Joe Saunders

So there’s a pretty insignificant gap between the number of students doing all three subjects?

It amazes me that they thought they could steal all those billions of words so painstakingly produced and get away with it. But questions for publishers who have clearly colluded without remunerating authors. I've belatedly been asked to sign an agreement for use of work already in use by AI bots..

We have a fantastic range of courses to choose from. See here if there’s something you’d like to learn. www.pharostutors.com/coursesmains... #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #DistanceLearning #OnlineCourses #GenealogyCourses

Come and work with me! The National Archives are looking for an Early Modern Parliamentary Records Specialist. More details available via the link. www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cg...

Enrolment is now open for our Advanced Certificate in Genealogy, starting September 2025. To enrol you must have successfully passed our Intermediate Certificate with an average mark of 70% or more:

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#FamilyHistory #GenealogyQualifications

Great stuff David, here's to more!

Looking forward to it! (Note to self, write presentation...)

Society for One-Place Studies webinar. Tuesday 12 August 2025, 8 for 8.30pm UK time. "Using Social Network Analysis for One-Place Studies" with Joe Saunders. One-Place Studies, where family history and local history unite.

Our next #OnePlaceStudies webinar🔗 for Society members is on Tuesday 12th August, when Joe Saunders @joesaunders1.bsky.social will follow up his presentation at our Conference last year with “Using Social Network Analysis for #OnePlaceStudies.” Not a member? Join up🔗 and join in! #OnePlaceWednesday

A bad day at the printing press, London 1660.
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Liberation 1945 – As it Happened Channel Islands

Liberation 1945 – As it Happened. Could you imagine how the events leading up to, and the eventual Liberation of Jersey and Guernsey in May 1945 would have been ‘reported’ on social media? Liberation 1945 – As It Happened showed how it might have been. howtohistory.substack.com/p/liberation...

Well done on all Julie!

Thanks for sharing Jan! #GenHour

As in we're allowed one secretly?

That looks wonderful. I think I'd quite like a trip.

I am jealous Jane! Enjoy the hills.

That does indeed seem to tick all the boxes, wow.

Happy to visit my favourite archive today. It is normal to have a favourite archive, isn't it? (If you do have a favourite archive I'd love to hear it) 🗃️

Gaza’s “last lifelines keeping people alive are collapsing,” according to the United Nations.

Children are starving. In recent weeks, Israeli forces have killed more than 1,000 Palestinians seeking food aid, per the UN.

Learn more:

A poster advertising the 'Wills Project Transcribathon' on Thursday 24 July, 1-4pm BST, in the Digital Humanities Lab at the University of Exeter, and on zoom. The poster features black text on green and yellow backgrounds, and three images - a box of folded will manuscripts, an unfolded will manuscript, and the painting Thomas Braithwaite of Ambleside making his will, Abbot Hall, 1607. Photo: Lakeland Arts. The poster text reads: ' - Transcribe on Zooniverse alongside like-minded volunteers, - Learn more about English wills from 1540-1790 during talks from the experts, - Share & discuss interesting discoveries, - Attend for all or part of the event, - Contribute to academic research & help make these remarkable documents more accessible for all'. Details of the event can be found at this address: https://willstranscribathon.eventbrite.com

There's still time to sign up for our hybrid Historic Wills Transcribathon, this Thurs 24 July, 1-4pm BST:
willstranscribathon.eventbrite.com 📅🕐

Join us online or in person in Exeter & help us transcribe early modern wills 📜✍️

We'll email registered attendees with joining info in the next 2 days 💻

Pleased to have contributed the lead article on 'Local History for Family Historians' for this month's Family History Federation Bulletin. #FamilyHistory

Sheesh this is mental. Here’s a list of Open Source alternatives.

alternativeto.net/software/wet...

WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for.

Stop using WeTransfer.

Recent articles on How-to History are on Trade Tokens, Leases, Pub Signs and Lascars. Read these and all our posts for free: howtohistory.substack.com

An open letter from educators who refuse the call to adopt GenAI in education

A strong statement of resistance to the relentless marketing of "AI" in education spaces. I encourage all educators to have a look and consider signing on:

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What an excellent panel to be part of. Great to hear your fascinating research Kit

Campop blog #56: >1 in 3 English men in the late 14th C were called John; in 2023 less than 1% of baby boys were given the most popular name, Muhammad. In today's blog Kevin Schurer charts the long evolution of British forenames
@camunicampop.bsky.social
www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2025/07...

It’s amazing this needs to be said, but so many intelligent people don’t grasp it. Likewise, people who are both positively and negatively disposed towards LLMs seem convinced that LLMs have ‘emergent properties’, and that blinds them to seeing the technology’s limitations

Last chance to object to disastrous planning proposals for Liverpool Street Station. 🗃️

Joe Saunders History Here to help with any historical project including genealogy, property history, problem solving, archival photography and writing up research. Joe Saunders History

Summer trips planned to a range of libraries and archives where I have some research time available. Let me know if you're in need of (paid) research in Cumbria, Yorkshire, Essex, London, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Hereford, Devon, Cornwall or the West Midlands. 🗃️ www.joesaundershistory.co.uk

Lovely chatting with you! Thank you for having us along.