Past Projects
Josephine Butler Society Awards Grant to NACT
The grant will allow work to continue of the development of a LEARN module
Read MoreCommunity Foundation Award Grant for the Phipps Collection
The Trust is delighted to announce the award of a grant from the Community Foundation for work on the Phipps of Barmoor collection.
Read MoreStrathmartine Trust Awards Grant for Work on the Atkinson & Marshall Papers
Grant will allow work on these interesting documents.
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 MoreArchives Service Awarded Grant by Lord Crewe Charity
Nathaniel Lord Crewe (1633-1721) was Bishop of Durham from 1674 until his death. In 1700 he married Dorothy Forster of Bamburgh and in 1709 purchased Forster family lands in Bamburgh and Blanchland, Northumberland. Under the terms of Lord Crewe’s will his Northumberland and Durham estates were left in trust with the income to be distributed…
Read MoreBlyth’s Industrial Heritage
The premise of the project is to work with five primary schools in Blyth to explore the town’s industrial history and use this to design how Blyth might look 100 years in the future, culminating in a co-created exhibition.
Read MoreHarriet Carr: Artist and Traveller
Background and aims of the project. In the 17th and 18th centuries it was usual for sons of wealthy families to undertake ‘The Grand Tour’, a tour around Europe. The purpose of the Tour was to educate travellers about the art and culture of the classical period and the Renaissance and to introduce them to…
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