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 MoreCommunity Foundation Award Grant for Ashington Schools Project
NACT awarded grant by Platten Family fund.
Read MoreStrathmartine Trust Awards Grant for Work on the Atkinson & Marshall Papers
Grant will allow work on these interesting documents.
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…
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 MorePhoto Centre Berwick
The Berwick Record Office and the Friends of Berwick & District Museum and Archives jointly purchased this collection in 2012. It contains over a million negatives which document all aspects of life in North Northumberland and the Scottish Borders. It covers the period from 1951 when David Smith founded his photojournalism business until 2012 when…
Read MoreNorthumberland Healthcare
Healthcare Project Aim of the project. This project will look at healthcare in Northumberland prior to the establishment of the NHS in 1948. It will have two main strands: What we will do. Information will be sought from many sources from the early 1900s until the 1970s, including surviving minutes and other records from Northumberland…
Read MoreGeneral Fund
Protecting our heritage The Northumberland Archives Trust’s aim is to improve access for everyone to Northumberland’s superb collection of archives and historic records. It does this by raising funds to ensure that primary source material is saved from destruction, collected, catalogued and digitised so that it becomesavailable to all. The Trust also works with the…
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