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- A new flyer giving details of student membership is available. Please e-mail copies to student friends and relatives. We are also having copies printed; if you would like a batch of printed copies sent to you for distribution, e-mail events@newcastle-antiquaries.org.uk with your postal address and the number requested.
- Sue Ward is standing down as editor of our six-monthly News Bulletin after the December issue, having been doing that job for a mere 23 years! David and Denise Heslop are taking it on for the moment, but would welcome interest from others..
- Our member Andy Bogle is writing a biography of the Newcastle historian, lexicographer and businessman, Oliver Heslop (1842-1916) and is looking for someone to help with his research. For further details please contact andybogle82@gmail.com.
- Corpus Signorum Imperii Romani: Great Britain. Volume I, Fascicule 11: The Hinterland of Hadrian's Wall and Derbyshire, by Lindsay Allason-Jones is being published by the British Academy, hopefully before the end of 2022. It won’t be cheap, but we will ensure our library has a copy.
- The Great North Museum has announced that a Benin bronze in its collection is to be returned to Nigeria. The brass stave with a distinctive bird finial was looted from Benin City by the British military in 1897.
- The National Gallery is staging an exhibition of the work of Winslow Homer, the American artist who settled in Cullercoats in the 1880s. It will run from 8 September to 7 January, and include a number of Cullercoats works.
- Durham Record Office’s search room is closed to visitors while they pack up their archives in preparation for a move to a new history centre in 2023
- Histories of the Witch Trials is a research report on the links between the National Trust for Scotland’s properties and the Scottish witch trials between 1563 and 1736. It is available as a pdf, free to download.
- North East Heritage Library is ‘a community-driven initiative to document historic sites and stories’ in South East Northumberland, Tyneside and Wearside, mainly but not entirely on-line. Patrons can join at various levels, providing different packages of resources
- Our Data Protection Policy is now available on this website. As required under the General Data Protection Regulations, we are no longer sending e-circulars or electronic copies of the News Bulletin to those from whom we have not received specific consent to do so. Members who have not consented default to receiving items by post only. You can of course resubscribe to our e-mail lists at any time; simply send us an e-mail, including your name and (if known) your membership number.
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