Family and Community Historical Research Society

People of the railways

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A document entitled 'The Women's History Network Autumn Seminar Series' detailing the five seminars which will comprise our upcoming series. The seminars are as follows: A Special Roundtable on 'Lesbian Histories and the Long View' at 4pm BST on 10 September 2025, a paper entitled 'Overlooked Occupiers: Women, Family, and the Home in Occupied Germany and Japan' by Christine De Matos at 10am BST on 24 September 2025, a paper entitled 'Perfection: 400 Years of Women's Quest for Beauty' by Margarette Lincoln at 4pm BST on 1 October 2025, a paper (title TBC) by Merry Wiesner-Hanks at 4pm BST on 15 October 2025, and a special roundtable entitled 'New Approaches to Writing Women's Histories' at 4pm GMT on 5 November 2025.

We are thrilled to share the programme for our upcoming seminar series. Please continue to check our socials and our website over the coming weeks as the links to register for each of the seminars are published. We look forward to seeing you all there!

And here we are!

The full programme for the Ilford Historical Society 2025/26 season which begins next month.

The other piece of good news is that we're back in the Gloucester Room in the Central Library in Ilford.

Getting busy with Transported Female #Convicts of #Westminster project; our major exhibition will be end of the year and we are planning on two tables at London Family History Show this October. So exciting! This was us last year with a very crowded table; we had to rotate our items and the bonnets!

Following this at 22:55 on Monday:
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Do you have an ancestor who fought in the Napoleonic Wars? Discover how to research the wars with our guide:

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Enjoy Free Access to U.S. and Canadian Census Records on MyHeritage - MyHeritage Blog Labor Day, observed on the first Monday of September, honors the contributions of workers in the United States and Canada. It marks the achievements of

#FamilyHistory or #OnePlaceStudy interests in North America? @myheritageofficial.bsky.social invites you to Enjoy Free Access to U.S. and Canadian Census Records on MyHeritage🔗 from 27 Aug to 2 Sep 2025. Do check out the extra resources linked to in the MyHeritage blog post too! #OnePlaceWednesday

We’ve launched a new collection of openly accessible videos, Interviews with Historians, in which prominent 20th century historians reflect on their lives and professional practices. Access the collection here:
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Excellent programme! If I were not already committed to various trips in September, I'd be there #EarlyModern 🗃️

Get your diaries out to reserve a place for 09 May 2026 - it’s our annual conference - you won’t want to miss it!

Have been knee-deep in piles of research and writing but meanwhile the weekly #househistory feature continues in The Times! 😀 Today’s is a wonderful old Tudor hall house in Kent - formerly the village pub, bakery, and post office! ☺️ #househistories

Target achieved! A total of £10,000 has been pledged and will be used to match-fund contributions made during the next phase of the Free UK #Genealogy fundraising campaign, between December 2nd and 9th 2025 (when donations of any amount can be made).

FHSC Researh Buddies poster - light blue background with a laptop, glassses, cup of coffee and a notebook with the workd Cheshire Research Buddies

#ResearchBuddies day at @fhsofcheshire.bsky.social

Still time to register to join us this afternoon where we will be discussing all things #Poynton and #Prestbury

Link to register/find out more 👉 www.fhsc.org.uk/events/resea...

To Detain or To Punish Join us at The London Archives as Dr Kiran Mehta introduces her new book exploring the penal landscape of 18th century London.

🚨 To Detain or To Punish: Magistrates and the Making of the London Prison System, 1750–1840 🚨
📅 Wednesday 3 September @ 5:30pm
📣 @kiranmehta.bsky.social discusses the diverse penal landscape of 18th century London. An incredible book using many TLA documents!

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Reposting for the morning crowd, as Law's sites contain a treasure trove of useful historical research. Based on his own statement, I'd suggest a Creative Commons licence of CC BY-NC 4.0 would be applicable to his research.

The Miners A selective list of resources relating to housing in Scottish mining communities 1880-1930.

Resources for anyone interested in mining communities in Scotland in the nineteenth century and early-twentieth century. Includes museums to visit. Recently edited. Suggestions welcome. #genealogy #FamilyHistory #skystorians #mining 📚🗃️
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Document of the Month: School Log Books This month we take a look at the interesting information you can find in school log books.

As the new school year started this week, let's look back on a blog post from 2022 about some interesting information that School Log Books can reveal, including staff, punishment, illness and even death but also holidays, circuses and the weather.

