OnePlaceStudy of Great Ellingham in Norfolk: Every House has a Story – Every Story has a Family!
10am to 4pm each day, at St James's Church, Great Ellingham. #OnePlaceWednesday
One for the diary.
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Online Workshop: One-Place Studies with Helen Shields. 2.30pm - 5.00pm, 21 March 2026, via Zoom. £5 per person. Please note that this workshop will not be recorded. Image: Devon Family History Society logo (a tree, surrounded by the Society's name, in a white circle). Part of a series of 50th birthday online workshops. www.devonfhs.org.uk
On March 21st Helen Shields @helenshields.bsky.social will present an online workshop on #OnePlaceStudies as part of a series of workshops celebrating the 50th birthday of Devon #FamilyHistory Society @devonfhs.bsky.social. Open to non-members and just £5 – book your place! #OnePlaceWednesday
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We will be attending the East Surrey Fabulous Family History Show on 24 January!
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Putting Your Female Ancestors into Context. Throughout the course you will have the opportunity to create and work on a case study of a chosen female ancestor. www.pharostutors.com/putting-your...
14.01.2026 12:02 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Take a look at our family and local history online short courses to see if there's something you'd like to learn: www.pharostutors.com/coursesmains... #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #DistanceLearning #OnlineCourses #GenealogyCourses
21.12.2025 12:24 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Congratulations to our @ihr.bsky.social MA student Amy Walker @amywalkerhist.bsky.social, who completed the course this autumn, on this blog post - giving an insight into her fascinating research into social history and ordinary lives in #Greenwich.
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Our podcasts feature a range of guests on all manner of #FamilyHistory topics. www.exploreyourgenealogy.co.uk/podcast
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Are you drawn to family history AND poetry? Do you live near Cheltenham? If so, you’re warmly invited to a reading & a very rare workshop I’m giving on Sun Feb 8, Buzzwords, Exmouth Arms, 167 Bath Road, Cheltenham. GL53 7LX. Workshop 7pm, Reading/Open Mic 8. £5, or £3 unwaged.
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Temperance buildings in Letchworth, Hertfordshire which feature in Andrew Davison's new book. 👇
BBC News - Letchworth Garden City pub features in temperance movement book - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Don't forget that this is tomorrow!
13.01.2026 15:12 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0@xanthh.bsky.social this is the podcast I was telling you about #OnePlaceWednesday
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Part of a page in the stock diary of Robert Tait Little, showing details of "Lambs Sold of Exmoor" from August 14th to October 15th, at Worcester, Bridgewater, Taunton and Hagley.
In the collections of Friends of Hoar Oak Cottage are the fully digitised and transcribed stock diaries of Robert Tait Little, Head Shepherd on Exmoor (1873 to 1907). Follow the link to find out more—and contact the Friends if you’d like to see more of these extraordinary diaries. #OnePlaceWednesday
10.12.2025 19:30 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0How many have you got in your place Liz?
10.12.2025 19:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I’m participating in the @fachrs.bsky.social 2026 mini project on nurses. I’ve made a list of nurses from my #OnePlaceStudy & today I started researching my grandmother’s monthly nurse Elizabeth Brown. What a rollercoaster! 😳
#OnePlaceWednesday
Wow! Two ‘Black Country stocking filler’ book bundles on sale in our online shop! Seven books for just £10.00 means you don’t break the bank making sure everyone gets a little something for Xmas. Ho ho ho! www.blackcountrysociety.com/shop
08.12.2025 19:16 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Just about to record an interview about this for That's TV Solent ...
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Free, but booking essential. Talks cover E. M. Forster and Trees; The First and Second Land Utilisation Surveys of Britain; John Constable and the Stour Valley in Suffolk; and Watermeadows, their operation and variety. Potentially of interest to #OnePlaceStudy and #LocalHistory researchers.
05.12.2025 17:37 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
A formal portrait of a group of men and women all wearing ceremonial collars / sashes.
Does anyone know about either Friendly Societies or Temperance Societies in England? This photo was shared on a Facebook group relating to the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire. My hazy knowledge of clothing and hairstyles for the women made me guess c.1900 +/– ten years.
05.12.2025 15:55 — 👍 12 🔁 5 💬 5 📌 2This podcast on the Black Country Living Museum might be of interest to anyone who lives in or near the West Midlands: is.gd/VVU7Ju
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A black and white image of women putting up a Christmas tree.
Look at how festive charity shaped the Christmas experience for Hampshire's poor at a virtual event on 10 December.
Find out more: www.balh.org.uk/event-balh-c...
#WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll
Our talk this month is ‘Christmas at Home’ from the Yorkshire Dialect Society. December 3rd 7:30 at the Quaker Hall New Earswick. Mince pies optional extra! @federationfhs.bsky.social @balhnews.bsky.social @clemhallhistory.bsky.social @ypsyork.bsky.social @cecs-york.bsky.social
30.11.2025 13:54 — 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
1920s posed railway staff safety image, showing a railwayman leaning out of a carriage, but his head is about to hit a signal post. The caption reads ‘Heads – you lose! Is it safe to lean out of or open the doors of vehicles in motion where there are pillars, ladders, walls or bridges, unless you are satisfied there is sufficient clearance?’
Join us next week for our Annual Dymond Lecture. This year's speaker is Dr Mike Esbester, who will be exploring the hidden human stories behind Britain's railways.
Find out more: www.balh.org.uk/dymond2025
#WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll
Get your diaries out to reserve a place for 09 May 2026 - it’s our annual conference - you won’t want to miss it!
30.08.2025 08:43 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Tree Tip Tuesday 🌳✨
Keeping a Research Log helps you stay organised, avoid repeating searches, and keep your family history research on track. Whether it’s a notebook or a digital template, a good log will help you navigate through the branches of your family tree! 💚
NEW EPISODE: “The Vaccinator” with Roberto and Ramón Parra
familyhistoriespodcast.com/2025/12/02/s... #genealogy #ancestry #FamilyHistory #smallpox #mexico
