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  • Berwick’s Guild 21/03/2022

    Northumberland Archives Trust (NACT) has organised a series of evening online lectures by academic experts with regional links.  The lecture on Thursday 31 March 2022 is entitled “What did the Guild know? Politics and information in later C18th Berwick” and it will be given by Dr Ian Harris. He will explore the means by which information about London life and politics could be acquired in Berwick at a time when its ruling body, the Guild, had its own powers of government.

    The lecture is free via Zoom, though donations to NACT will be welcome, and it should be booked on the


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  • Archives at Alnwick Castle 20/03/2022

    Our Spring Lecture, “The Archives of the Duke of Northumberland at Alnwick Castle”, will be given on Friday 25th March 2022 by Christopher Hunwick. He is the archivist at Alnwick Castle where the archive contains the papers of the Percy family and the business papers of the Northumberland Estates, and his talk will highlight material relating to North Northumberland. 

    The event will start at 7.00pm in the Conference Room of the William Elder Building (56-58 Castlegate, Berwick-upon-Tweed, TD15 1JT).  Admission free.

    The lecture will be preceded by a short meeting to conduct the business of the Annual...


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  • History of the Parks 10/02/2022

    On Wednesday 2nd March 2022, a talk on “A history of Berwick’s Castle Parks and Flagstaff Park” will be given by Linda Bankier and Jim Herbert. It will take place in the Parish Centre (Parade) at 7.00pm.  Tickets cost £3.50 in advance from Berwick Visitor Centre (Walkergate), or £4.00 on the door.

    This is one of the winter events organised by the Friends of Castle Parks.


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  • Irregular marriages 08/12/2021

    A talk on “Irregular Border Marriages” will be given to Berwick History Society by Linda Bankier on Wednesday 15th December 2021.  It will take place in the Parish Centre (Parade) starting at 7.30pm.

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  • 100 years ago 28/10/2021

    A wealth of information about Berwick’s history can be found in the accumulating collection of blog posts in the series “Berwick Advertiser – 100 years ago” which is available on the Northumberland Archives website.  A new posting appears every fortnight, and each one contains interesting reports from the newspaper of a century ago, often enhanced by photographs and other illustrations from the Record Office collections. The whole blog collection can be searched by keywords for names or subjects.

     Click this link to see the latest postings:  


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