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News
- Our library at the GNM: Hancock will be closed for Christmas from Friday 22 Dec until Monday 8 Jan, when it will revert to normal opening hours (10.00-2.00, Mon to Thurs). If you wish to borrow books over Christmas and the New Year, please ensure you go into the library before 1.45 on Thursday 21 Dec.
- We have been experiencing some disruption to our website and e-mail system, thanks to an ‘update’ and server move by our provider. Our webmaster, Cornwell Internet, have been very busy putting things right, but small glitches are still occurring. If you experience any, please let us know at events@newcastle-antiquaries.org.uk so that they can be put right. Apologies for any inconvenience caused.
Books and Resources
- Pressphotoman.com is a website run by photographic historian Dr David Barber, who is researching the early years of the celebrated nineteenth-century photography firm W. &. D. Downey of South Shields, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and later London. It contains a wealth of material, including YouTube recordings of talks by Dr Barber and others.
Deaths
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Howard Cleeve, our Assistant Hon Librarian and a member of Council from 2014 died in July 2023. There will be an obituary to him in the December 2023 News Bulletin.
- The distinguished early medieval archaeologist and scholar, Professor Dame Rosemary Cramp, died on 27 April 2023. She first joined the Antiquaries in January 1958. Follow this link for a tribute to her from Durham University. There is also an obituary in our News Bulletin for June 2023, available on our website.
- His Honour Judge Christopher Walton, a former Recorder of Newcastle, a member since 2015, and a trustee, died on 9 April 2023. There is an obituary in our News Bulletin for June 2023, available on our website.
For biographical details of deceased members, going back to the earliest history of the Society, follow this link for the Biographical Directory.