Society for One-Place Studies

A beautiful window and intricately carved panelling in the solar at Stokesay Castle, Shropshire 💕

A specimen of the 1841 Census form (not Anne Evett's - it burned in 1922!) I, Anne Evatt, feeble, old, and poor, answer - may the devil scald the framers of this tyrannical inquisition, reminding the afflicted of their sorrows and losses; I lost the bulk of my fortune by the failure of the Grand Canal Company, in the reign of George the Third; I lost 1s. 8d. on every pound note in the reign of George the Fourth; since these losses I have had many sorrows, death having deprived me of many kind friends; a poor widow came to see me this morning, I told her it would cause just grief to three widows of my acquaintance; her eyes filled with tears, and she replied - ‘It will cause heart-scald to many to be obliged to record the deaths of their husbands.’ ‘Can you write’ - ‘can you read’, And whom do you feed? I’ll make you pay if you dare; Keep my little from from me of ev’ry day fare, And say ‘have you married another man’s wife?’ Answer with truth, as you value your life; Or should a wife stray within your walls, Pray send her to the Viscount’s halls.

#IWD2026 Individual acts of resistance.
Anne Evett, Jervis Street, Dublin. condemns the 1841 census: 'may the devil scald the framers of this tyrannical inquisition...'
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Many more women's names 👇️
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#bridgnorth #shropshire #uk #architecture #travel #photography #heritage

Don't go rushing there for your seeds, it's a ladies hairdressers these days!
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My thoughts on more #RootsTech2026 presentations

Happy #PostboxSaturday from the post office in Thetford – posted in 1910 to Norwich:

If all's well I will come by usual train. With love, Clara.

#PostedInThePast

Parliament Street. Taken from Whitefriargate with the imposing former Midland Bank on the corner. #hull #yorkshire #travel #architecture #photography

Parliament Street. Taken from Whitefriargate with the imposing former Midland Bank on the corner.

#hull #yorkshire #travel #architecture #photography #photographerofbluesky #photographersunited #eastcoastkin

The Black Death’s counterintuitive effect: as human numbers fell, so did plant diversity New study finds that plant biodiversity collapsed in landscapes where arable production was abandoned during and after the Black Death era.

@trisnorton.bsky.social : you'll be interested in this. Discussion of a pollen study showing the relationship between mixed farming and plant biodiversity, impacted negatively by population decline during the Black Death. All those weeds around the margins lost theconversation.com/the-black-de...

Screen grab of the National Archives Ireland's new webpage celebrating the anniversary of the 1766 Religious Census of Ireland. 'A crucial genealogical resource for 18th century Ireland. https://nationalarchives.ie/help-with-research/research-guides/religious-census-1766/

Screengrab from the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland showing the first in the series of rare surviving original 1766 census records held at NAI, where they have been carefully conserved. The screen grab shows how to browse through this collection using the 'Next' and 'Previous' buttons. https://virtualtreasury.ie/item/NAI-IHP-1-648

Great new webpage by our wonderful colleagues at National Archives, Ireland, marking the anniversary of the 1766 Religious Census.
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See NAI's rare surviving 1766 originals 👇
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Click through to see the full series 🧐
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Getting ready for two Archive Rambles this April:

🗺️ North Devon: Lynton to Woolacombe
🥾 Yorkshire Dales: Skipton to Sedbergh

I’m looking for local archive collections related to these areas, or material documenting the long-distance paths that connect them.

The Victorian female franchise Welcome to the first of our guest blogs. On BBC Radio 4 tonight Dr Sarah Richardson presents a programme about the discovery of an early Victorian poll book listing women voters (click here to list…

For #WomensHistoryMonth we are looking back at this guest article from Prof Sarah Richardson on women’s right to vote at local elections during the 19th century. victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2013/03/18/t...

Boundary post for Huntingdons (Huntingdonshire) & Soke of Peterboro (Peterborough).

