I’m guessing my timeline will have more George Smileys than Jack Reachers

Well hello Dave! I wondered where you'd got to....

Let me explain Universal Healthcare. It doesn't matter how much it costs, because if all the money goes to Nurses, Doctors, Hospitals and treatments run by the Government all that money goes back to the Government. So it cannot be unaffordable. The real problem, no profits

In my year at school! No relation - there’s a lot of us about

📸 Join us! InSide is a meet-up for photographers working in documentary. A space to share work, ask questions, and build community. Next meeting: 🗓️ Mon 20 April, 6–8pm 📍Meet outside the Northumberland Building, Northumbria University, NE1 8SG 🔗 sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...

Good news for people with Yorkshire ancestors!

Well, who knew that Wild Thing was witten by Jon Voight's brother? Or that he also wrote Angel of the Morning? Not me! www.theguardian.com/music/2026/m...

🛒 Laurie Wheatley was a South Shields-born, self-taught artist. His influence was significant, shaping Amber's understanding of working-class expression. When Wheatley died, he willed his negatives and prints, along with a number of sculptures and paintings, to Amber co-founder, Murray Martin.

He obviously hasn't checked since at least 1982

Feature on Archives Revealed grant for Northern Ireland shipbuilding archive www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Still scepticism over in the other place, but it's been pointed out that several thousand women would have needed to defy their menfolk to vote Reform for them to have won - seems unlikely! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

⚓ In the 1980s, Side commissioned Bruce Rae to photograph shipbuilding along the River Tyne as the industry came under growing threat. Showcasing both the ships and the men in the yards, these images show history is not only industrial, but human. Explore more: sidegallery.co.uk/collectio...

Almost certainly better company than her husband https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c747x7wpel3o

Footballer buys book shock! (well done Erling Haaland) www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

10 years ago today was my last day at Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums before formal retirement at the end of the month. Not sure where that time went! Cake made & decorated by colleague not on this space

Just started this today & somewhat floored by realisation this is the same Andrew George I was at university with (last seen running a pub though it was a very long time ago)

Tomorrow afternoon, Johnny Handle will be joined by Benny Graham, Jim Mageean, Ingrid and Barrie Temple who will perform a selection of songs and poems from the book Coalfields of Song and Verse, a collection of coal mining songs and poems. Doors 1pm. Read more thecommonroom.org.uk/event/coalfi...

#Clash2026 completed. Some dodgy bits but class consciousness wins in the end!

UPDATE: Historians have not, in fact, got 1066 'all wrong'. www.marcmorris.org.uk/2026/03/did-...

📸 Ten years ago, Side presented the exhibition "Childhood: 1977–2016". As part of our digital archive work, the talk programme from that show is now online, with Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen and Peter Roberts, Liz Hingley, and Lesley McIntyre. 🔗 Explore: sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...

#Clash2026 ChXVII Oh dear, some rather questionable views on display - "of its time" as they say

Newcastle friends - Free folksong gig! Johnny Handle launching his new book "Coalfields of song and verse" at @thecommonroomgn.bsky.social Tuesday 24th Mar at 1pm with musical friends. Free, no tickets, just come along thecommonroom.org.uk/event/coalfi... Please share!

Lovely write up from Tony Henderson about 'Lost & Found - The McLaren Diaries of Thorpe Thewles', a film we produced with Thorpe Thewles History Group. The response has been overwhelming. 🤩 www.culturednortheast.co.uk/p/rescued-du...

How does Cuthbert fit into the story of Northumbria? | Peter Sagar

As well as Eid, today is also the feast of St Cuthbert, patron saint of Northumbria. Stained glass, Chester Cathedral

Eid Mubarak to those celebrating (don't tell Nige & Kemi that this is Woking in 1924) player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/wa...

#Clash2026 the Strike is hotting up - not very friendly to modern readers who may not know who (AJ) Cook is/was (& he now doesn't feature on the first page of Google 😮) or that F E Smith and Birkenhead were the same person. Early involvement of Daily Mail probably no surprise though

Who'd have thought it would be a "joke" about Welsh that would seem to be the final nail on the coffin of his lucrative side hustle? Bydded yr hen iaith barhau yn wir.

We maintain that there is NO SUCH THING as a boring record - just an archive that hasn't yet found its (probably very niche) researcher 📜

North East Museums believe that the Union Flag flown from Vice-Admiral Collingwood's Royal Sovereign flagship would become a "star exhibit" if it could be brought to the Discovery Museum permanently

It's about time somebody told the US its president has to go www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/w...

Potential acquisition for @northeastmuseums.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Strange how these people never seem to connect not paying tax with not spending on all the things they whine about that’s wrong with Britain www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Postgraduate student? Looking for a placement to enhance your research and improve your employability and impact skills - and have a funded allowance for that? The National Archives is advertising six studentships across different areas of our work: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/professional...

'Miss Hamilton driving' at Bolam Lake, Northumberland on 12th February 1911. Can you identify the car model? A Pressphotoman piece on a series of amateur 3D photos capturing a road trip around the North of England. pressphotoman.com/2026/03/16/r...

🚨Due to strike action at Northumbria University, March's InSide meeting has been postponed to one week later than previously advertised - rescheduled to 23rd March. Keen an eye on our social media incase of any further adjustments to the meeting schedule.🚨 🔗 sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...

Interesting that American shoe sizes are inflated by two, while women shrink two sizes compared with UK

#JobKlaxon Deputy Director @ducollections.bsky.social durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

New platform to give care-experienced and adopted people better access to their records announced by CoramBAAF & ARA today. The platform will make it easier for adopted & care-experienced people to find & access records relating to their adoption and time in care. www.archives.org.uk/news/new-pla...

The local rag is entirely compiled by AI or chimpanzees these days (jobs are at Tesco as in the pic)

This looks an interesting forthcoming exhibition @northeastmuseums.bsky.social Greart North Museum/Hancock www.culturednortheast.co.uk/p/exhibition...

Undermining the past. Strip-mining the future. How and why does the loss of collections of national heritage happen? Why does it matter? For whom?

📸 Join us! InSide is a monthly meet-up for photographers. A space to share work, ask questions, and build community. Next meeting: 🗓️ Mon 16 Mar, 6–8pm 📍Meet in the quad outside Northumberland Building, City Campus, Northumbria University, NE1 8SG 🔗 sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...

A quick reminder of all our offers at the moment, including our half-price sale! www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/acatalog/Hal...

One for @jtullock.bsky.social - a window in Harstad, Norway 🇳🇴

A negroni somewhere in the Arctic Circle (though the table map shows the Caribbean) #ConfinedCocktails

Have you seen this @lizzybarchivist.bsky.social?

“I just want these names and their sacrifice to be known. It is the least they deserve that they are remembered.” You know there's a way to do that without putting it up for sale - give it to an archive

We are sorry to hear of the death of former Labour Party archivist Stephen Bird, who has died aged 79. sslh.org.uk/2026/02/17/s...