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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On Wednesday 27th March 2019, Linda Bankier will give a talk on “The Ford Estate at the time of the Waterfords” to the North Sunderland & Seahouses Local History Society.  The venue is St. Paul’s Church Hall in North Sunderland, and the talk will start at 7.00pm.

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The FBDMA Spring lecture and AGM will be held on Friday 15th March 2019, in the Parish Centre, Berwick, at 7.00pm.  The AGM will last for about 30 minutes, after which light refreshments will be served.

The lecture, beginning around 7.45pm, will be given by Rachel Clamp, speaking about “Women and the Plague in Newcastle, c.1570-1640”.

All welcome.

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A talk entitled “From Cocklawburn to Budle Bay: stories from the Peregrini project” will be given by Linda Bankier, Berwick Archivist, on Wednesday 16 January 2019 at 7.30pm.  It will be a meeting of Berwick History Society, at the Parish Centre (Parade, Berwick).  Free to members; visitors £2.

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Dickson, Archer & Thorp was a solicitor’s practice set up in the late 18th Century in Alnwick. The practice had a wide client base from families with modest means to county families and the Dukes of Northumberland and the firm also dealt with criminal trials and provided advice to bodies such as the Overseers of the Poor. After the last partner, Reginald Thorp, died in 2003, over 400 archive boxes of documents were auctioned and Northumberland Archives was able to purchase the collection with grant funding.

Sue Wood, the head of collections at Northumberland Archives (Woodhorn) will be giving a talk on their Dickson, Archer...

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