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Northumberland Archives @nlandarchives.bsky.social · 9d

We've just had a lot of fun making a short video about Northumberland place names...

unfortunately, it doesn't seem to post so well here. Go and have a look at our other social media accounts (FB, IG, TikTok) to see it in all its glory!

How do you pronounce Cambois?

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Northumberland Archives @nlandarchives.bsky.social · 19d

Just a few tickets left for our talk on Thursday:

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1556282134...

Bethany will be talking about the archives that are held by the Vindolanda Trust and the work she does to preserve the documentation created around this amazing Roman site.

Vindolanda: Introducing the Archives

This talk will introduce you to the archival material held by the Vindolanda Trust and discuss some of the work done so far.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Northumberland Archives @nlandarchives.bsky.social · Sep 9

⌨ Read our latest WW2 Project blog on the Mitford Welcome Home Fund (1944–46): tinyurl.com/3mw5xpb9. Discover how Mitford community raised money with whist drives, dances & raffles to thank returning servicemen & women after WW2. 📧 Sign up to our WW2 newsletter: eepurl.com/jlGMpM #HeritageFund 🤞

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Northumberland Archives @nlandarchives.bsky.social · Sep 8

📢Join us for a Berwick Heritage Open Day talk by Phil Rowett: Put That Light Out – Wartime Law in the Berwick Area 🕖 Sun 14 Sept, 7pm (online). Discover how locals dodged wartime laws, ending in a 1946 stolen ambulance stopped by police gunfire! 🎟️ Book: tinyurl.com/55hs2ecw

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Northumberland Archives @nlandarchives.bsky.social · Aug 27

📢 Join us for our first WW2 Talk: Conscientious Objectors in North East England with Stuart Anderson. Explore the hidden wartime experiences of conscientious objectors on the Home Front. 🎟️ Book via Eventbrite: tinyurl.com/s8z9znuj 📧 Sign up for our WW2 Project Newsletter: eepurl.com/jlGMpM

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Northumberland Archives @nlandarchives.bsky.social · Aug 14

🎺Heritage Open Days announcement🎺

We're going to be bringing #TheArchivesJob to Woodhorn Museum!
13 Sep 2025
The escape room and museum entrance will be free, but booking for the escape room is ESSENTIAL:
www.heritageopendays.org.uk/submission-e...

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Northumberland Archives @nlandarchives.bsky.social · Aug 12

As part of our WW2 project, Berwick Record Office has created an exhibition, displaying this weekend Friday 15 - Sunday 17, exploring North Northumberland’s contribution to the Far East Campaign. The exhibition will be on display at St Andrew’s Wallace Green Church in Berwick.📍

A poster advertising the exhibition featuring a black and white image showing 4 soldiers in their Far East uniform for hot weather.

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Northumberland Archives @nlandarchives.bsky.social · Aug 8

Have you had the chance to see our new WW2 Home Front Exhibition, exploring the stories of ordinary Northumbrians, at County Hall? The exhibition uncovers both tragic & courageous stories from Northumberland Archives. Follow our social media to stay up to date with our WW2 project. 📣

A shaded black-out lamp used during the war is displayed in a cabinet.

A woman looks at an exhibition board about wartime food.

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Northumberland Archives @nlandarchives.bsky.social · Jul 24

Are you going to be at #DCDC25 next week? @durham-university.bsky.social

There for #HistoryDay on Tuesday?

Stop by our escape van and say hello!

#archives #GLAM #escaperoom #archivesjob

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Northumberland Archives @nlandarchives.bsky.social · Jul 15

And you can view the BTs online via Family Search.

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Northumberland Archives @nlandarchives.bsky.social · Jul 15

Methodist registers at Northumberland Archives:
northumberlandarchives.com/docs/METHODI...

Presbyterian and Congregational:
northumberlandarchives.com/docs/PRESBYT...

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Northumberland Archives @nlandarchives.bsky.social · Jul 15

Ah! The beauty [complexity] of the varied administrational boundaries of English counties/dioceses!

Here's a list of the parish registers that we hold, with their covering dates:

www.northumberlandarchives.com/docs/ANGLICA...

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Northumberland Archives @nlandarchives.bsky.social · Jul 14

We are recruiting!

Are you a qualified archivist who is looking for an 18-month, full-time position?

Would you like to work in a stunning location with a wide range of collections? Enjoy being part of a team and talking up archives to a wide audience?

www.northeastjobs.org.uk/job/Archivis...

a cartoon of homer simpson and bart simpson sitting on a couch with the words join us above them .

ALT: a cartoon of homer simpson and bart simpson sitting on a couch with the words join us above them .

media.tenor.com

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Northumberland Archives @nlandarchives.bsky.social · Jul 4

We've just released some extra tickets for our escape van!
If you're going to Allendale Show (16 Aug) or Glendale Show (25 Aug), we'll be there too!

Booking via eventbrite:
Allendale Show
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1415124047...
Glendale Show
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1461732935...

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Northumberland Archives @nlandarchives.bsky.social · Jul 1

Fancy a bit of #summer reading?

But bored of the latest #romantasy?

