#OnePlaceWednesday – 13 Aug 2025
From the Society for One-Place Studies, Bluesky handle @oneplacestudies.bsky.social
#OnePlaceWednesday is a weekly social media chat, taking place primarily on Bluesky, when we share posts about one-place studies – and invite others to do the same – using the hashtag. Here are highlights from August 13th, 2025.
The Image used to launch #OnePlaceWednesday this week, featuring Fawsley Hall in the parish of Fawsley, Northamptonshire, England, is by the Society’s Social Media Coordinator Steve Jackson, who conducts the Fawsley One-Place Study.
After the Great Fire of London in 1666, farmer John Woodman of Kellaways, Wilts was suspected of starting it after allegedly expressing intent to set London ablaze shortly before. A warrant was issued but he vanished. He quietly returned & died at home in Kellaways 3 years later. #OnePlaceWednesday
Since we last checked The Badsey Society🔗 website, many more articles (11 in July alone!) on a variety of topics have been added for the #OnePlaceStudy of Badsey, Aldington and Wickhamford in Worcestershire. Well worth a look on #OnePlaceWednesday!
🏴 #OnePlaceWednesday showcase: Hoxne, Suffolk Explore the lives & stories of residents in this community through collaborative genealogy research! 📍https://www.WikiTree.com/wiki/Space:Hoxne,_Suffolk_One_Place_Study #OnePlaceStudy #CollaborativeGenealogy
The link in the above post, to the Hoxne, Suffolk One Place Study page on WikiTree, doesn’t work, but the one in this comment does!
An exciting #OnePlaceWednesday for me - I’m planning a birthday trip to my #OnePlaceStudy of #Sudbourne! We’ll be staying in the nearby village of #Orford. We’ll be visiting places which give an insight into the social history of Suffolk and having fun on Southwold Pier! #WindowsOnWednesday
Want to know more about this One-Place Study in Suffolk, England? Visit the Sudbourne One-Place Study profile page on our website!
Love this little tree. Blossoms and berries make frames in their season. #DiggingBandOfBrothers Operation Nightingale #OnePlaceWednesday #Aldbourne
The One-Place Study of Aldbourne in Wiltshire, England has its own website, the Aldbourne Archive!
Good news on #OnePlaceWednesday for those interested in #HouseHistory in #Shropshire: Shropshire Archives has announced🔗 a new House History Guide! Not quite such good news: Currently the book is only available to buy in person at the Archives (and, in 2025 the Archive is only open on Thursdays🔗).
Interested in a course to guide your first steps to a #OnePlaceStudy? You’ll be pleased to hear that @pharostutors.bsky.social have just the thing for you – and that Society members can claim a 10% discount (go to Member Offers in the Members’ Area of our website)! #OnePlaceWednesday
Here's the all-important link to find out more about the First Steps to a One-Place Study course.
I’m spending #OnePlaceWednesday having a good sort out of materials old and new. I need to create space as I gather more projects. Came across this and wondered if any one else remembers Eve McLaughlin. She was a major help to local people starting out on a FH journey back in the early 80’s
Christine conducts the Northdown Close, Ruislip One-Place Study.
The next meeting of the Bourne End, Bucks, #OnePlaceStudy Society takes place 21 August 2025 from 8pm at Bourne End Community Centre. A Fireside Chat with Brian Ody and Roger Taplin🔗 continues a series of informal chats with local residents about life in the village. #OnePlaceWednesday
Interested in Bourne End, Buckinghamshire? Visit the Bourne End Bucks One Place Study website!
Err... don't think so. Whalley parish church, the ancient parish of my #OnePlaceStudies place. #OnePlaceWednesday
We added the hashtag #OnePlaceOops! (1819 must have been a leap leap year...) Janet's One-Place Study is of Springhill in Rossendale, Lancashire, England.
The subject of the Society of Australian Genealogists🔗 @socaustgen.bsky.social’s online Family History Connect session on August 5th was “What Makes a Place? Rethinking Boundaries in #OnePlaceStudies.” SAG members can access a recording in the SAG website’s Webinar Library. #OnePlaceWednesday
17th Century Inn, Thurcaston - The name 'Wheatsheaf Inn' was first painted on the roof in 1957. Despite receiving complaints and an order from the County Council to remove it, the writing has remained in place. #APlaceOutOfPlace #CharnwoodForest #OnePlaceWednesday #OnePlaceStudies
Our #OnePlaceStudies blogging prompt🔗 for August is #OnePlaceLandowners, and we have monthly prompts lined up for the rest of 2025. It won’t be long before I start planning prompts for 2026—feel free to put forward any suggestions you might have by replying to this post or via DM. #OnePlaceWednesday
Looking for prompts / themes for One-Place Study, place-based family history or local history blog posts? Our monthly prompts have been running since 2021, so check out the Blogging Prompts pages on our website for ideas and inspiration!
The Local History Expo🔗 on 6 Sep 2025 looks like it will be a great event for anyone interested in #FamilyHistory, #LocalHistory or #OnePlaceStudies in the St Louis, MO area! 30+ local history societies and repositories will be present this free event; no registration required. #OnePlaceWednesday
And that’s a wrap for #OnePlaceWednesday, August 13th 2025! Why not catch up with the next instalment, #OnePlaceWednesday – 20 Aug 2025.
Interested in finding out more about us or about One-Place Studies, downloading a handy Guide to One-Place Studies in PDF format, checking out the 400+ One-Place Studies registered with us by our members, or becoming a member yourself and joining our supportive worldwide community of ‘one-placers’? It’s all on our website!
