John Carr-Ellison and John Webster retired at the end of 2024 from the Trust when their five-year term of office came to an end. Among other things, John Carr-Ellison was involved along with Willy Browne-Swinburne in setting up and recruiting to the Patrons membership group of the Trust and has made financial contributions over the…

Nicola Whiteside of the Archive Service at Woodhorn has recently completed work on the Clayton Family papers and reveals some of the interesting details gleaned from the documents.

The Archives’ educational project Ashington to the Future, led by Jo March, has recently been completed

We are delighted to announce that the Sir James Knott Trust has offered us a generous grant of £30,000 to unlock more of “Northumberland’s Hidden Stories” through the Archives cataloguing project.  The offer is subject to the Archives Trust  finding match funding, and will be made available as we find matching contributions from elsewhere.  Cataloguing…

Moot Hall – the early home of the Archives Service in Newcastle A ‘Special Edition’ of the NACT newsletter was produced for members on the retirement of Sir Philip Mawer from the Chair of NACT at the end of 2023. The contents are listed below: Update on Grants Applications The Cataloguing Project Plan to Extend…

Foyle Foundation grant for purchase of scanning equipment.

The record offices fight a continual battle trying to keep on top of all the material being acquired for the collections, either on loan or by donation. Just to give you some idea of the scale of the workload, between 27 November 2023 and 20 February 2024 the Woodhorn office accessioned 38 new collections, including…

Sir Philip Mawer, who chaired NACT from its formation, has retired after four years.

Being surrounded by fascinating and varied historic documents is a daily perk for the archivists at Northumberland Archives, and one that is never taken for granted. But ensuring that this history – of the county and its people – survives and is available to researchers requires a not insignificant amount of work. This work can…

The Northumberland Healthcare study outlined in the PROJECTS page of the website is beginning to bear fruits with work underway in various areas. Project volunteers are researching maternity care in Northumberland with particular focus on Castle Hills Maternity Home, Berwick, and Mona Taylor Maternity Home, Stannington. They are also researching in less detail some of…