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List of Talk Reports

2023
January 2023
The History of Lindisfarne Castle
​Speaker: Nick Lewis
2022
January 2022
Criminal Spirits – Gin and Whisky Smuggling in the Borders.           
Speaker: Graeme Watson
February 2022
The Barony of Wooler and the Feudal Estates in North Northumberland in the 12th & 13th Centuries
​
Speaker: Derek Sharman
March 2022
‘Old Churches of Northumberland’
Speaker: Peter Regan
March 2022
GLHS outing to Howick Hall and gardens
April 2022
Iron Age Northumberland and the Excavations at Hunting Hall Lowick
Speaker: Kristian Pedersen
June 2022
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Glendale Local History Society visits the Excavations at Hunting Hall
September 2022
The archives of the Duke of Northumberland at Alnwick Castle
Speaker: Chris Hunwick
October 2022
The History of Berwick Barracks
Speaker: Rt. Rev. Dr Stephen Platten
November 2022
A Berwick Boyhood between the Wars: The Memoirs of Jock Wilson
Speaker: Dr Elizabeth Wilson
2021
January 2021
Wooler in World War II
A Power Point video by Alan Sture
February 2021
Geology and Industrial Archaeology of the coast of North Northumberland from Berwick to Holy Island
Elizabeth Devon
March 2021 ​
​(
GLHS Talk via Zoom)
Royal Mail Coach Routes through Northumberland and the Borders 1790-1840
Speaker: Ian Rawles
April 2021
(GLHS Talk via Zoom)
‘Holidays in the Cheviots: 1910-1915’ - the story behind the story                    
Speaker: Pam Ratcliffe
September 2021
Angels of the North            
Speaker: Dr Moira Kilkenny
September 2021
GLHS outdoor meeting on Holy Island
Speaker: John Woodhurst
October 2021
The Cult & Culture of Monasticism
Speaker: Margaret Kirby
October 2021
GLHS Walk to Kirknewton
​
Speaker: Sue Rogers
November 2021
Mediaeval Monasteries, Medicine and Care
Speaker: Sandra Gann
November 2021
GLHS guided walk: Wooler in World War II
Speaker : Alan Sture
December 2021
​The History of Glanton Pyke and its Gardens
Speaker: John Sawnson
2020
January 2020
Bamburgh ossuary & the Anglo-Saxon context
Jessica Turner
January 2020
​Bamburgh Ossuary Outing: 18th January 2020
Allan Colman
February 2020
The Greys of Howick
Peter Regan
March 2020
The Berwick Photo Centre
 Cameron Robertson

2019


January 2019

Deserted Medieval Villages

Allan Colman

February 2019
Wallington Hall and its Residents
Elizabeth Finch, a volunteer speaker from the National Trust.

March 2019
The Northern Pre-Raphaelite: William Bell-Scott and his Art

Michael Thomson

March 2019
Deserted medieval villages outing
A group of 12 members and visitors went on a tour of four villages in the Glendale area, lead by Allan Colman as a follow-up to his talk on deserted medieval villages in January.

​April 2019
The King's Shilling: Old English folk musicians

May 29th 2019
Wooler’s new oak tree ─ commemorating sacrifices made by many during WW1 


July 4th 2019
College Valley Memorial Event

September 11th 2019
The Prehistory of the Breamish Valley

September 21st 2019
Outing to the Breamish Valley

October 2019
Cross Border Crime in 18th and 19th centuries​
​
November 2019
POW CAMP 105 (WOOLER), including murder, music and reconciliation 

December 2019
Climate Change: past and future


2018

January 2018
Archaeology in the North-East
by Richard Carlton

February 2018
The university at Alnwick castle
by Wade Sherman

March 2018
The Alnwick and Cornhill Railway
Reverend Dr Stephen Plattern 
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April 2018
Outing to the Aln Valley Railway

April 2018
The last of the wandering minstrels: the life and work of Robert Gray, the Yetholm Poet
by Dr Graeme Watson 

October 2018
The Home Front in World War I – What we in the North East would have experienced
by Anthea Lang


October 2018
Northumberland Place Names
by Dr Jonathan West


November 2018
Trench Art in the North East
by Dr Andrew Marriott

December 2018
The History of Sugar & the Social Changes it has Influenced
Presented by Jean Findlay

2017

​January 2017
Can she bait a line? Fisher Women in Northumberland
by Katrina Porteous

February 2017
The Fortifications of Berwick upon Tweed + Outing
Derek Sharman

March 2017
‘Hens that want to crow’: Suffragists & Suffragettes of the North-east 1866–1918. Women’s struggle for votes and other campaigns in the 19th century.
Liz O’Donnell

​April 2017
Mary Eleanor Bowes
by Mr Antony Atkinson

September 2017
Farming in Glendale: 1800 to the present
Dr Ian Roberts


October 2017
Glendale in the 7th century 
by Max Adams

November 2017
Providing timber in World War 1: the role of North Northumberland
by Roger Jermy

December 2017
Mills, milling and bread making 
by David Harris-Jones

2016

January 2016
Zoo-archaeological material in Anglo-Saxon society: products of daily life
Animals bone discoveries and what they can tell us about daily life in that era.
David Constantine

February 2016
The Greys' Tomb at Chillingham

Derek Cutts

April 2016
The Ancient Craft of Laying a Hedge
Mike Wade

14th September 2016
Freemen of Berwick
Captain Jim Evans

October 2016
Outing to the Ouseburn Valley and the Victoria Tunnel

October 2016
The Romantic North: picturesque landscape before photography
Peter Regan

November 2016
The Origins of the Post Office and the Hobby of Philately
Tony Walker


December 2016
Wooler Weather – Past, Present and in the Future
Allan Colman

2015

January 2015
Anecdotes from the Napoleonic Wars
Bob Harrison


February 2015
Visit to RAF Boulmer

February 2015
Sir Edward Grey and the "War to end all Wars"
Mike Fraser

April 2015
Street names of Newcastle

Neil Munro

October 2015 
Biddlestone Chapel & the Selby family
Speaker: Tony Henfry


11th November 2015
War time laws in Northumberland
Philip Rowett

December 2015
Vita vinum est: life is wine. Romans and their wine.

2014

List of Archive Material held in Society Archives

January 2014
Clothing & History: An Anglo-Saxon and Viking perspective

Paula Constantine

February 2014
North East War Memorials

Janet Brown

March 2014
From Barrow to Bunker

Philip Abramson

April 2014
Press Gangs

April 2014
Visit to Barmoor Estate

April 2014
Visit to MoD Otterburn Ranges

June 2014
Round County Day
21st June 2014
Farming and the Railways in Glendale 18th to 20th Centuries

September 2014

North-East airfields – aviation history 1910–2003
Alan Fendley

A predilection for steep banks - the Morpeth to Coldstream turnpike road
Derek Cutts


November 2014
The Lindisfarne Gospels: their making and meaning
Ross Wilkinson

December 2014
History of Northumbrian Music
A talk illustrated with music by Alistair Anderson

December 2014

Equal on the turf
Charlie Brown

December 2014
The Alnwick Freemen & The Dukes - 1757 to date
A talk by Cliff Pettit


2013

September 2013
Barmoor Estates
John Nolan

October 2013
England's Rough Wooing
Isabel Gordon

November 2013
Old Alnwick
Adrian Ions

December 2013
Rights of Way in Northumberland
Sue Rodgers

December 2012
A history of bee-keeping & tales from Chain Bridge Honey
A talk by William Robson


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