Northumberland Archives @nlandarchives.bsky.social · 14/04/2026We’re pleased to share our latest video 🎬 Created with pupils at Allendale Primary School as part of our At War and In Peace project, these animations are inspired by wartime propaganda and explore Second World War history 🎞️ Watch here 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W7b... 030
Northumberland Archives @nlandarchives.bsky.social · 10/03/2026⏳ Step back into post-war Northumberland with our workshops uncovering the post-war rebuilding of communities: 📍 Northumberland Archives, Woodhorn – 21 March (Residents’ Festival – FREE) 📍 Hexham Community Centre – 23 March 🎟 Book: 21 March: tinyurl.com/4tw54snz 23 March: tinyurl.com/3p9eecby 020
Northumberland Archives @nlandarchives.bsky.social · 25/02/2026Last week, staff visited the Victoria Tunnel. Thanks to the Ouseburn Trust for a fascinating tour exploring its wartime role and engineering history. Follow us for updates on our WWII project, or get in touch about donating Northumbrian WWII items or memories: archives@northumberland.gov.uk 150
Northumberland Archives @nlandarchives.bsky.social · 10/01/2026Did you catch our WW2 pop-up exhibition at Alnwick Playhouse? Yesterday was the final day. Missed it? We’re planning a post-war exhibition as part of the At War & In Peace project. Follow us for updates or sign up to our newsletter 👉 eepurl.com/jlGMpM 050
Northumberland Archives @nlandarchives.bsky.social · 31/12/2025As part of our At War & In Peace project, we’re cataloguing the diaries of Ruth Leathart, mother of ATA pilot Constance Leathart. 📕 As we enter a new year we wanted to share this diary entry reflecting the uncertainty felt as another year of war began: “And so ends 1941… what will 1942 bring?” 070
Northumberland Archives @nlandarchives.bsky.social · 19/12/2025A 1945 letter from Rev. J. L. Mullens of Seaton Delaval sends festive wishes to those away from home or on war work. With war’s end in sight, Christmas was still uncertain. In the New Year, we begin part two of At War & In Peace, exploring post-war Northumberland. Stay updated: eepurl.com/jlGMpM 📧✨ 031
Northumberland Archives @nlandarchives.bsky.social · 12/12/2025🎄 Just 13 days until Christmas and we’ve uncovered some festive finds in our archive! 🎅 From Christmas toy adverts in Coal magazine to a festive 1959 cover by National Coal Board artist Moira Stephenson, an official National Coal Board artist.⛄🎨 040
Northumberland Archives @nlandarchives.bsky.social · 24/10/2025📜 Just 2 spaces left! Join our WW2 Records Workshop at Northumberland Archives and uncover life on the Home Front — from wartime work to air raids & Civil Defence. 🔍 Discover what the records reveal and learn how to research your own stories: tinyurl.com/52fkfa4z 032
Northumberland Archives @nlandarchives.bsky.social · 02/10/2025We'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? 020
Northumberland Archives @nlandarchives.bsky.social · 22/09/2025Just 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.eventbrite.co.ukVindolanda: Introducing the ArchivesThis talk will introduce you to the archival material held by the Vindolanda Trust and discuss some of the work done so far. 051
Northumberland Archives @nlandarchives.bsky.social · 09/09/2025⌨ 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 🤞 030
Northumberland Archives @nlandarchives.bsky.social · 08/09/2025📢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 031
Northumberland Archives @nlandarchives.bsky.social · 27/08/2025📢 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 010
Northumberland Archives @nlandarchives.bsky.social · 14/08/2025🎺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... 011
Northumberland Archives @nlandarchives.bsky.social · 12/08/2025As 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.📍 020
Northumberland Archives @nlandarchives.bsky.social · 08/08/2025Have 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. 📣 050
Northumberland Archives @nlandarchives.bsky.social · 24/07/2025Are 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 060
Northumberland Archives @nlandarchives.bsky.social · 14/07/2025We 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...media.tenor.coma 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 . 0711
Northumberland Archives @nlandarchives.bsky.social · 04/07/2025We'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... 010
Northumberland Archives @nlandarchives.bsky.social · 01/07/2025Fancy 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... 110
Northumberland Archives @nlandarchives.bsky.social · 01/07/2025Announcing our latest exhibition! Art Deco 100 Celebrating art deco design around Northumberland County Hall, Morpeth Now until 1 Aug 2025 082
Northumberland Archives @nlandarchives.bsky.social · 24/04/2025🌼 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 111