Photograph of Julia Varley on a football pitch with the caption: "Chipping Norton v Witney Worker's Union at Witney 1914 no 4 Miss Varley kicking off"

The football season is getting underway so why not get a taste of the history of the game in our online exhibition: warwick.ac.uk/services/lib... - and here's a picture of trades unionist Julia Varley having a kickabout - you're welcome! #football #SportHist

We're excited to finally share our fantastic programme: warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his...

We are looking forward to hearing from our excellent speakers, covering an array of perspectives and approaches to early modern nonconformity!

All welcome! Register to attend: warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his...

Made in Swindon: A Social History 1840s -1940s Made in Swindon: a social history 1840s -1940s was published in May this year by Hobnob Press. It is edited by Philip Garrahan, Emeritus Professor at Sheffield Hallam University, and has six contri…

📣New book in social history!

'Made in Swindon: A Social History, 1840s-1940s', edited by Philip Garrahan (Hobnob Press), explores how the GWR turned a rural Wiltshire settlement into one of Britain’s great company towns

👉Read more here: socialhistory.org.uk/shs_exchange...

A book on a table. The front cover of the book is facing on. Title at the top of the front cover is 'Ten Heroes - One City at War'. Illustrations of various military scenes including that of the Victoria Cross in the background. The words - compiled and edited by Richard Boot at the bottom of the page. A bookcase is behind the table on which the book is standing.

#SundayShowcase is 'Ten Heroes - One City at War : an account of the ten servicemen from Birmingham who were awarded the Victoria Cross in the First World War' compiled & edited by Richard Boot. Ref - LP 75.7 BOO #LibraryofBham

At 10:45 on 18 October, Peter Higgenbotham will cover the evolution of the poor relief system from 1601 to 1948, looking at the development and operation of workhouses, the lives of their inmates, and the various records available relating to them. More detail: bit.ly/3Vd7NMS

#genealogy

This week 225 NEW genealogy education events were added to our FREE calendar! Webinars, workshops, seminars, courses, conferences & more! See the list at https://www.conferencekeeper.org/blog
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One-Place Studies Bluesky Bulletin Issue 1: 24 August 2025

Continuing to experiment with Leaflet, a simple tool for making web pages that uses the same underlying framework as Bluesky. Very easy to embed Bluesky content and create digests of posts of interest, as in this #OnePlaceStudies Bluesky Bulletin.

All welcome to our next Shropshire Family History in person 'TALKING FAMILY HISTORY LIVE' event. It's great this is now a fun lively biannual event emerging from the COVID shadow. #FamilyHistory #Genealogy

From Records to Stories: How to Turn Documents into Compelling Narratives If you’ve been researching your family history for a while, you probably have folders full of records — census pages, ship manifests, military files, letters, photographs. But here’s the thing: a reco...

This might be useful for those who are weaving a narrative for their annual project research findings: www.thesimplelivinggenealogist.com/post/from-re...

Colour photograph of a hand-drawn plan titled 'Plan and Survey of Coopers Mill and premises at the top of Peel Harbour in the parish of Patrick belonging to the poor'. The mill site is shown as being on the right side of the River Neb with the mill dam immediately south of it. There is a ford across the river opposite the dam. A note at the foot of the plan says that this land was surveyed January 9th 1864 by William Kaighin.

Section of 1868 Ordnance Survey map (IX.6) showing Cooper's Mill. Here it is named 'Flour Mill' but contemporary sources describe it as a 'water corn mill'. The Rope Works are shown south of the mill dam.

Maps and plans help us to visualise places when physical traces no longer remain. This Asylum Plan shows us Cooper's Mill in Peel in 1864. The buildings shown here date from 1859, when the mill was rebuilt after a fire. #TithePlanTuesday #IndustrialArchaeology #ManxArchives

I really wanted to start a new blog on my business website. Here is the first post, no surprise though the records I'm using are for one of the people in my #OnePlaceStudy but shown a little differently than on the study website.

Free access to key collections on Ancestry - Genealogy à la carte For a limited time, Ancestry is making available some of its occupation-related collections for free. No credit card info is required. Just register with your email address. The offer ends August 24, ...

For those without a subscription to Ancestry.com, free access to many collections through 24 Aug 2025.
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The late David Dymond, who is in a beige suit and blue shirt holding a book titled 'Researching and Writing History' inside a wood-paneled room.

Save the date for our Annual Dymond Lecture! On 11 December, we'll be hosting our annual winter lecture named after the late David Dymond.

Find out more: ow.ly/SfAT50Wqor1

#WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll