Posts by venue: The Archives

A fascinating set of correspondence is uncovered at Tyne and Wear Archives

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Posted by administrator on September 12, 2011     Permalink     Comments (3)

One of the reasons I was so excited to work on the ‘We Mak’em’ Sunderland Shipbuilding archives project was the opportunity it gives me to catalogue and make accessible large quantities of unlisted documents that have never been available to… Read more

Anglian Lives: Alan Partridge (2003)

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Posted by administrator on September 9, 2011     Permalink     Leave a comment

Available to view on BFI Mediatheque. Long before Ricky Gervais brought David Brent to life in ‘The Office’, Steve Coogan had already created a similar toe-curlingly embarrassing character in the one and only Alan Partridge. This ‘mockumentary’ looks back at… Read more

Question : How much does it cost to burn a witch? Answer : £15 19s 2d

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Posted by administrator on August 26, 2011     Permalink     Comments (3)

We know this because in the Archives are stored the Newcastle Chamberlains’ accounts for the years 1508 until 1835.   The entry we looked at read…”bill of charges for the wiches for 2 weekes ending the 23th (sic) of August 1650 and other… Read more

Family History in Tyne and Wear

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Posted by administrator on August 22, 2011     Permalink     Comments (17)

What’s Your Story? Discovering family histories in Tyne and Wear; sharing ordinary peoples’ family histories Watching the new series of the BBC’s ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’ has taken on added significance in the history team office at Discovery… Read more

Recently discovered photograph albums of Austin and Pickersgill ships

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Posted by administrator on August 16, 2011     Permalink     Comments (17)

The two most popular types of shipbuilding records held by the Archives are without doubt ships plans and photographs. I was therefore very excited in early August when I discovered a series of photograph albums of twenty one ships built… Read more