Interesting new exhibition @britishmuseum.bsky.social perhaps with more current resonance than originally intended in the US annexation of Hawaii in 1893 (Queen Victoria declined to get involved in spite of previous links)

Not much longer to take advantage of this offer. A wide selection available at the link

This is true - it's like those middle class parents talking reason to their toddler having a screaming tantrum

A daguerreotype of 'a gentleman in formal dress' produced in Newcastle on Tyne around 1850. A Pressphotoman piece on the Portrait Rooms at 35 Grainger Street and their daguerreotypist. pressphotoman.com/2026/01/19/e...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is an annual holiday in the United States on the third Monday of January. He is fondly remembered in Newcastle | Peter Sagar

Odd that no one seems to be mentioning the only thing I previously knew about him (see last para of his Wikipedia entry if you don't know)

Interested to see from this that Capaldi's grandfather was from Picinisco - also the origin of the Marcantonio (Mark Toney) family of Newcastle as anyone who's been to Discovery Museum's Destination Tyneside will know www.northeastmuseums.org.uk/discoverymus...

🛠️ Most people today encounter Dunston Staiths as a quiet heritage site. In the 1970s, it was a dangerous place of work. A new film by Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen and Peter Roberts brings that history back into view → sidegallery.co.uk/blog/coal-staiths-of-the-river-tyne Commissioned by Tyne Derwent Way

The new Met Office app thinks I'm located in a Youth Hostel. Doesn't do much for one's reputation

Sadly not those two....

Rooftop standoffs nothing new in Benwell! www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...

Just a month ago the UK agreed to a deal in which the NHS has to pay £3bn a year more for US drugs. The only thing we got was an agreement the UK would face no tariffs. Today that deal has been broken by the USA. The deal must be torn up and no money stolen from the NHS.

This is nostalgic. When I was studying to be an archivist copies of these files were what they gave us to practice cataloguing on for some reason

📣It's your FINAL chance to register for our FREE online ‘Archives to Action’ workshop on 20th January 2026 with some fantastic speakers. #Archives #History #MaritalBreakdown #Divorce #DomesticAbuse #ChildWelfare #PolicyReform #Coercion #Diversity #PrivateSector www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...

Our Campaign for Records once again calls for police records in England and Wales to be brough under public record legislation as West Midlands Police are criticised for poor recordkeeping re handling of Aston Villa / Maccabe match. more here: www.campaignforrecords.org/blog/

14 Jan - a Claude Monet painting arrives at South Shields Museum on loan from London's National Gallery ahead of going on public display from Saturday 17 January 2026.

This piece doesn't specify what the question asked actually was, so while I live in Tyne & Wear (clearly in the North), if asked, I would not say I was a Northerner

Still open, till end of next week. Can you be part of taking the sector standard forward for the next few years? Bring your ideas and experience, and form part of a really impactful UK archives programme.

#NewcastleUponTyne John Sykes gives this report in his Local Records for this day in history, 14th January 1774. The river Tyne for about four miles below the bridge at Newcastle was frozen over, and several hundreds of people amused themselves.

📣 Last year we said big changes were coming. Here’s the first! Side is establishing a curatorial office at Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, making the AmberSide Collection, our programming and documentary photography more accessible than ever. 📰 Read more: sidegallery.co.uk/blog/side-at...

City's famous Side Gallery to find new home at Baltic

go.bsky.app/J1WrWhr If you’re new here, I put together this starter pack around a year ago of arts and culture folk in Scotland. There are some really great accounts here. Give them a follow! #culture #arts #scotland

Good to see this officially announced. Rest assured the AmberSide collection is also secure https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgl8e6ygep6o

Special offer! Buy the 2nd edition of "Maps: Their Untold Stories" from The National Archives' bookshop at a bargain price of £20. It has very good pictures. #MapMonday shop.nationalarchives.gov.uk/collections/...

Posting my own book for anyone who needs reminding that photographs are not ‘the past as it really happened’, the Tutankhamun excavation doesn’t has to be presented as a heroic white male adventure, and what institutions and disciplines choose to prioritise tells you quite a lot about them. 🗃️🏺📷📸

Interesting that the three most bought items nationally from a certain supermarket (milk, cucumbers & bananas) would top my personal list of least bought!

An interesting find www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

"bosses did not realise relaxing safeguards would lead to problems"...ummm www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Yesterday Martin Chivers, today Terry Yorath - RIP both

Fiona's obviously a mucky eater - they could have given her a clean top, though she's still playing the ditz as Reece didn't realise

Nothing new....I wonder if he bothered to knock

any UK archive friends interested in a small archive-adjacent project? paid and entirely remote. DM me

This is hard to see but zoom in and there are hundreds of ducks, geese and swans huddled in an unfrozen patch of lake at Herrington Country Park yesterday #InternationalUnsolicitedDuckPicDay

Senior #archives #JobKlaxon - Edinburgh City iaghme.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

(Still a trustee of the collection and more news to come....)

The documentary gallery opened in 1977 but recently confirmed it would not reopen following closure in recent years

Sunset this evening at the Bronze Age barrow on the Copt Hill in Sunderland, NE England. Noting the increasing daylight with the sun already setting more than 10 minutes later than at the solstice (it'll be 20 minutes by the end of next week). #sunderland #england #january #landscape #sunset #winter

An early punt - DI Amanda is the Secret Traitor

Happy New Year from Newcastle

What they don't say is that he collapsed and died immediately afterwards...(supposedly after being clapped on the back)

Good morning! I said we were lifting the floor of the site in 2026, but first thing delivered a day before ✅ Google Maps is a thing of the past. I’ve crafted a custom map on each archive which feeds in from the database, making it work seamlessly. Each location is clickable.

📢 InSide meets again on Mon 12 Jan, 6–8pm at the Coffee Rooms (2nd floor), Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle. Six photographers will share work in the first hour, followed by open discussion and time to connect. Let us know you’re coming: forms.gle/1PXDuXZcApuQ...

Just caught up with the Call the Midwife Christmas special. Several sharks jumped there I think!

A nice walk, but 2 hours from Whitley Bay to Seaton Sluice??? Google maps says 50 minutes which I reckon is nearer the mark (makes me question the other walks too) www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

Recipe for your panettone obligingly provided by @nigella (though you probably don't need one @melindahaunton.bsky.social)

I know most people won't have come across the Government Indemnity Scheme before but there seems to be a lot of fuss about the Bayeux Tapestry when the scheme covers priceless loans all the time - it doesn't mean anyone's spending £800 million

Anyone who doesn't have gravy on their Christmas dinner is just weird (& don't bother clicking through - it's clickbait about leftovers (as if!) clogging up your drains)

Well, the British public gets it right for once

The more you owe, the less you pay

Good piece @culturednortheast.bsky.social on Paul Collard whose funeral was on Wednesday. Tyne & Wear Archives worked with Paul on a successful exhibition for Year of the Visual Arts 96 (www.culturednortheast.co.uk/p/rememberin...)