Bridge reflected in waters of River Nene.

Wansford, Near Peterborough.

Boundary post marking division between the old counties of Huntingdonshire & the Soke of Peterborough.

The post is on the bridge above the waters of the River Nene.

Not quite #FingerpostFriday
#LocalHistory
#Reflections

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Perfect for #Genealogy #Heritage #History #Architecture #Religion #Transport research.

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Here we have a beautifully illustrated map on parchment from the Llwydiarth Esgob collection

“Plan of Bodednyfed demesne and Glan y Llynn in the parish of Amlwch, the property of Jno. Jones, Esq., surveyed by R. Owen”

Dyddiad/Date: 1780 LLE/638

Day 2 #NotAtRootsTech
- Talk that encouraged me to try again: FamilySearch Full-Text Search by David Ouimette
- Most engaging talk: What's New at #Ancestry by Crista Cowan (despite first 'new' thing coming 30 minutes in)
- Best tip: Handouts and Slides are often available even for In-Person talks!

FindmyPast doubles British Newspaper Archive digitisation capacity From Scotland, a daily news blog about genealogy, family history and personal heritage.

FindmyPast doubles British Newspaper Archive digitisation capacity
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This looks like a great event from The New York Genealogical & Biographical Society - NYG&B - just registered. I've got farmers, blacksmiths, ministers and a vaudeville performer in my tree!

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#genealogy #FamilyHistory

Did smuggling take place in your English or Welsh #OnePlaceStudy in the early 1700s?

Bilingual information for river walk.

Reading the #Landscape - our #rivers and #coast are more than lines on a #map - come join us for this celebration of #Aberystwyth #Ceredigion City of #Literature #UNESCO #Rheidol #RiversOfWales

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#envhistory #Wales #heritage #environment #art #write

This includes evaluations of a source as original & derivative, and if derivative, how to drill down closer to the original. #RootsTech

This is tomorrow and our panel is at 2pm.

Our speakers will be @sophiemhistory.bsky.social, @clairehistory.bsky.social, @historyhaze1.bsky.social, @dot8.bsky.social and Dr Denise McHugh.

The subjects of #OnePlaceStudies range from an individual dwelling – #HouseHistory – or studies of institutions (such as schools), to whole villages, parishes or even towns, and anything in between – including #StreetStudies. A medieval #StreetStudy sounds amazing!

We’re not going to risk barking up the wrong (s)tree(t), or leaping to conclusions. 😉

From ‘A Prospect of the City of Dublin, from the Magazine Hill’ (1753) James Mason, after Joseph Tudor. Yale Centre for British Art.

#IWD2026 A nice find among the records in the Public Record Office of Ireland (before the fire of 1922!) Katherine Bayly's 'domestic accounts books'. Her daily life with her daughters in 18th-century Dublin.
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Castle Garth, Newcastle upon Tyne, c.1890, photo by Lyddell Sawyer.

A fabulous resource, with images made available for reuse under Creative Commons licences! Have you found photos of your UK or Ireland #OnePlaceStudies or ancestral places? Have you contributed photos?

Images of CDs illustrative of sale items.

Bucks FHS are having a CD sale over on ParishChest.com/buckinghamshire-fhs-12284.php Includes some material of schools around Buckinghamshire. Discounts on all CD & CDVD stock. #Transcriptions #Sale

Completed transcribing about 200 entries from the 1881 Census onto a spreadsheet last night for the residents of St. John's Square, Wakefield. For some of the residents I could allocate a house number as they were still living there in 1891.
#OnePlaceStudy

See my reply to Liz’s post! 👞✔️

Note to self (and to others with #OnePlaceStudies in #Shropshire) – check out Ancestry’s newly added electoral registers and poll books for the county!

Looking forward to getting going with this! Starting with the post medieval and modern buildings and their associated people.
I've lots of love for The Green, and I know many others do too.
#Birmingham #LocalHistory #HouseHistory