Dickson, Archer & Thorp was a solicitor’s practice set up in the late 18th Century in Alnwick. The practice had a wide client base from families with modest means to county families and the Dukes of Northumberland and the firm also dealt with criminal trials and provided advice to bodies such as the Overseers of the Poor. After the last partner, Reginald Thorp, died in 2003, over 400 archive boxes of documents were auctioned and Northumberland Archives was able to purchase the collection with grant funding.

Sue Wood, the head of collections at Northumberland Archives (Woodhorn) will be giving a talk on their Dickson, Archer...

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Cameron Robertson will give a talk about the Photo Centre Collection, now held by the Record Office, for the Berwick upon Tweed History Society.  It will take place at 7.30pm on Wednesday 19th December 2018 in the Parish Centre (Parade, Berwick).  Admission charge for non-members of the Society (£2).

When David Smith began his photo news agency in Berwick in 1951, demand for his work came thick and fast at a local and national level. An experienced journalist with a keen eye for a story, he captured a wide range of subjects, from a visiting celebrity to a runaway circus elephant, not to mention a host of wedding and...

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Katrina Porteous will give the Friends’ Autumn Lecture on Friday 23 November 2018, at 7.00pm in the Parish Centre (Parade, Berwick). Her title will be “”Can she Skyen a Mussel? Women and Fishing on the Northumberland Coast 1330-1950”.

All welcome.  Light refreshments.

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“The History, Culture and Politics of Berwick upon Tweed” is the title of Berwick and District Trades Union Council’s annual Day School for 2018, on Saturday 17 November.  The key-note lecture will by given by John Home Robertson, and the programme includes lectures by Linda Bankier, Jim Herbert, and Mike Fraser. 

For full details and booking arrangements, see the website at:

http://www.spanglefish.com/berwicktradesunioncouncil/index.asp?pageid=688167

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To mark the centenary of the end of the First World War, Berwick Record Office in conjunction with Berwick Town Council is running an event in the Guildhall, Berwick on the weekend of Saturday 10th/ Sunday 11th November. There will be displays, family activities and talks about Berwick and the surrounding area. The displays will include material on the Belgian refugees; Berwick’s contribution to the War on the Home and War Front; local poetry; information on the stories behind the names on St Andrews Wallace Green War Memorial; school work, and much more. On the Sunday, the town’s Book of Remembrance...

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