📜 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 🤞

📢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

📢 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

🎺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...

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.📍

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. 📣

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

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

🌼 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

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

Our 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 #history

Disrupt 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.

On 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

Happy 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!!"

This 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.

This is a fabulous thread that finishes up with us! #Archives #industrial #history #northeast

From 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 [email protected] for further details

STOP 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.

Announcing 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"

Buzzing 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

As 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

Escape 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

Free 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 #NLHF

New 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

Woodhorn 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.

🥳🥳🥳🎉🎉🎉🎊🎊🎊 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

Sunday 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

Last 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 #northumberland

Looking 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

Our latest blog about buildings for agricultural workers in Northumberland during World War 2. northumberlandarchives.com/2024/12/04/w... #archives #history #ww2 🗃️

Christmas 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 🗃️

We've really enjoyed hosting 6th formers from Bede Academy this morning. Their research will then make the basis of a Wikithon!

#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.

Feeling a bit "bah humbug"? Spent all your money on Christmas presents? 🎁 Why not try our free online talk: George Tate of Alnwick: draper's apprentice to historian and geologist by Alison Tymon 12 Dec 2024, 7pm Booking: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/976125526727 #archives 🗃️

#NationalTreeWeek 2022/3 we worked with young people in Cramlington. We challenged them to take digital photographs. We asked them to document their town for the archives. Their photographs have been digitally preserved and are available to researchers now and in the future. #archives #digipres 🗃️

#NationalTreeWeek 🌳 During WWII, timber was a key material in the war effort. Organisations such as the Women’s Timber Corps & British Honduran Forestry Unit helped to fell trees across Northumberland and the Scottish Borders. #archives #womenshistory #WWII #history 🗃️

#NationalTreeWeek 🌳 Nov 2021 - we appealled to people in Northumberland to record damage done by Storm Arwen. Theses images are now part of our collections and are preserved with Preservica. Contemporary collecting is an important part of what we do. #archives

#NationalTreeWeek❄🌲 These images show the Wallington Estate & Bardon Mill, Hexham, in Jan 1941. Taken on her walks, Mary snapped these snowy photos of the trees and landscape. 🌨️ These brilliantly wintry trees may remind you of last week's weather! 🥶 📷NRO 11029 #archives 🗃️

Too soon? #archives #christmas #tree 🗃️

Stop press!🛑 Our website and online catalogue won't be available on Saturday 23 Nov 2024 from 10am to 1pm. At all other times they can be found here: northumberlandarchives.com #archives 🗃️