On Sunday 8th March 2020, as part of a conference marking International Women’s Day, Linda Bankier will give a talk on the portrayal of women in Berwick Archives. The venue is Horncliffe Village Hall:  time to be confirmed.

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On Monday 10th February 2020 a talk on the Twixt Thistle & Rose project will be given to Lowick Heritage Group by Linda Bankier.  She will describe what this cataloguing project is revealing about the contents of Berwick Borough Archives.  Talk starts at 7.30pm in Lowick Village Hall.

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As part of the Berwick Literary Festival, Linda Bankier and Gilly Beckett are holding an event called “Crime & Creative Writing: using the archives for inspiration”.  It takes place on Friday 18th October 2019 at 10.00am in the Parish Centre (Parade). Tickets £6.00.

Crime is a perennial theme in literature but what inspires the writer? Linda Bankier will outline the archives sources available on this theme.  Gilly Beckett and her Creative Writing group will read excerpts from their stories which were inspired by Berwick’s archives.

More information about the Festival on

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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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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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