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Our latest blog about a collection that came into us from the family of a WWII soldier from the Northumberland Fusiliers: northumberlandarchives.com/2024/11/11/les… #RemembranceDay2024

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Still a few tickets left... Looks like it's going to be cold over the next few days, so all the more reason to stay indoors! ❄️⛄️

Great opportunity to find out about our The National Lottery Heritage Fund project: Life in a Northumbrian Manor Mini conference 23 Nov 2024, 10am-1pm Hexham Abbey For a free ticket: [email protected]

Due to scheduled maintenance our website and online catalogue will be unavailable on Sat 23 Nov 2024, 10am-1pm At all other times it can be found here: northumberlandarchives.com #archives #computers #publicserviceannouncement

It’s #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

We're really pleased to have been re-accredited! 🥳 A lot of work goes on behind the scenes to prepare for accreditation. Accreditation shows that we are meeting national standards and allows us to continue as a public place of deposit. nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-secto….

Northumberland is known for its brilliant landscape and tree, Sycamore Gap. From our archive, for #NationalTreeWeek, 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.

Day 8 – Northumberland Archives Theme: Openness Northumberland Archives brought on over 60 new volunteers and a project archivist to make manorial documents more accessible through transcribing, digitisation & engagement activities. nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-secto… 📷 Northumberland Archives

Woodhorn Museum will be closed in the new year for restoration work: 6 Jan 2025 - 21 Jan 2025 We will still be open as usual during that period. (See website for hours.) If you are coming to vist us, be extra careful when walking from the main gates to the #archives entrance.

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. Also findings from the documents to inspire your manorial research. eventbrite.co.uk/e/1142741062279 #archives The National Lottery Heritage Fund

As part of our The National Lottery Heritage Fund project "Everyday Life in a Northumbrian Manor" we offered small grants to our volunteer groups. Our Hexham group used theirs to organise a family history morning at the Abbey this Satuday. See poster for details. #archives #history #familyhistory

#HeritageTreasures found during our Everyday Life in a Northumbrian Manor project: List of #HolyIsland tenants absent from the manor courts in 1758. Mr Lewin couldn’t attend, as he was a prisoner in France! Fascinating insight into where residents travelled... The National Lottery Heritage Fund

Our manorial project is featured in one of these case studies - do take a look!

As part of our Digitally Disrupt the Archives project we invited Computer Gaming students from Northumbria Uni to the #archives. We showed them around and asked them to come up with ideas for games based on what they saw (and fed them 🍕.) Archivist simulator for the win!

Announcing two new learning resources on our website: KS2 - Animating the Manor northumberlandarchives.com/learn/animatin… Lifelong Learners - All Manor of Things northumberlandarchives.com/learn/all-mano… Developed as part of our The National Lottery Heritage Fund project "Everyday Life in a Northumbrian Manor"

Stop Press!🛑 The Woodhorn site will be CLOSED tomorrow due to the predicted adverse weather conditions. The archives will be closed and staff will work from home. We're very sorry for any inconvience caused to our researchers.

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

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.

"The Wooler Way of Life" a film made by young people as part of the Digitally Disrupt the Archives project will feature in the "Reimagining Place" screening. Do come along! The National Lottery Heritage Fund #wooler #northumberland #film #disruptthearchives