Follow this link for events happening this month
News
- The library in the Great North Museum will be closed from 20 December 2024 to 6 January 2025. Normal opening hours will resume after that.
- We have a new poster and flyer, giving details of our meetings up to the end of March 2025. Follow this link to see the flyer. Please feel free to pass this on to others, or to print and distribute. If anyone would like us to supply printed copies, please e-mail events@newcastle-antiquaries.org.uk.
- Just a reminder that the Society awards a small number of research grants each year, and the deadline for applications for 2025 grants is 30 November 2024. Follow this link for details and the application form on our website.
- Following our earlier news item about Durham’s blue plaque for Dame Rosemary Cramp, you can see a photo of it, and a copy of their press release, on the Parish Council website.
Books and Resources
- The 21st in the multi-language series of books on Roman frontier has been published, edited by David Breeze. Written by Radosaw Karasiewicz-Szczypiorski and Shota Mamuladze, The Roman Frontier in Georgia is published by Archaeopress, normal price £19.99, but with a 25% discount to our members. Cite the code FRE-offer-24, valid until 31 December 2024. (The discount is also available for other books in the Frontiers of the Roman Empire series).
- At the Feet of the Angel, Birtley: the growth of an Industrial Community in the Nineteenth Century, Robert Hull, published Durham County Local Hstory Society.
- We have recently bought several new books of direct interest to our members;
- David Breeze has edited a collection called Hadrian’s Wall in our Time, a celebration of 80 favourite views or places along the Wall nominated by experts.
- Cumbria, 1,000 years of Maps by William D. Shannon, is a compilation of that region’s cartographic history from 1050 to 2017.
- Our August lecture was given by Jessica Cox, author of Confinement, a study of pregnancy and childbirth in Victorian Britain, much of it based on original research within the Tyneside region.
- Ian Jackson’s Rocks at the Edge of the Empire is a fascinating account of how geology shaped the history of the Roman frontier.
See our online booklist for these and other books available for loan at the Library on Floor 2 of the GNM: Hancock.
Deaths
- Emeritus Professor Norman McCord died in October, at the age of 96. He was our longest-standing member, having joined in November 1949. Norman was Professor of History at Newcastle University. His interests encompassed social and economic history. He was also a pioneer of aerial photography in north-east England, and the McCord Centre for Landscape, at Newcastle University, is named after him. Details of his funeral have been circulated to those on our mailing list, and there will be a short obituary in the December News Bulletin and a longer one in the 2025 edition of Archaeologia Aeliana.
For biographical details of deceased members, going back to the earliest history of the Society, follow this link for the Biographical Directory.
