#househistory — Public Fediverse posts

A house through time: 10 St Michael’s Road, Northampton. The story of a terraced house in Northampton, England. Who lived and worked there, and its connections with the early Labour movement. https://edintone.com/10-st-michaels-road/ #northampton #genealogy #familyhistory #househistory #histodons @histodons @genealogy

A fascinating thread from #HouseHistory to #FamilyHistory that’s tied up with the story of American #Abolitionism and the #UndergroundRailroad in New York. Now fighting for preservation of the story. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/15/n...

In the East Village, Hiding in...

If you’re interested in the history / heritage of a place in #VictoriaAU - be it a house, street, town or suburb - be it your own or an ancestor’s - including who lived there! - check out @wragge ‘s new discovery thing https://slv.wraggelabs.com/myplace/ using the digitised resources of #StateLibraryVIC. #houseHistory #familyHistoryAU

Spring Hill, Wellingborough One-Place Study🔗 has been registered with us by @casfox.bsky.social Carolyn Ramsbottom! This #OnePlaceStudy looks at the #HouseHistory of Spring Hill in #Wellingborough, Northants. Our profile page for the study includes a link to Carolyn's OPS website.🔗

Researching Your Home🔗, part of Land Records at the Archives & Library of the Ohio History Connection🔗 has been updated and provides a short overview of, and links to, #HouseHistory resources for to #Columbus, Ohio (with many applicable to other places in and beyond that state). #OnePlaceWednesday

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Happy Hump Day and, for those who love #FamilyHistory, #LocalHistory, and the fabulous fusion of the two known as #OnePlaceStudies, welcome to #OnePlaceWednesday! Use the hashtag to share anything and everything OPS-related, at any time during the day.

Researching your house history🔗 at #Bristol Central Library, an hour long drop-in session, is being repeated on 18 June and several dates in July 2025. The session introduces #HouseHistory resources available at the library. Free, but booking via Eventbrite essential. #OnePlaceWednesday

Researching your house history

Preserving a photograph collection for the future🔗 on the #Essex Record Office blog describes how a collection of photos of local churches and buildings, taken between 1920 and 1950, has been re-housed and listed to item level. A great resource for #LocalHistory and #HouseHistory! #OnePlaceWednesday

Just to let you know, I’ve got several public talks coming up this spring, online and in-person, for #Glasgow850 including #HouseHistory #LocalHistory #Victorian #Glasgow #Census Full list on my website.

https://ailsaboyd.wordpress.com/2025/01/27/talks-for-glasgow850-this-spring/

Save the date! #AllAboutThatPlace is back! It starts Friday 27 September 2024. What are you hoping to learn? What would you like to see more of?

#FamilyHistory #LocalHistory #OnePlaceStudy #OnePlaceStudies #StreetStudy #StreetStudies #HouseHistory #HouseHistories #CemeteryStudy #CemeteryStudies

Friends of Hoar Oak Cottage, who have registered their #HouseHistory of this former shepherds cottage with us as a #OnePlaceStudy, have an exhibition coming up! The Women of Hoar Oak Cottage will be hosted in turn by three different venues in #Exmoor National Park from March 15th to June 28th.

#OnePlaceStudies #FamilyHistory #LocalHistory #ExmoorNationalPark

Another #OnePlaceStudy recently registered with us is a #HouseHistory—and a reminder that places long abandoned and now in ruins can be the subject of a study. Wholaw Farm, Habergham Eaves, #Lancashire, is the OPS of our member Kath Stott.

Profile page: https://one-place-studies.org/wholaw-farm-habergham-eaves/

#OnePlaceStudies, where #FamilyHistory and #LocalHistory unite.

The #OnePlaceStudy of 10 Scotland Street, #Edinburgh, is a #HouseHistory researched by our member Leslie Hills. Leslie has lived at 10 Scotland Street for over 50 years, and her “opinionated history of one house over two centuries” was published in 2023. For more info, visit https://10scotlandstreet.com

#OnePlaceStudies, where #FamilyHistory and #LocalHistory unite

McCarthy was ditched and Santos expelled. The House is making history, but not as the GOP envisioned

https://www.local10.com/news/politics/2023/12/02/with-the-expulsion-of-santos-and-ouster-of-mccarthy-the-house-is-making-unexpected-history/

#HouseHistory #GOPExpulsion #UnexpectedHistory #SantosExpelled #McCarthyOuster #MakingHistory #Politics #News

#OnePlaceWednesday is here again! Use the hashtag to post, or see other contributors' posts—news, updates, links to resources or blog posts, questions, observations, or general chat—about #OnePlaceStudies in all their forms (including #HouseHistory and #StreetStudy projects).

