Setting up a new charity is a considerable challenge at any time. Doing this in the middle of a global pandemic is even more so. The Trust’s Chair, Sir Philip Mawer, tells the story of the first challenging year. When the Trustees of the Northumberland Archives Trust met for the first time towards the end…

Now that the Trust is up and running, and with a website to allow contact with the outside world, it highlights our need for volunteers to help publicise the work of the Trust using modern means of communication. Do you have experience of social media platforms like FaceBook, Twitter, Instagram, and WhatsApp that you could…

We are all familiar with the rapid changes that have taken place over the years in the world of digital technology. How many people can still access data on a floppy disc, and what about documents and spreadsheets from the 1980s produced using Word Perfect or SuperCalc, just two of the many formats developed over…