Northumberland Archives @nlandarchives.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Do 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...northumberlandarchives.comSpot the Difference - Northumberland ArchivesWhat 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... 051
Northumberland Archives @nlandarchives.bsky.social · 11/04/2025That's us! It was great working with Adam and we've come away with so many ideas! Watch this space... #archives #dragons 030
Northumberland Archives @nlandarchives.bsky.social · 31/03/2025What 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.socialnorthumberlandarchives.comAtkinson & Marshall: Northumbrian sheep farmers in Sutherland, Scotland - Northumberland ArchivesThis 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 ... 011
Northumberland Archives @nlandarchives.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Blog 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 #C20thnorthumberlandarchives.comPaul Hindmarsh Exhibition - Northumberland ArchivesVisitors 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... 040
Northumberland Archives @nlandarchives.bsky.social · 20/03/2025The 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 030
Northumberland Archives @nlandarchives.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Our most recently recruited members of staff have just written a blog about what it's like working at Northumberland Archives. Do check it out. (It's worth it just for the photos!) northumberlandarchives.com/2025/03/01/n... #archives #newbies #careers #historynorthumberlandarchives.comNew Kids on the Block! - Northumberland ArchivesBack in October, Northumberland Archives was lucky enough to attract two fantastic new Archive Assistants – Jemma and Helen. (Hang on – has somebody let Jemma and Helen write the intro?) We asked them... 0124
Northumberland Archives @nlandarchives.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Disrupt the Archives project is spending all week developing our escape room. Today: electronics supported by NCC IT staff AND filming with November Club theatre company. 010
Northumberland Archives @nlandarchives.bsky.social · 17/02/2025On the release of the new Bridget Jones film, we wanted to share some more of Mary Hannington’s diaries: She saw the film ‘I was a spy’ and wrote "Edmund Gwenn (what a canny Burgomaster!) and Anthony Bushell made a bonny German secret service agent – handsome and callous.” See alt text for more 030
Northumberland Archives @nlandarchives.bsky.social · 14/02/2025Happy Valentine's Day! ❤️ Forget #bridgetjonesdiary- we have the diaries of Mary Hannington. Entry from 1935: local amdram production, including a certain Billy in the cast... "Wish, by the way, I could keep my thoughts away from that young man because he’s a silly a** – birds of a feather though!!" 060
Northumberland Archives @nlandarchives.bsky.social · 27/01/2025This Holocaust Memorial Day we look in our collection at a postcard collected by Mr Thomas Holliday when he visited Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1972. A necessary journey that does not get easier, an unthinkable tragedy that feels incomprehensible today. We shall remember. 061
Northumberland Archives @nlandarchives.bsky.social · 25/01/2025This is a fabulous thread that finishes up with us! #Archives #industrial #history #northeast 0163
Northumberland Archives @nlandarchives.bsky.social · 24/01/2025From our friends at the Surtees Society: Stockton-on-Tees 1600-1835: Urban History in Regional Context Day School Saturday 5 April 2025 9.45 - 16.00 Venue: River Tees Watersports Centre Contact martin@peagam.co.uk for further details 010
Northumberland Archives @nlandarchives.bsky.social · 23/01/2025STOP PRESS! 🛑 The Woodhorn site will be CLOSED tomorrow due to the predicted adverse weather conditions. The archives study centre will be closed to researchers and staff will be working from home. We're sorry for any inconvience this may cause. 160
Northumberland Archives @nlandarchives.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Announcing two new learning resources on our website: KS2 - Animating the Manor northumberlandarchives.com/learn/animat... Lifelong Learners - All Manor of Things northumberlandarchives.com/learn/all-ma... Developed as part of our Heritage Lottery project "Everyday Life in a Northumbrian Manor"northumberlandarchives.comAnimating the Manor – Learning Resources 031
Northumberland Archives @nlandarchives.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Buzzing with ideas! We just hosted students @northumbriauni.bsky.social studying computer games. We showed them around the archives and asked them to come up with an idea based around what they saw. We just want to make all of their ideas now! Archivist simulator - yes please! #archives 073
