Last 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
25.02.2026 13:38 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Did 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.
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As 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?”
A 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
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🎄 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.⛄🎨
📜 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
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?
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.
⌨ 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 🤞
09.09.2025 08:08 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
📢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
08.09.2025 13:46 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
📢 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
27.08.2025 09:28 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🎺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...
A poster advertising the exhibition featuring a black and white image showing 4 soldiers in their Far East uniform for hot weather.
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.📍
12.08.2025 07:56 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A shaded black-out lamp used during the war is displayed in a cabinet.
A woman looks at an exhibition board about wartime food.
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. 📣
08.08.2025 14:23 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Jo and Amy chilling outside of the van. the van is decorated with a muti-covered livery and has a the "Archives Job" logo on the side, over the window.
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
And you can view the BTs online via Family Search.
15.07.2025 10:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Methodist registers at Northumberland Archives:
northumberlandarchives.com/docs/METHODI...
Presbyterian and Congregational:
northumberlandarchives.com/docs/PRESBYT...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Announcing our latest exhibition!
Art Deco 100
Celebrating art deco design around Northumberland
County Hall,
Morpeth
Now until 1 Aug 2025
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! 😀👍
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’
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.
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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! 🎻💃
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
🌼 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
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...
That's us!
It was great working with Adam and we've come away with so many ideas!
Watch this space...
#archives #dragons
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
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
