#OnePlaceWednesday. Image: Photo of Lesser Celandine flowers (half a dozen in all, each flower at the top of a short green stem bearing eight yellow petals and a mass of yellow stamens) growing in short grass, in which there is also a brown leaf from the previous Autumn. One-Place Studies, where family history and local history unite.

Kicking off #OnePlaceWednesday with some splendid Spring wildflowers (Lesser Celandines) in my local #OnePlaceStudy, four years ago today. Do join us in using the hashtag to share your pics, news, views, questions, suggestions, links, or general OPS chat, at any time today!

#OnePlaceWednesday. Image: Photo of the view across an icy lake, just before sunset on a Winter’s afternoon in January 2025. We see this view through a gap in the lakeside reeds. On the far side of the lake there are trees and bushes silhouetted against the pale blue sky and the setting sun; both the sun and the sky are reflected on the surface of the lake. One-Place Studies, where family history and local history unite.

It’s #OnePlaceWednesday! Join in by using the hashtag to post, at any time today, about #OnePlaceStudies, where #FamilyHistory and #LocalHistory unite. Questions? Ask them! OPS updates, resources, blog posts, links, pictures? Share them!

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Paul Blickle explores the nineteenth-century history of ship’s ballast to study global maritime mobility ‘from below’.

#ballast #historyfrombelow #ports #ships #shipping #nineteenthcentury #environment #steampower #tranist #trade

Read Open Access: doi.org/10.1017/S174...

Novedad TdS 🔥 #historyfrombelow

La rebelión de La Amistad. Una odisea atlántica de esclavitud y libertad, de @marcusrediker.bsky.social

➕ info: traficantes.net/libros/la-re...

Review alert! ✍️ ‘Sarah Bowdich Lee (1791–1856) and Pioneering Perspectives on Natural History’ by Mary Orr is reviewed in the journal ‘Nineteenth-Century French Studies'. Read here ➡️ tinyurl.com/3y5fkxmf #NCFS @uniofstandrews.bsky.social #AnthemPress #bookreview #HistoryFromBelow #WomenInScience

#OnePlaceWednesday. Image: Photo of a view across a field, with a few sheep in the foreground looking towards the camera. In the middle-distance, at the bottom of the field's gentle slope, is a lake with a few trees on its near and far sides, and beyond that are more grassy fields and a small woodland. It is a sunny January day, so the trees are bare and sky is blue, a colour reflected by the surface of the lake. One-Place Studies, where family history and local history unite.

Welcome to #OnePlaceWednesday! Use the hashtag to post about the wonderful world of #OnePlaceStudies, or to view what others have posted. If you have a #OnePlaceStudy, what what was it about about your chosen Place that made you decide to focus on it? No OPS – what Place fascinates you, and why?

The recording of Tuesday’s #OnePlaceStudies webinar is now available through the Members’ Area of our website.

Not a member? Join up and join in, for just £10 a year!

#OnePlaceWednesday. Image: Photo of a footpath running down the uneven, grassy slope of a hill. There is a waymark post by the side of the path, a leafless tree to the right, a couple of leafless trees to the left, and a mixture of fields, trees and patches of woodland in the distance, with a pale blue sky above. One-Place Studies, where family history and local history unite.

A warm welcome to another #OnePlaceWednesday! Please join us in using the hashtag to share news, views, pics, info, links, resources and general chat relating to #OnePlaceStudies, where #FamilyHistory and #LocalHistory. What places have you been focussing on over the last week?

Tonight!

#OnePlaceStudies #Born1819 #HistoryFromBelow

Society for One-Place Studies webinar. 13 Jan 2026: #Born1819 Project with Peter Burnhill. Images: Left - An illustration of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert as newlyweds. Right - Four 'head and shoulders' silhouettes of men and women, from the Victorian era. www.one-place-studies.org/events/ One-Place Studies, where family history and local history unite.

Members! Our first #OnePlaceStudies webinar of 2026 takes place via Zoom next Tuesday, January 13th, 8pm for an 8.30pm (UK time) start, when Peter Burnhill will be updating us on the #Born1819 Project. Details of future webinars are on our website’s Events page. Not a member? Join up and join in!

#OnePlaceWednesday (but in place of the 'O' there is a round Christmas pudding image!). Image: Half a dozen round Christmas tree ornaments, each with Wintery, Christmassy scenes showing a house or a cluster of houses with snow on their roofs and around them. The background is greenish and out of focus, with brighter spots that may be Christmas lights. One-Place Studies, where family history and local history unite.

