🎬 "Made Together: Amber Films & The Workshop Movement" is now open at Tyneside Cinema. Explore Amber’s 1980s filmmaking through info panels exploring stills, scripts, notes and archive material from Keeping Time, Seacoal, Double Vision and In Fading Light. 🔗 sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...

Not a bad start to new #WDYTYA series, though a lot of dotting about the country.

Miner "out of work" in 1921 census generally means on strike or locked out - do more research! #WDYTYA

I know mate. (Came up as my random screen pic earlier)

📸 Join us! InSide is a meet-up for photographers working in documentary. A space to share work, ask questions, and build community. Next meeting: 🗓️ Tue 26 May, 6–8pm 📍Meet outside the Northumberland Building, Northumbria University, NE1 8SG 🔗 sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...

Wtching #RaceAcrossTheWorld on slight delay - right result!

🚨We are hiring🚨 We are recruiting for 2x Archivist posts: Archivist (Access and Engagement) - fixed-term until March 2028. Project Archivist (Setting the Record Straight) - fixed-term, 12 months. To find out more about the roles and apply take a look at our website⬇️. #archives #jobs

"Migrant with only 20 years NI contributions thought UK taxpayer would fund comfortable retirement in Portugal" (oh, he's white so that's ok)

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Formerly commonplace things that are now seemingly hard to come by: ordinary household candles. (No, I don't want scented ones, or pillar ones or any other kind of fancy thank you)

Hoping the power stays on long enough tonight for me to cook the chicken I should have had last night! I noticed there are some diggings in the next street that could be either the cause or cure of the recent outages

On the fundamental importance of archives and archivists

May 2026 marks 53 years since the oil tanker World Unicorn was launched from Swan Hunter’s Wallsend shipyard. Amber’s film Launch documents the construction/launch of the vessel when shipbuilding shaped life along the Tyne. Amber Films 1974. Reposted from @amber_sidegallery @sidegallery.bsky.social

Reminiscent of the early 70s as we have our third power outage in 2 days. Hoping they get it properly sorted this time

A post-Watergate law makes Presidential records government property. The Trump Administration has declared it unconstitutional. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

In news that is going to annoy a certain subsection of the people on here, the UK's ICO has clarified that AI chatbot/tool outputs are FOIable. My latest for @newscientist.com www.newscientist.com/article/2526...

www.maptap.gg May 13 91😁 90🌟 96🔥 82😁 95🏅 Final score: 904 good result today but game betraying its US origin in thinking it’s harder to pinpoint Bratislava than Fort Sumter, South Carolina (where?)

Only just got round to reading this - excellent as usual

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Come join the Board with me!

I remember learning about Hughesovka (now Donetsk) for the Welsh section of my History O level.

New exhibition open: When Britain Stood Still: The General Strike at 100 Explore how workers, politicians & trade unionists responded to the 1926 General Strike & how opposition was organised against it www.ncl.ac.uk/library/special-collections/exhibitions/when-britain-stood-still #GeneralStrike100

Helping...or hindering? May interest those who were reading #Clash2026

Centenary of derailment of the Flying Scotsman at Cramlington during the General Strike www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Shipbuilding obviously important to the north east’s history but depressing that nobody seems aware how much it’s already represented @northeastmuseums (or that there’s been a previous feasibility study) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9q34lrzyq9o

South of the Tyne - there be dragons 😥

Catching up with two episodes of Race Across the World - some lovely places I have been!

Some people may recognise someone in the photo https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c936kpe77e5o

Pocket watch presented to Discovery Museum www.culturednortheast.co.uk/p/tv-series-...

#SadArchivistOnTour a continuing series. State Archives of Corfu (Sunday, so not open)

Judging by his social posts he may ‘harve’ spelt it wrong himself on his application

Presumably why our recycling wasn’t collected today

Pleased to hear about the (RC) Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle - I'd wondered what had happened to the archive when I found out quite recently that they'd sold Bishop's House

TNA job klaxon! Records Specialist - Family History: deadline, 7th May...

If you see this post something orange from your gallery

🩰 North Shields Library is hosting an all day screening of Still Here (Amber Films, 2018) in support of Dewi Lewis Publishing’s Kickstarter for a new extended reprint of Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen’s Step by Step. Screening info: sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/... Kickstarter: kickstarter.com/projects/de...

The Rita Wilson @theguardian.com Flashback is a good illustration of why they don't do Hollywood Stars very often. She looks *exactly* the same as she did in 1970 (sorry, can't find online link)

A letter out of the blue (we didn't have a phone) offering the chance of a 6-month job at my (fairly) local archive when I was unemployed after uni. I'd previously had a humiliating interview for a postgrad archives course that made it pretty clear I wasn't their type. The rest is history

🪨 “A place formed by collective labour is photographed through a collective practice.” Our new blog by Creative Director Ellen Stone looks at "Working the Landscape: Images of Frosterley" and the politics of making documentary collectively in the North East. Read: sidegallery.co.uk/blog/work... 🪨

I just plotted the route from my house to the Swing Bridge - a 44 minute walk, but not if you stop to admire all 12 heritage sites flagged along the way!

Good morning! The first version of our Route Builder is now OPEN on the link below! If you use it over the weekend please let me know what you think and let me know what you find 🍻

Akhaltsike, Georgia looks like one of the #NewcastlesOfTheWorld that looks worth visiting! #RaceAcrossTheWorld

#UnconfinedWalks more #bluebells today - Bothal Woods, Morpeth

Tickets are now available for the premiere of our documentary, Defiant: County Durham, The Miners' Strike and its Legacy which looks at (the old county of) Durham's experience of the Miners' Strike and the continuing effects of deindustrialisation. 1/3 tickets.redhillsdurham.org/event/defian...

This 👇 (& one of those things professionals know but few people outside understand) (even less than white gloves)

'Hexham Abbey Church' in 3D taken in September 1861 and credited to Eliza Charlton of 7 Eldon Square, Newcastle upon Tyne. Learn more about this early woman photographer in my latest Pressphotoman piece. Link below.

📣 LOCATION CHANGE! InSide's April meeting has had a change of location - join us April 20th at Coffee Rooms, Tyneside Cinema. Next meeting: 🗓️ Mon 20 April, 6–8pm 📍Coffee Rooms, 2nd Floor, Tyneside Cinema,10 Pilgrim Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 6QG 🔗 sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...

🏗️ New Exhibition: Planned Space Lived Place Bringing together the AmberSide Collection and InSide: Documentary Photography Community to look at how Northern New Towns are shaped through everyday life. 📍 Farrell Centre 🗓️ Open until 28 August 2026 🔗 sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...

Nobody's told me, but it appears to be Juan Peron in 1955 (later reconciled)

#UnconfinedWalks today, near Durham #bluebells