Out now. Our anthology of commissioned creative writing & short historical commentaries from the #ColonialCountryside project about National Trust houses published by Peepal Tree Press. With a photo essay by Ingrid Pollard

It's back to school today in my house! To learn more about your ancestors' school days, read my article on sources that can tell you more about them: genealogyjude.com/2021/03/13/sch… #Back2School #genealogy #familyhistory #familytree

Postcard of the Day: Pitlochry and Ben-Y-Vrackie, c.1930s. 📷 Local & Family History Collection, AK Bell Library #ExploreYourArchive

Plans for tomorrow? There's 700+ events running across England on the first day of #HODs! What will you discover? 🍂 Winkworth Arboretum 🛳️ Buckler's Hard Museum 📽️The Electric Palace 🍐The Storey & Gardens Discover more #HODs events running tomorrow: ow.ly/eKub50TfaXm

Good to see the appreciation for the fabulous Tracey Loughborough Road SW9 history! We are blessed to have her here on #PlanetTooting on Sunday, joining me amongst the birds & honey bees, taking a look at #ThePeopleOfStreathamCemetery' Meet 2pm main entrance on Garratt Lane! peopleofstreatham.eventbrite.co.uk

The great flood of 1607 brought death & destruction to villages & communities occupying low-lying land near the Bristol Channel & Severn Estuary. Was your #OnePlaceStudy or an ancestral place affected by this or other flood events? #OnePlaceWater is our September blogging prompt.

Just me to take a plant to Mum today so I had a good explore of Torryburn cemetery: lots of familiar surnames, a few war graves, a little exotic geography, 3 pit disasters, 4 family friends and a #OnePlaceStudy Cairneyhill church minister.

The latest *draft* text from VCH_Somerset concerns Taunton, the county town, centre of an enormous medieval estate belonging to the Bishops of Winchester It is available for comment, correction and research purposes. history.ac.uk/research/victo…

If you'll pardon a little campaigning... I'm eager to get the good folks at Substack to consider adding Genealogy as a new category to help us all find each other over there 👉 Um... instead of here. 🤭 substack.com/@missiongeneal…

Old shop front at 10 Newton St and 479 Sauchiehall St, J Foster, chemist, 1923 Archive Ref: D-CA 8/2946

Windmill Road in Chiswick c 1920s

Oh, Rose is so lovely! Love that reaction about being Italian! And great question about South Molton... good history starts with asking questions & being curious! #WhoDoYouThinkYouAre

Glenoe Village. Co Antrim. early 1900s. (National Museums Northern Ireland)

Keighley Show tomorrow, 7th September! If you're attending, please come and visit the Men of Worth Project stand to find out what we've been doing this year, with Keighley's 1914 - 1918 roll of honour! It's a big blue stand! For info on the show visit: keighleyshow.co.uk

Caught in the wall of a later building like a fly in amber - a ghost cloister at Hexham Abbey in Northumberland

Here we go again with another round of my #maps course at PharosTutors...5 wonderful weeks of mapping methods for your #FamilyHistory! Starts this Monday and there are still a few places available - check the post below for the link to book your place 👇

If you've been enjoying the latest series of Rings of Power, why not check out our college of archive images relating to Tolkien's Birmingham? tinyurl.com/rbzusjak #RingsOfPower #Tolkien #Birmingham #Brum #LocalHistory

As well as being a fantastic building to visit, the British Library also contains a wide variety of family history resources, free to use: buff.ly/3X7rDtv #NWKFHS #Genealogy #FamilyTree #FamilyHistory #Library

Thanks to some hard work earlier this year our directory of Community Archives & Heritage Groups in the UK & Ireland now has nearly 1000 entries. Surely a record? Add your group here communityarchives.org.uk/content/contri…

Delighted to be teaming up again with Geoff Simmons this Sunday, 8 September for #ThePeopleofStreathamCemetery 2pm, come and join us.