Welcome to the last #OnePlaceWednesday of 2025! Use the hashtag, at any time today, in posts—Christmassy or otherwise—relating to #OnePlaceStudies in all their forms, and place-based #FamilyHistory projects. Ask questions, engage in general chat, or share your OPS news, pics, links, highlights etc.

The VRTI Team were delighted to be awarded @trinitycivic.bsky.social's Civically Engaged Research Award for 2026 for a public history project titled ‘Mapping Memories’.

#PublicHistory #DigitalHistory #ParticipatoryHistory #CivicEngagement #HistoryfromBelow @historytcd.bsky.social

#OnePlaceWednesday. Image: Photo of a view looking across a field being grazed by several sheep, to a lake with patches of reeds on its shores and more sheep pasture, plus trees and patches of woodland, beyond. Taken on a sunny day at the beginning of Winter, so the trees are almost all bare, and the lake reflects the blue colour of the sky above. One-Place Studies, where family history and local history unite.

Welcome to #OnePlaceWednesday, our day-long mid-week social media chat about the brilliant blend of #FamilyHistory and #LocalHistory known as #OnePlaceStudies! Use the hashtag to share your OPS news and views, questions and suggestions, pics and resources, and general chat.

#OnePlaceWednesday. Image: Photo of a view looking across a grassy field towards a country house (Fawsley Hall), sitting beneath a blue sky with a few pale white clouds. In the foreground on the right there are some tall Oak trees, bearing golden-brown autumn leaves. One-Place Studies, where family history and local history unite.

Welcome to the first #OnePlaceWednesday of December 2025! Join the conversation about anything and everything relating to #OnePlaceStudies by adding the hashtag to your posts at any time today. News, views, questions, suggestions, links, pics and general OPS chat are all welcome.

PAST Surveillance and Society: Reading records against the grain Participants are invited to critically engage with case studies of a broad range of 20th century surveillance records at the archives

Join us for Surveillance and Society: Reading Records Against the Grain — an exploration of how historical records reveal power, resistance, and surveillance.

November 18 at The National Archives.

Book now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/past-surve...

#HistoryFromBelow #LGBTQHistory #BlackHistory

Dig Where You Stand — About

Perhaps everyone else already knows, but a colleague just alerted me to the brilliant looking "Dig Where You Stand" project, unearthing "the untold stories of people of colour living, working and putting down roots in South Yorkshire over hundreds of years." #historyfrombelow
www.dwys.co.uk/about

Meet the Romans with Mary Beard episode 1 - All Roads Lead to Rome Meet the Romans with Mary Beard episode 1 - All Roads Lead to Rome: Historical series looking at the Roman empire from the bottom up.

What made Rome a superpower? It wasn’t emperors—it was bakers, freedmen & purple dyers.
Mary Beard takes us through their streets.
➡️ hdclump.com/meet-the-rom...
#AncientRome #HistoryFromBelow

Accrington CC supporters settle in for the 1976 Worsley Cup Final against hosts Rawtenstall CC. Ultimately disappointed, they were among 4,000 or more to attend on the day and contribute towards a record gate of £1,451.20.

2/15
If #CLRJames' famous question: “what do they know of cricket, who only cricket know?”, sought to challenge English cricket’s elitist historical orthodoxy, he failed in his task.

Given this failure, what is the authentic story of English cricket from the people’s perspective? #historyfrombelow

Looks good but #LeedsOtherPaper provided weekly reports from the front line - the villages as well as the picket lines - so is also worth consulting by anyone studying that period in Yorkshire. #LeedsLibraries have reference copies as do some uni libraries.
#HistoryFromBelow #JournalismFromBelow

Why #historyfrombelow
Or the bottom up?
youtu.be/gNE6C_sb58Q?...

The stereotyped images of the Great Depression are the individual white man at the bread line or the migrant mother. Dana Frank is all about the complex ways people organized collectively from below. #HistoryFromBelow @citylightsbooks.bsky.social

Kate with her dog stood outside her house

Another family research adventure:
My 2x Great Gran, Kate O'Leary who won't go down in history, anywhere other than in my family but I will attempt to tell her story.
#genhour #genealogy #familyhistory #historyfrombelow

3/x Methodisch mussten die Aktivist*innen neue Wege gehen, denn in Archiven oder Museen waren ihre Spuren nicht gesammelt oder gar gezielt „vergessen“ worden. Die #oralhistory erlebte so eine ihrer Sternstunden, aber auch die #materialhistory oder die #historyfrombelow.