Are you carrying out or interested in #HouseHistory, #StreetStudies or other #OnePlaceStudies? Join us for our our mid-week social media chat #OnePlaceWednesday: contribute your news, questions, ideas, links, pictures, anything #OnePlaceStudy-related, at any time during the day.

If you are pursuing #HouseHistory 🔎🏠 research in the USA 🇺🇸 (or interested in doing so), here's a full-length (1 hour 24 minutes) talk which has recently been added to YouTube and is well worth checking out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTIMXfLHDjM

#HouseHistories #LocalHistory #FamilyHistory #OnePlaceStudy #OnePlaceStudies

#OnePlaceWednesday #OnePlaceStudies #StreetStudies #HouseHistory peeps, do you have any advice for finding who lived at USA street addresses? Share your research strategies and beat my answer.
https://genealogy.stackexchange.com/q/19222/1006

In the new issue of WDYTYA? Magazine: Cover feature on #HouseHistory from Melanie Backe-Hansen. #ToReadPile #FamilyHistory

https://www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/issue/who-do-you-think-you-are-magazine-october-2023/

#OnePlaceWednesday
Pondering a set of personal prompts for #genealogy and #FamilyHistory research.
- Monday: #MullAndPonder day
- Tuesday: Immigration and Naturalization research
- Wednesday: #OnePlaceStudies
- Thursday #HouseHistory
- Friday: followups
- Weekends: whatever

Another newly-registered #OnePlaceStudy on #MapMonday! Mary Panther's OPS of #Mapleton in #Derbyshire began with a #HouseHistory of the house she lived in.

"Who would have thought one little worker’s cottage would open up such a wealth of history," says Mary—a sentiment no doubt shared by many one-placers who started researching a small place and discovered far more than they could have expected!

More: https://www.one-place-studies.org/europe/england/derbyshire/mapleton/

#OnePlaceStudies, where #FamilyHistory and #LocalHistory unite.

Has it dawned on you yet just how wonderful #OnePlaceStudies are?!? 😀

Join in with our mid-week social media chat #OnePlaceWednesday, using the hashtag to follow along or to contribute #OnePlaceStudy / #StreetStudy / #HouseHistory / #CemeteryStudy news, views, resources, questions, or general chat at any time during the day.

Here is the first of several posts about the architect of my own house, Robert Duncan (1841-1928), on my website.

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#househistory #architecture #GlasgowHistory #heritage

#OnePlace10 ideas? How about Ten Things about your place? Ten favourite pictures / documents relating to your #OnePlaceStudy. The Top Ten occupations, or surnames, and how they changed over time. A #HouseHistory of number 10 in your #StreetStudy (or a street in your wider OPS). Ten interesting people from your place, or a family can follow for ten generations. If your study has been going for ten years or more, what has changed in that time? Or look ahead to what the next ten years might bring!

We've been sharing the love of #OnePlaceStudies today, in the form of #OnePlaceWednesday and other posts, on six different social media platforms. Has the #HouseHistory theme worked for you, and if so, what other themes would you like to see us concentrate on in future?

Two #HouseHistory events coming soon

🏠 National Library of Scotland—Researching Your House History. Wed 30 Aug 2023, 15:00 - 16:00 BST, online, free!
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/researching-your-house-history-tickets-694617388307

🏠 Society of Genealogists—How We Used to Live: Vernacular Houses through Time. Thu 14 Sep 202,3 14:00-15:00 BST, online, £10 (£6.50 for SoG members). https://members.sog.org.uk/events/643e7686f5f3c20008510e44/description

#FamilyHistory #LocalHistory #HouseHistories #OnePlaceStudies #OnePlaceWednesday

@SocOnePlaceStudies #OnePlaceWednesday #HouseHistory #Scotland https://www.ros.gov.uk/services/search-property-information.

With our focus on #HouseHistories this #OnePlaceWednesday, here's a link to a recording of one of our past #OnePlaceStudy webinars for members back in 2020, when house historian Melanie Backe-Hansen treated us to a great presentation all about UK #HouseHistory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FP3_Fib1sqM

A number of our member-registered #OnePlaceStudies are #HouseHistories. The sources and techniques used for a #HouseHistory can be applied to a #StreetStudy or a wider #OnePlaceStudy, although it may not be feasible for the individual houses in larger studies to be researched in the same depth. #OnePlaceWednesday

In the UK, interest in #HouseHistory research has been given a boost in recent years by the BBC series A House Through Time.

