Posts by John Webster
Trust’s Third Annual Report charts further progress
Annual report for year ending March 2023 now available
Read MoreHidden Stories in the Archives
![Letter from James Loch, Dunrobin Castle, Sutherland, Scotland, to A[nthony] Marshall - 27 August, 1829](https://northumberlandarchivestrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Marshal-Atkinson-NRO-4433-Bundle-2-Letter-27-Aug-1829-pg-001-846x1024.jpg)
A glimpse of some of the content hidden within uncatalogued collections.
Read MoreStrathmartine Trust Awards Grant for Work on the Atkinson & Marshall Papers
Grant will allow work on these interesting documents.
Read MoreTrust’s Official Launch at County Hall, Morpeth
The Trust, started during Covid, has finally been able to hold a public launch – with not one but two events on the 26th June 2023. The Northumberland Archives Charitable Trust marked the occasion with celebrations of its work to date, raising money to save and analyse historical records, documents and images for future generations.…
Read MoreCommunity Foundation Grant for Work on Clayton Family Papers
The Northumberland Archives Trust is delighted to announce the success of an application for a grant to fund the cataloguing of papers formerly belonging to the Clayton family. EDF Energy Green Rigg Wind Farm Community Benefit Fund, administered through the Community Foundation, have made a grant of £3,372. The grant will be used to add…
Read MoreAtkinson & Marshall Papers and the Highland Clearances in Scotland
Material of trans-national interest has been discovered amongst documents relating to 19th century Northumberland farmers, Atkinson and Marshall. From 1805, Atkinson & Marshall began to lease land on the Sutherland Estate eventually leasing more than 100,000 acres. Introduction of large-scale sheep farming resulted in the mass eviction of tenants, a movement that became known as…
Read MoreA New Home for Berwick’s Record Office?
Berwick Record Office may have new home in redeveloped Barracks
Read MoreArchive Trust Publishes its Second Annual Report
The Trust has recently published its Second Annual Report, charting the Trust’s development during the year to the end of March 2022. You can access the Report through the following link below. The report shows that, in spite of the challenges posed by the pandemic, the Trust has continued to make steady progress in fulfilling…
Read MoreThe Reading Room
The Reading Room, a new facility available to the public.
Read MoreNorthumberland’s Hidden Stories – A Major Cataloguing Project
The Northumberland Archives Service holds many collections from families and estates, the exact content of which is often unknown due to a lack of staff to undertake the time-consuming exercise of cataloguing all the material. The records concerned are not just of interest to the families who owned the estates but to all those who…
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