A meeting to bring people up-to-date with progress on the Twixt Thistle and Rose project will be held on 5 July 2019 at 7.00pm in the Parish Centre, Berwick.  It will give an opportunity for Friends and volunteers to hear what is going on in the archive recataloguing project, and to meet and talk with each other.  All welcome.

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Berwick Museum & Art Gallery is open again for the 2019 season (until 30th September) with its standard opening times: Wednesday-Sunday, 11.00am – 4.00pm.  In addition, it will be open on Bank Holiday Mondays, and every day during the English school holidays (same hours).

Free admission for members of FBDMA.

For other details, see the Museums Northumberland website.

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Berwick Museum & Art Gallery will be playing host to a special visitor on the afternoon of Saturday 4th May 2019 at 2.00pm – the historical novelist Patricia Finney will be launching her new book “A Suspicion of Silver” at the venue. The book is the latest in a series of novels based on the adventures of the Elizabethan nobleman Sir Robert Carey.

Free admission. In Berwick Museum & Art Gallery, The Clock Block, Berwick Barracks, TD15 1DG.  Tel: 01289 309 538.

“Anyone who has read any history at all about the reign of Queen Elizabeth I has...

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Dr Catherine Kent gives two talks about early Berwick during April 2019.  On Monday 8th April she speaks to Norham & Ladykirk Local History Society on “Early Berwick”, at 7.30pm in Norham Village Hall.

On Wednesday 17th April she speaks on “An English Broch La Roundele, and the beginnings of Berwick” to Berwick HIstory Society, at 7.30pm in the Parish Centre, Berwick (following the AGM at 6.45pm).

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The Record Office has embarked on its Twixt Thistle and Rose Project, which aime to recatalogue the historic Berwick Borough Archives collection.  It offers various volunteering opportunities including cataloguing, research, writing blogs, transcription, and conservation repackaging.

Two meetings are being held to explain and to recruit volunteers, on Saturday 23 March and Tuesday 26th March, in the Record Office in the Library Building, Walkergate. Both meetings start at 2.00pm.  If you would like to find out more, come along to one of them the organisers of the project.

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