A look ahead to next month’s webinar for Society for #OnePlaceStudies members: “Murder, Sex and Mayhem in English Churches,” a talk by @johnevigar.bsky.social John Vigar. Why not join us🔗 and join in? #OnePlaceWednesday

Two of Wing’s teachers received second-class marks in the recent Bedfordshire Pupil Teachers Examinations. Congratulations to Mary Windmill and Kate Lambert, in their 2nd and 1st year of apprenticeship respectively. #1875OPS #OnePlaceStudies

This #OnePlaceWednesday is also the feast day of Saint Magnus, Earl of Orkney until he was slain on 16 April 1117. We have two member-registered #OnePlaceStudies in #Orkney, which you can learn more about via the Orkney page on our website🔗. #OrkneyDay

It’s #OnePlaceWednesday! What got ewe interested in #OnePlaceStudies? Why are people flocking to this fabulous field of research, uniting #FamilyHistory and #LocalHistory? How many more sheep puns can I ram into this post?!? Join the OPS conversation by posting with the hashtag, at any time today. 🐑

Thomas Woolhead was convicted of being drunk, but said a contributing factor was a man named Roadnight who gave him “a smack of the head” on the way home and made him noisy. #1875OPS #OnePlaceStudies

Members! Submissions for the June issue of our #OnePlaceStudies journal Destinations are needed. Got a paragraph on your Place? An article on occupations / VE/VJ Day commemorations / anything else OPS-related? Please send it to the editor (email address on our website🔗 by 31 May! #OnePlaceWednesday

If you missed Taking It Further🔗, the second part of our Chair Janet Barrie’s #OnePlaceStudies workshop for @projectkin.bsky.social, or if you want to watch again, it’s on YouTube. Great #OnePlaceWednesday viewing!

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#OnePlaceWednesday starts with a sunrise (from my local OPS) this week. When did it dawn on you that #OnePlaceStudies are brilliant? Join the conversation—or ask questions—about this brilliant blend of #FamilyHistory and #LocalHistory at any time during the day, by using the hashtag in your posts.

Advance notice on #OnePlaceWednesday of a talk🔗 about #OnePlaceStudies by our Chair, Janet Barrie, to the #Bradford #FamilyHistory Society on 4 Sep 2025, 10am-12 noon. In-person at the Mechanics Institute (£1.50 for BFHS members, £2.50 non-members) and by Zoom (BFHS members only).

Our #OnePlaceStudies blogging prompt for April, inspired by the #AToZChallenge, is #OnePlaceAToZ. Possibilities range from 26 blog posts to just a single or 2-part post tackling an A to Z of people, features or themes connected your place, in words or perhaps in pictures. #OnePlaceWednesday