Clips, and episodes available on iPlayer, can be viewed on the BBC website: https://bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09l64y9.

There is also a book, by David Olusoga and Melanie Backe-Hansen: https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/a-house-through-time-david-olusoga/1043734

#OnePlaceWednesday #OnePlaceStudies #HouseHistories #FamilyHistory #LocalHistory

Some useful #HouseHistory links on #OnePlaceWednesday:

🟢 Trace My House - https://www.tracemyhouse.com/

🟢 National Library of Scotland Maps - https://maps.nls.uk/guides/houses/

🟢 Library of Congress - https://guides.loc.gov/house-history

🟢 National Library of Australia - https://www.nla.gov.au/faq/how-do-i-trace-the-history-of-my-house

Do you have any to add?

#LocalHistory #FamilyHistory #OnePlaceStudies #HouseHistories

Our mid-week, day-long #OnePlaceStudy social media chat #OnePlaceWednesday is here again!

This week we're focusing mainly on #HouseHistories, but posts relating to #OnePlaceStudies in any form, anywhere, are welcome. Use the hashtag to contribute to or follow the chat.

#FamilyHistory #LocalHistory #HouseHistory

Reflect on your #OnePlaceStudies on #OnePlaceWednesday! Looking forward to your #OnePlaceStudy / #StreetStudy / #HouseHistory thoughts, questions, news, links, pictures and more, posted with the #OnePlaceWednesday hashtag at any time through the day. 😀

#FamilyHistory / #LocalHistory / #OnePlaceStudy (including #HouseHistory) interests in #Oxfordshire? Good news - The Genealogist has digitised the field books and maps from the 1910 Inland Revenue Valuation Survey for that county and they are now online.

The Genealogist now has over 2 million records in this collection (also known as the 'Lloyd George Domesday Survey'), covering Greater London, Middlesex, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire and West Hertfordshire.

https://www.thegenealogist.co.uk/news/

RT @2avsagas: I'm always amazed how few cars there are in all these photos from 4-5 decades ago. It's a choice to let private cars dictate city street policy and one made in the not-so-distant past.

RT @brownstonedetec A delivery boy in Carroll Gardens in the 1970s (credit: Peter Bellamy).

#Brooklyn #brownstone #History #HouseHistory

For #MapMonday, an extract from a 25-inch Ordnance Survey map showing the location of #Eton College Boathouse 20 #OnePlaceStudy / #HouseHistory.

Find out more about our member Denise Whalley's OPS of the former boathouse in which she now lives, at https://www.one-place-studies.org/europe/england/berkshire/eton-college-boathouse-20/

Map: https://maps.nls.uk / https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=18.0&lat=51.48613&lon=-0.60878&layers=168&b=1

#LocalHistory #OnePlaceStudies #EtonCollege

Finding #listed buildings—useful websites for your UK #OnePlaceStudy / #StreetStudy / #HouseHistory:

🟢 GB: http://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk

🟢 England: http://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/

🟢 Wales: https://datamap.gov.wales/layers/inspire-wg:Cadw_ListedBuildings

🟢 Scotland: http://historicenvironment.scot/advice-and-support/listing-scheduling-and-designations/listed-buildings/search-for-a-listed-building

🟢 NI: http://apps.communities-ni.gov.uk/Buildings/

#OnePlaceStudies #LocalHistory

A #OnePlaceStudy can focus on a single building, so Barbie might decide on a #HouseHistory project - she might consider Pink Cottage in the Somerset parish of Nailsea to be pretty well perfect.

Welcome to #OnePlaceWednesday, our mid-week, day-long Mastodon and Twitter (definitely not X) chat about #OnePlaceStudies!

Use the hashtag to share your #OnePlaceStudy / #StreetStudy / #HouseHistory news, links, pics, updates, questions and more, and to follow the conversation.

EP1 of Series Five has arrived! Host Andrew meets family historian Jenni Phillips (@JenniPh) and finds out about studying #Genealogy qualifications, and researching #HouseHistory. We then hear about John Spring and his connections, and we're on the trail of David Davies in Wales.

https://familyhistoriespodcast.com/2023/05/02/s05ep01-the-carpenter-with-jenni-phillips/

#familyhistory #ancestry #podcast

Realtor is holding an open house today for the sale of our house and it was necessary to let him know about the wonderful mezuzahs in two of the exterior door frames, left over from the 30s. I am certain the buyers care.

