As part of the Berwick Literary Festival, Linda Bankier and Gilly Beckett are holding an event called “Crime & Creative Writing: using the archives for inspiration”. It takes place on Friday 18th October 2019 at 10.00am in the Parish Centre (Parade). Tickets £6.00. Crime is a perennial theme in literature but what inspires the writer? Linda Bankier will outline the archives sources available on this theme. Gilly Beckett and her Creative Writing group will read excerpts from their stories which were inspired by Berwick’s archives. More information about the Festival on
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A meeting to bring people up-to-date with progress on the Twixt Thistle and Rose project will be held on 5 July 2019 at 7.00pm in the Parish Centre, Berwick. It will give an opportunity for Friends and volunteers to hear what is going on in the archive recataloguing project, and to meet and talk with each other. All welcome.
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The Record Office has embarked on its Twixt Thistle and Rose Project, which aime to recatalogue the historic Berwick Borough Archives collection. It offers various volunteering opportunities including cataloguing, research, writing blogs, transcription, and conservation repackaging. Two meetings are being held to explain and to recruit volunteers, on Saturday 23 March and Tuesday 26th March, in the Record Office in the Library Building, Walkergate. Both meetings start at 2.00pm. If you would like to find out more, come along to one of them the organisers of the project.
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The Record Office is now producing two new regular blogs, both available on the Northumberland Archives website. “Twixt Thistle and Rose” is a project now under way to re-catalogue the Berwick Borough Archives, and its progress and discoveries are being reported in the blog here: https://www.northumberlandarchives.com/category/twixt-thistle-rose/ The other blog is “Berwick Advertiser – 100 Years Ago”, presenting a selection of items from the newspaper...
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A talk entitled “From Cocklawburn to Budle Bay: stories from the Peregrini project” will be given by Linda Bankier, Berwick Archivist, on Wednesday 16 January 2019 at 7.30pm. It will be a meeting of Berwick History Society, at the Parish Centre (Parade, Berwick). Free to members; visitors £2.
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