Our blogging and social media prompts have been designed with our members in mind, but anyone can take part – even if they don’t have a formal one-place study (see One-place study blogging prompts 2021 – everyone’s invited!). The prompts are a series of monthly themes or topics for one-place study activities. Those activities can be any or all of the following:
You are free to use any or all of these prompts – you might look at the topics and see that you can do something for January, March, April and June but not for February or May, for example. We hope that this approach will be flexible enough to give everyone an opportunity to take part, whatever the nature of your Place, your favourite areas of research, or the amount of time you have available.
Articles on the topics written by members for Destinations can be sent to the editor at any time for publication, but where possible please post related blog and social media posts during the relevant months.
Hopefully you will find at least one topic which will spark your interest and prompt you to participate. If not, we have more to come – Hopefully you will find lots of topics which will spark your interest and prompt you to participate – and we have more to come! You can of course put forward suggestions for any that you would like to see included.
Carers Week takes place in June in the UK. While that event seeks to raise awareness of the vital role of (and challenges faced by) unpaid carers, our prompt invites you to look at carers of all kinds in your one-place studies. Whether paid or unpaid, whether working in homes or institutions, and whether caring for young, elderly or infirm people – who provided care for people who needed it in you place, and who from your place provided
such care elsewhere?
Social media hashtag: #OnePlaceCarers
Most of the people recorded in the censuses, parish registers and other records relating our OPS places were residents – but some were sojourners or visitors, passing through or calling on business, travelling folk or other itinerants, holidaymakers or other short-term guests. Who were they, where were they from, and what were the reasons for theirvisits? Have you found anyone recorded as a visitor more than once, visitors who became residents, or residents who moved away but later returned briefly to see family or friends?
Social media hashtag: #OnePlaceVisitors
Inspired by the presentations on social networks given by Joe Saunders at our conference in 2024 and our August 2025 webinar (recordings of which can be accessed through the Members’ Area of our website), we’re making networks our OPS prompt for February 2026. One-place studies reveal a multitude of social networks involving the people of our places, highlighting a variety of familial, financial, business, charitable, religious, recreational and other relationships. Blog / social media posts and short videos on all kinds of networks will be welcome.
Social media hashtag: #OnePlaceNetworks
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