Why not try our manorial records blog series?!

northumberlandarchives.com/2025/04/29/b...

northumberlandarchives.com/2025/06/03/w...

northumberlandarchives.com/2025/06/12/m...

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Northumberland Archives @nlandarchives.bsky.social · Jul 1

Announcing our latest exhibition!

Art Deco 100
Celebrating art deco design around Northumberland

County Hall,
Morpeth
Now until 1 Aug 2025

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Northumberland Archives @nlandarchives.bsky.social · Apr 24

Have you been to the Gathering?

Do you have any memories or photographs that you would like to share?

Please feel free to add them to this thread! 😀👍

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Northumberland Archives @nlandarchives.bsky.social · Apr 24

At Northumberland Archives we have a small collection of programmes and posters from some of the early festivals, as well as the 'Northumbrian Anthology No.3’ - a collection of dialect competition entries from the gathering held in 1973.
📜🖼️📖

Collage of documents from Northumberland Archives.

NRO 7791/2/5 Colour photograph of The Morpeth Gathering, Morpeth, Northumberland, showing the Mayor greeting the horsemen who have ridden through the town.

NRO 10563/1 Extracts from ‘Northumbrian Anthology No.3’ - ‘When we were Young - N. Thompson’, ‘Childhood Memories – Nan Chrisp’, ‘Wor Delight – R.A. Wood’

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Northumberland Archives @nlandarchives.bsky.social · Apr 24

The Gathering has taken place annually since 1968, celebrating the folk traditions of Northumberland.

Where else can you hear fiddles, accordions and the Northumbrian smallpipes, as well as watch clog dancers, hear regional dialect reciting and get involved in local crafts, all in one weekend! 🎻💃

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Northumberland Archives @nlandarchives.bsky.social · Apr 24

🌼 This weekend marks the 57th Northumbrian Gathering in Morpeth – time to dust off those Morris dancing bells and Northumbrian bagpipes!

www.northumbriana.org.uk/gathering/in...

Short 🧵follows...

#archives #history #dialect #northumberland #bagpipes

Collage of documents from Northumberland Archives about the Morpeth Gathering.

📸

NRO 8134/1 poster from the 10th Morpeth Gathering along with programme particulars for the 7th gathering and poster imagery of the ‘Morpeth Gadgie’.

NRO 7791/2/5 Textual description of Morpeth Gathering

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Northumberland Archives @nlandarchives.bsky.social · Apr 11

Do you know a scarlet woman?

Are you one yourself?

Read about one of our recent accessions: The Scarlet Women newsletter.

northumberlandarchives.com/2025/04/07/s...

Spot the Difference - Northumberland Archives

What is history? Is it the lives of royalty from centuries past? Is it the landed gentry, perhaps it is mine owners or ship builders? … In the archives we certainly see a lot of material about these g...

northumberlandarchives.com

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Northumberland Archives @nlandarchives.bsky.social · Apr 11

That's us!

It was great working with Adam and we've come away with so many ideas!

Watch this space...

#archives #dragons

Adam Koszary @adamkoszary.bsky.social · Apr 8

Spent a couple of days in lush Woodhorn with @nlandarchives.bsky.social on social strategy and training.

Archives have so much potential. Like a dragon waiting to be unleashed.

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Northumberland Archives @nlandarchives.bsky.social · Mar 31

What links the highland clearances and a Northumbrian stately home?

Prof Annie Tindley's blog post contains the answers...

northumberlandarchives.com/2025/03/31/a...

#archives @newcastleuni.bsky.social

Atkinson & Marshall: Northumbrian sheep farmers in Sutherland, Scotland - Northumberland Archives

This guest blog has been written by Professor Annie Tindley from Newcastle University. ‘Messers Atkinson and Marshall the first adventurers in stock farming in the earldom of Sutherland are stock and ...

northumberlandarchives.com

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Northumberland Archives @nlandarchives.bsky.social · Mar 26

Blog post from our archivist, Chris, about the work that he's been doing on the Hindmarsh photographic collection.

northumberlandarchives.com/2025/03/26/p...
#archives #history #photography #C20th

Paul Hindmarsh Exhibition - Northumberland Archives

Visitors to County Hall reception in Morpeth have had the opportunity to view a selection of images from the Paul Hindmarsh photography collection held at Northumberland Archives. Paul Hindmarsh worke...

northumberlandarchives.com

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Northumberland Archives @nlandarchives.bsky.social · Mar 20

The puzzles for the Disrupt the Archives escape room are coming together!

Playtesting is revealing where to tweak the puzzles and where players might need a bit more help.

But, is it ethical to use your colleagues as guinea-pigs?

Asking for a friend...

#archives

Northumberland Archives at Woodhorn: the study centre. This is usually where researchers sit and peruse documents. This morning puzzling took over! The puzzles are laid out on the map table and desks ready to be tested.

A four-digit lock in focus. The rest of the puzzle is a sheet next to the lock - if you look closely you can see some of the creepy crawlies that eat archives on the sheet!

A set of tally sticks in the foreground with a set of coloured paper cups placed upside down on the desk behind them. The paper cups have roman numerals written on the side.

In the foreground is a tangle of pink Heritage Open Days bunting. In the background is the archive study centre desk which has a series of photographs stuck to it for the purposes of this puzzle...

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