NACT awarded grant by Platten Family fund.

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…

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…

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…

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…