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Broken Bonds - New Perspectives on Marital Breakdown in the English Common Law World 1801-1969 This conference invites paper proposals from scholars in history, legal studies, human geography, anthropology, English, film studies, sociology, politics, and related disciplines. We welcome research...

🎉 The Broken Bonds: New Perspectives on Marital Breakdown in the English Common Law World 1801-1969 programme is live!
📅 20 April '26 | Northumbria Uni
🎤 Keynote: Lady Hale DBE
🗣️ 11 amazing speakers | ESRC-funded
💰 Free registration | Travel bursaries available

#LegalHistory #WomensHistory #Divorce

Sounds like it was a good watch! I’m very behind with RootsTech, but I’ll definitely be watching this tomorrow!

I’ve read several good reviews of Janet’s talk, it’s top of my watch list tomorrow - not managed to see any of #NotAtRootsTech today #GenHour

Hi #GenHour, my latest YouTube video has "broken out" with over 28,000 views!

I feel so grateful that it has reached a wider audience.

#YDNA

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I see @freeukgen.bsky.social has joined BlueSky - welcome - and thanks for all you do! #GenHour

It’s a bit late for this year, but are there any #OneNameStudies topics you’d be interested in seeing covered in future years? #GenHour

Hello #GenHour! I’ve had a lovely day meeting the Guild of #OneNameStudies conference organisers committee at the hotel where the conference is to be held. It’s a fab venue, & I think it’ll be a great weekend with some fantastic features!

Haha! 🤣 Brilliant!

Thank you - should have re-read the prompt!

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Looking forward to the new series!

FROM Putyatyntsi, Ukraine To ROCHESTER, New YORK Community, Sacrifice, and Perseverance

We now have two registered #OnePlaceStudies in Ukraine! Through her Putyatyntsi One-Place Study, Marta Galuga is researching those who migrated from this village in West Ukraine to settle in Rochester, New York. Learn more through Marta’s OPS website putyatyntsi.org on #OnePlaceWednesday.

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You’d think that having visited my #OnePlaceStudy of #Sudbourne the week before last, & spending 2 days in the archives, that I’d have loads to share. But I’ve made so many discoveries that it’s taking me a while to sort all my photos out & analyse the content!

#OnePlaceWednesday

Hope you feel better soon 💐 At least you have an enjoyable distraction!

Society for One-Place Studies Webinar. Tuesday 10 March 2026, 8 for 8.30pm UK time. Image: Photo of the village pub (Sycamore Inn) and the church (with its spire) behind it, under a blue sky. Superimposed on the photo is the text - Parwich: A Derbyshire Village Through Time, with Gay Evans. One-Place Studies, where family history and local history unite.

Members! In our next #OnePlaceStudies webinar, Gay Evans will tell us about everyday lives and extraordinary events in the Derbyshire village of Parwich, from the early 1800s to the 1920s, featuring the church, pub, Post Office – and a murder. Not a member? Join us and join in! #OnePlaceWednesday

I’m hoping that shoes can pass as clothes for the purposes of this prompt 🤞🏻 There seems to be a high proportion of shoemakers in my #OnePlaceStudy. I might look at neighbouring villages for comparison #OnePlaceWednesday

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Just back from a pub quiz. Our first time, & we came 3rd out of 11! Missed second place by 2 points. Team name that made me laugh the most was Cupid Stunts 🤭 🫣One of the questions I didn’t know was that the Twitter bird was called Larry! Who knew?! 🤷🏻‍♀️

I might make it a resolution for the next few days. They’ve introduced a filter since the first time I looked (ages ago), which will definitely help!

Born #OTD 1702 Jack Sheppard. The orginal “Jack the Lad”. His escapes from the infamous Newgate Prison were legendary and he became a London celebrity. But could he evade the noose at Tyburn? Find out, in our dramatic podcast: tinyurl.com/48dr483b #history #london #prison

Definitely! I’ve only had a quick play, but found a will I’d never have found otherwise

FamilySearch.org Discover your family history. Explore the world’s largest collection of free family trees, genealogy records and resources.

Another talk which might be useful for #OnePlaceStudies is 'Neighbors & Networks: Using Witnesses in German Records'
#OnePlaceWednesday
www.familysearch.org/en/rootstech...

FamilySearch.org Discover your family history. Explore the world’s largest collection of free family trees, genealogy records and resources.

This talk 'Picture This: 50+ Image Ideas to Enrich Your Family History Story' will be useful to help us make the most of the images we do & don't have of our #OnePlaceStudies
#OnePlaceWednesday #NotAtRootsTech
www.familysearch.org/en/rootstech...

FamilySearch.org Discover your family history. Explore the world’s largest collection of free family trees, genealogy records and resources.

Another talk on my #NotAtRootsTech watch list is 'Social and Civic Clubs: Discovering your Ancestors Community Involvement'
#OnePlaceWednesday
www.familysearch.org/en/rootstech...

Poster for talk 4 Mar 2026 at Upper Clatford Village Hall about One-Place Studies

It's #OnePlaceWednesday and this evening I'm speaking at #UpperClatford.

#OnePlaceWednesday. Image: Photo of a small group of flowering Daffodil plants growing in the grass of a churchyard, with a gravestone (seen side-on) and part of the church in the background. One-Place Studies, where family history and local history unite.

Here are some Daffodils in a #OnePlaceStudy parish churchyard, as we Spring into #OnePlaceWednesday! Use the hashtag to share anything and everything relating to #OnePlaceStudies, where #FamilyHistory and #LocalHistory unit, at any time today.

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FamilySearch.org Discover your family history. Explore the world’s largest collection of free family trees, genealogy records and resources.

Just saw this on the #RootsTech schedule. If, like me, you haven't yet made much use of the FamilySearch Full-Text Search, this presentation could be useful to you for your #OnePlaceStudy www.familysearch.org/en/rootstech...
#OnePlaceWednesday

I need to build out my Bridges tree because I’m trying to break a brick wall with Stephen Bridges ‘wife’ so I’ll let you know if I discover anything! There’s so much 💩 in the FS tree that I don’t trust anything on there!

📣 We're launching a new podcast! 🎙️

Ordinary lives. Told through extraordinary moments.

From kitchen tables to battlefields, these are the families who lived through the events that shaped British and Irish history.

Lucy Worsley's latest obsession is WW1 Zeppelin raids 😅

The first episode of our brand-new podcast, A Family History Of..., is out now 🎙️

Available wherever you get your podcasts ⤵️
https://bit.ly/4ra35gB

Or you can watch over on YouTube ⤵️
https://bit.ly/4l8X6Hs

No, I can confirm as far back as William Bridges b1743, not spent much time on this line, yet to go back further. But the upstream line requires birth/death 28 miles apart in the 1600s, doable, but not an unusual name, so would need further proof of that!

We are!