Northumberland & Durham historical docs

Historical documents of Northumberland and Durham.
90% of history presented on social media should include an implicit “probably”
Personal acc is @Dave_H_King

[Northumberland & Durham historical docs @n_docs]

Ridley of Willimoteswick, senior branch of the Ridleys of N'land, faded into obscurity in the 17c. Even the pedigrees are vague
This Chancery case shows the level of debt accumulated over 3 generations from Q. Elizabeth's time, & clarifies the pedigrees https://t.co/jqiOLkVBCC

[North Ages @NorthAges]

Máel Coluim III, king of Scots, his son Edward and many other Scots were slain in a Norman ambush beside the river Aln #OTD in 1093. Morel, castellan of Bebbanburg (Bamburgh), reportedly killed the ruler. A heartbroken Queen Margaret died just three days later. 📸Bodleian Library

[Eleanor Parker @ClerkofOxford]

'It fell about the Martinmas,
When nights are long and mirk...'

With winter looming, the dark nights of Martinmas could also be a time for ghost stories, such as the eerie old ballad 'The Wife of Usher's Well' https://t.co/sBe5xYCL0P

https://t.co/zDybLvAr4e

[Northumberland & Durham historical docs @n_docs]

John “Jock” Carr-Ellison and the Unknown Women of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry 
https://t.co/jsyMlLszi2

[John McCafferty @jdmccafferty]

10 Nov 1618: John Bramhall m. Eleanor Collingwood née Hally #otd She was widow of a clerical colleague - a pattern typical of many married clergy. Bramhall would go on to be bishop of #Derry and archbishop of #Armagh. His surviving letters to her are affectionate. (SSC)

[Brian Groom @GroomB]

Evicted family at Derrybeg, County Donegal, Ireland, late 1880s, photo by Robert French, Irish photographer, 1841-1917 (Lawrence Collection).

[Northumberland & Durham historical docs @n_docs]

@JHCPAL Yep, used to regularly go for point of lay pullets.

[Northumberland & Durham historical docs @n_docs]

@alastairrmt @GroomB Snap!

[Dr Francis Young @DrFrancisYoung]

The Derwent Pencil Museum seems so benign until you realise pencil prices were artificially controlled, OPEC-like, by the sinister owners of graphite mines

[Northumberland & Durham historical docs @n_docs]

@JHCPAL You should visit the remains of Featherstone Camp one day (if you haven’t already) well worth the effort & can be combined with a visit to Lambley Viaduct.
Unfortunately can’t find the photos I had.

[The Story Durham @TheStoryDurham]

Silver Street in Durham was the scene of a major fire 179 years ago today, on Tuesday 9 November 1847. Our digitised copy of the Durham Advertiser from the Friday of that week reports on the fire and for many years referred to this as the “Great Fire in Silver Street”.

[Brian Groom @GroomB]

The Northern Rebellion began on this day 1569. Led by earls of Westmorland and Northumberland, it sought to depose Elizabeth I and to replace her with Mary, Queen of Scots (who would marry the Duke of Norfolk) and restore the Catholic faith as the faith of England.

[North Ages @NorthAges]

William of St Calais was nominated to succeed the murdered Walcher as bishop of Dunholm (Durham) #OTD in 1080. William’s experience as abbot of St Vincent, Le Mans, in the politically volatile county of Maine, France, made him a smart choice.

[Northumberland & Durham historical docs @n_docs]

@northumbriana @VarnighHyem @pd_lynch Yes, don’t know what it’s like now, but knew folks who told me about many families travelling Newbiggin/Ashington to Sunderland in the 20s/30s - must have been quite a trek before 🚗

[Northumberland & Durham historical docs @n_docs]

@neheritagelib Always surprised at just how much brown field there is around there. Ideal for major housing development and possible metro extension around the riverside, but I guess there’s no appetite for the remediation works that would be required?

[North Yorkshire Archives @nyccarchives]

Check out this contemporary copy in the Hutton of Marske archive, of the anonymous letter warning Lord Monteagle about the #gunpowderplot to blow up Parliament in November 1605 #guyfawkes #bonfirenight [ZAZ] 🎇

[Brian Groom @GroomB]

Backstreet, Jarrow, 1937, photo by Bill Brandt.

[Brian Groom @GroomB]

Lancashire was accepted as a county only when a royal exchequer official, in the audit for 1181-2, wrote out a separate parchment under the heading Lancastra quia non erat ei locus in Northumberland: ‘Lancaster, because there is no place for it in Northumberland.’

[Dr David Barber 💙 @barbed50]

As revealed by @northumbriana in his excellent new book 'Howay The Lads!' @NUFC ...

The Magpies 1910 FA Cup victory parade featured a bagpipe band.

A Pressphotoman piece on a Newcastle photographer from Scotland and his pipe band postcard portrait.

https://t.co/w1Eheaawz7

[Uppsala Books @UppsalaBooks]

You've heard of fellowship and friendship, but what is 'beer-ship'? Spoiler: it existed in Old English!

[Dr Francis Young @DrFrancisYoung]

The supposition that AI can conduct historical research is based on the idea that ‘everything is online now’, and I hate to break it to you but it most certainly is not… Almost any historian, from medieval to modern, will tell you that the vast majority of all historical sources in the world exist offline, untranscribed and untranslated