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Branch Meetings
Click on the link to the branch to find out more information about the time, location and future meetings
Date | Subject of Talk | Speaker | Branch |
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5th March 2024 @ 1:30pm | Basil Bunting | Tony Stephenson | North Tyneside |
6th March 2024 @ 1:30pm | The Newbiggin Genealogy Project-The Biggest Community Family Tree in the World? | Hilton Dawson | Wansbeck |
6th March 2024 @ 2pm | Fenham Hall and its Legacy, 1740-2024 | Mike Greatbatch | Newcastle |
9th March 2024 @ 1:15pm | Fat Cows and Railway Lines: The links between agricultural development and industrialisation in North-East England | Dr Winifred Stokes | London |
13th March 2024 @ 7pm | How I successfully solved a genealogical problem dating from the late seventeenth century | Keith Bishop | NE Roots(PM) |
14th March 2024 @ 7pm | AGM & Members’ Forum – Memories of Schoolday | – | Tynedale |
18th March 2024 @ 10am | Wilson Hepple – a local artist | Brian Waters | NE Roots(AM) |
19th March 2024 @ 1pm | Herring Lasses | Chris Killen | Blyth |
20th March 2024 @ 1:30pm | A TREASURE OF MEMORIES | JULIAN HARROP (BEAMISH) | South Tyneside |
20th March 2024 @ 1pm | Seaham Harbour -pre Londonderry’s to the present day | Alan Smith | Belmont Durham |
27th March 2024 @ 1pm | Introduction to DNA for Family History & Some Personal Experiences | Prof. John Heckels | Consett |
2nd April 2024 @ 1:30pm | A Miner’s Life | Steve Allerdyce | North Tyneside |
3rd April 2024 @ 1:30pm | ‘My Family and the Military’: records, memorabilia and artefacts. | Workshop Session | Wansbeck |
3rd April 2024 @ 2pm | Newcastle in the Swinging 1960s and 1970s | Freda Thompson | Newcastle |
10th April 2024 @ 7pm | Irish Ancestors | Joyce Jackman | NE Roots(PM) |
11th April 2024 @ 7pm | The Newbiggin by the Sea Genealogy Project | Hilton Dawson | Tynedale |
15th April 2024 @ 10am | Irish Ancestors | Joyce Jackman | NE Roots(AM) |
16th April 2024 @ 1pm | Three heroes of the sea | David Hastings | Blyth |
17th April 2024 @ 1:30pm | BOBBY THOMPSON – THE LITTLE WASTER | BEN HADDON | South Tyneside |
17th April 2024 @ 1pm | The North East Coast Exhibition | John North | Belmont Durham |
24th April 2024 @ 1pm | Women of the Durham Coalfield in the 19th Century | Margaret Hedley | Consett |
6th July 2024 @ 1:15pm | The Building of Durham Viaduct | David Butler | London |
Annual General Meeting
Date | Location | Talk | Details |
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Saturday 9th September 2023 10.30am for 11am | North Shields Library – see North Tyneside Branch for location | Followed by a talk by Carolyn Ball, County Archivist, on the new archives in Durham | Details have been published in the Autumn Journal – pages 101 – 105 |
Provisional Saturday 13th July 2024 |
South Shields Museum | Details will be published in the Journal |
Regional Events
This is a list of events that are happening in Northumberland or Durham, or that the Society is attending. They have not been organised by the Society and the Society is unable to provide further information about them. Anyone seeking further information should contact the organisers direct.
Date | Location | Event | Details |
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Online Exhibition | Durham University Library Website | Prince Bishop Cuthbert Tunstall | Durham University Library has asked the Society to share this link to their new online exhibition about Prince Bishop Cuthbert Tunstall: See here for more details |
22nd – 24th March 2024 | Hawick, Scottish Borders | Hawick Reivers Festival | See here for more details |
Zoom Presentation by County Durham Forum for History and Heritage
Our Society is affiliated with the CDFHH, and members of our Society can attend their zoom presentations.
See CDFHH Website for more information on the group.
Details on how to connect to the meeting will be emailed to members.
If you have not received instructions before the day of the meeting, please email membership@ndfhs.org.uk with your name and membership number.
Date | Subject of Talk | Speaker |
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9th Jan | Cramlington Train Wreckers | Ed Waugh |
20th Feb | Secret Darlington | Chris Lloyd |
12th Mar | The Tyne Brewery Site | Richard Annis |
17th Sep | The Woman in Question | Tony Nicholson |
1st Oct | Durham County & its Turnpike Roads | David Butler |
19th Nov | Tony Blair | Anthony Atkinson |
Last updated: 2nd March 2024