#RealEstate #HouseHistory #NOLA #JewishNola

Facebook reminded me 5 years ago today I started investigating the 200 year history of 166 #Nethergate, #Dundee where my husband works. Former Dundee Uni Careers building, now HQ of spinoff company STAR-Dundee. 49 page report. Print copies with Dundee Uni Archives, Dundee City Archives & Historic Environment Scotland. #HouseHistory #BuildingHistory #ScottishHistory #DundeeUniversity #Architecture #Space #SpaceIndustry #SpaceResearch #StarDundee #Scotland

Today is my 13 year anniversary of #genealogy #blogging. 🎉 Happy blogiversary to me 🎶 my blogs are FamilyHistory4u, Family Convictions - A Convict Ancestor, Sharn’s Genealogy Jottings and The Australian House Historian. #househistory blogging started a little later…..#Geneadons #geneaalogy

It's taken me far too long to get around to doing this, but I've finally completed a #OnePlaceStudy registration form on the @SocOnePlaceStudies website for my #HouseHistory of Marton Hall in the #Shropshire parish of #Myddle! There's so much more for me to discover about this house and occupants, in a project which has developed from my Atcherley #OneNameStudy / #SurnameStudy.

#Genealogy #FamilyHistory #Geneadons #OnePlaceStudies #LocalHistory

Great news for researchers with #Genealogy, #FamilyHistory, #LocalHistory and #OnePlaceStudy interests in #Scotland: the #1921census is available from 9am on Wednesday 30 November at https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk!

#Geaneadons #HouseHistory #StreetStudies #OnePlaceStudies

I love old documents. Especially neatly scribed ones. This is a Marriage Settlement from 1894 which includes valuable details about a house I have been researching for a #househistory And I found this - not in an archive but … on eBay! It’s pays to look! #househistory #genealogy #geneadons #serendipity #localhistory

@MarianBWood I’m the only one who has been using the bird site. I am still there but finding I am enjoying #mastodon far more. I wish everyone would just move over. 🤞#geneadons #genealogy #househistory #localhistory #history

@MishJHolman Manorial records are amazing. I poured through some at the Hampshire Records Office on my last visit to England. #genealogy #geneadons #familyhistory #househistory

After a week on #Mastodon I am enjoying the politeness as well as the interesting and diverse posts (toots) here. #genealogy #geneadons #localhistory #househistory #history #histodons #birdphotography #writing #architecture #gardens #AGRA #APA

Today is my day off from #academia, aka my day for #FamilyHistory and #LocalHistory research. Lots of projects on the go, including assignments for #strathclyde #pgcert in #genealogy and writing #HouseHistory of my 290-year-old #warwickshire village house … but am mostly mulling a #OnePlaceStudy of the lost hamlet where the house stands, which was absorbed into the larger village by end of C19. I collected this data from the 1841 tithe map and census years ago & wd love to put it to use!

A street of colourful houses. Did the people who lived in them lead colourful lives? A #HouseHistory or #StreetStudy project makes for an enjoyable and very manageable #OnePlaceStudy and could help you discover more about the place you live in, a place you love, or a place that was important to some of your ancestors.

#OnePlaceStudies, where #FamilyHistory and #LocalHistory unite.

Just arrived! Let's get this party started! #genealogy #ancestry #history #historicalarchaeology #househistory #greyhounds #travel #writers #Archaeogy

Can I find the #Genealogy #HouseHistory #AncestryHour crowd here? #FollowFriday

2/2 Professional Genealogist and House Historian, blogger, Presenter at State, National and International level. Studied history, local and family history at three universities. Member of AGRA. APG Appeared on #CoastAustralia Founder of #ANZAncestryTime #genealogy #history # localhistory #househistory #familyhistory #DNA other interests #photography #travel #music #books #gardens #antiques #kiva

Thinking of carrying out a #OnePlaceStudy? Interested in finding out more about this cracking combination of #FamilyHistory and #LocalHistory? Check out our Guide to #OnePlaceStudies, in PDF format, on our website! https://www.one-place-studies.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Guide%20To%20One-Place%20Studies.pdf

#Genealogy #Geneadons #Microhistory #SocialHistory #HouseHistory #OnePlaceWednesday