Tag Archives: local newspapers

Beware the servants

Collections & Objects   Local History   Social History   The Archives
Posted by administrator on March 20, 2017     Permalink     Comments (1)

As readers of murder mysteries well know, when a body is found in a large country house it’s usually the butler that did it. While this is just a crime fiction cliché, research that I recently carried out at North… Read more

‘Saved by a Cat’ – a feel good story for Christmas

Military History   Social History   The Archives   World War 1
Posted by administrator on December 22, 2015     Permalink     Leave a comment

A few months ago I spent a morning at North Tyneside Local Studies Library, with my colleague Sarah Younas, looking through old editions of the Shields Daily News. We were searching for the stories behind some of the First World War… Read more

Bungling burglars and sweet-toothed thieves

Collections & Objects   Discovery Museum   Local History   Social History   The Archives
Posted by administrator on October 16, 2015     Permalink     Comments (2)

Over the past six months I’ve been popping into the local studies libraries in North Shields and South Shields to look through local newspapers from the early Twentieth Century. The reason for this has been my fascination with one particular… Read more