Northumberland Archives @nlandarchives.bsky.social · 13/01/2025As part of our Heritage Lottery funded project "Everyday Life in a Northumbrian Manor" we offered a small grant to our volunteer groups. Our group in Hexham used their grant to organise a family history morning at the Abbey this Satuday. See poster for details. #archives #history #familyhistory 062
Northumberland Archives @nlandarchives.bsky.social · 13/01/2025Escape room project update 🗝️ Our group of young people in Hexham started work on the narrative of their escape room - plotting characters, themes and jeopardy! They then created a treasure hunt for each other with clues leading to random objects around the room. #archives #taskmasterUK #NHLF 021
Northumberland Archives @nlandarchives.bsky.social · 09/01/2025Free online talk introducting manors and their documents. All Manor of Things 30 Jan 2025 7pm Update on Everyday Life in a Northumbrian Manor project and resources created. Also findings from the documents to inspire your manorial research. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1142741062... #archives #NLHFeventbrite.co.ukAll Manor of ThingsThis talk will tell you about Northumbrian manorial records and our 3-year archive project to make them more accessible. 085
Northumberland Archives @nlandarchives.bsky.social · 06/01/2025New deposit bought with a grant from The Friends of the Nations' Libraries. 10 volumes of minutes of The Merchants and Taylors Company of Morpeth 1608-1708. The Company was one of seven guilds that formed the town council. They were responsible for making decisions affecting the town. #archives 0288
Northumberland Archives @nlandarchives.bsky.social · 18/12/2024Woodhorn Museum will be closed in the new year for restoration works: 6 Jan 2025 - 21 Jan 2025 We will still be open as usual during that period. (See website for opening hours.) If you are coming to vist us, please be extra careful when walking from the main gates to the #archives entrance. 141
Northumberland Archives @nlandarchives.bsky.social · 17/12/2024🥳🥳🥳🎉🎉🎉🎊🎊🎊 Thank you so much to everyone that's followed us over the last few weeks! We've just hit 1.9k followers! (Pro tip: you can get exact follower numbers by using this site: bluesky-live-follower-count.glitch.me) We ❤️ @bsky.app #archives #history #historians #localhistory 091
Northumberland Archives @nlandarchives.bsky.social · 13/12/2024Sunday 15th December marks the official opening of passenger services along the Northumberland Line. 🎊 To celebrate here are a few pictures from the #archives of the train stations as they were: Bedlington, Ashington and Seaton Delaval #history #trains #northumberland #northumberlandline 161
Northumberland Archives @nlandarchives.bsky.social · 11/12/2024Last chance to sign up for tomorrow's free online talk: George Tate: Draper's apprentice to geologist and historian 12 Dec 2024, 7pm www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/976125526727 #archives #history #alnwick #northumberlandeventbrite.co.ukGeorge Tate: From draper’s apprentice to eminent geologist and historianA talk by Alison Tymon about Alnwick's nineteenth-century chronicler 030
Northumberland Archives @nlandarchives.bsky.social · 11/12/2024Looking for something to keep you occupied over Christmas?🎄 Why not try your hand at some palaeography (reading old handwriting)? 📜 If you are a complete beginniner, you could always have a go at an online tutorial: northumberlandarchives.com/learn/decoding-manuscripts 22612
Northumberland Archives @nlandarchives.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Our latest blog about buildings for agricultural workers in Northumberland during World War 2. northumberlandarchives.com/2024/12/04/w... #archives #history #ww2 🗃️northumberlandarchives.comWar Agricultural Housing in AcklingtonHow much attention have you ever paid to the four houses that stand opposite the entrance to the Cheviot Meadows estate in Acklington? These houses were constructed for agricultural workers, and were ... 040
Northumberland Archives @nlandarchives.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Christmas opening at Northumberland Archives, Woodhorn. 🎁🎄🎅 We’ll be open through December with our last day of opening on Friday 20th. We will then re-open on Thursday 2nd January 2025 for the New Year. 🌟 #archives #northumberland 🗃️ 021
Northumberland Archives @nlandarchives.bsky.social · 02/12/2024We've really enjoyed hosting 6th formers from Bede Academy this morning. Their research will then make the basis of a Wikithon! 030
Northumberland Archives @nlandarchives.bsky.social · 29/11/2024#NationalTreeWeek #Northumberland is known for its brilliant landscape and tree, #SycamoreGap. From our archive, for National Tree Week, here is an image of an impressive Chestnut tree at Hulne Park, Alnwick. 🌳 'Conkers' from the trees, are well-known in British culture with conker games popular. 0121