The Lost Frontier of Burgh Marsh
By Crasterfarian Have you ever been to Bowness on Solway? It’s a lonely bleak road west from Carlisle to the end of Hadrian’s Wall and its… Read More »The Lost Frontier of Burgh Marsh
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The Fight for the Old North and the Seeds of Northumbria
By Thomas Bainbridge Through the study of history, the fog of the past sometimes clears so we may catch a glimmer of distant events, but never… Read More »The Fight for the Old North and the Seeds of Northumbria
The Geordie Outlaw: Butch Cassidy’s Tyneside Roots
By Thomas Bainbridge What might induce someone to leave their native homeland and travel thousands of miles across ocean and desert to a lawless and inhospitable… Read More »The Geordie Outlaw: Butch Cassidy’s Tyneside Roots
When Newcastle and Gateshead Burned: The Great Fire of 1854
By Thomas Bainbridge Many well know the story of the Great Fire of London: Ignited in a baker’s oven in Pudding Lane, the blaze spread across… Read More »When Newcastle and Gateshead Burned: The Great Fire of 1854
More Tales of Derring-Do: 3 Incredible Local Lads Who Won the VC
By Thomas Bainbridge Michael Heaviside Born in 1888, Mick Heaviside, initially from Gilesgate, Durham, moved with his family first to Kimblesworth, and then to Sacriston, where… Read More »More Tales of Derring-Do: 3 Incredible Local Lads Who Won the VC
Tales of Derring-Do: 3 North East Recipients of the VC
By Thomas Bainbridge The Victoria Cross has been attained 1553 times since its inception in 1856. Awarded for demonstrating extraordinary courage in the most desperate circumstances,… Read More »Tales of Derring-Do: 3 North East Recipients of the VC
Pictish and the Antonine ‘Wallsend’
by Kevin MacLean (Fortress of Lugh) youtube.com/@FortressofLugh x.com/FortressLugh The Gaelic language almost certainly developed along a continuous zone which stretched across both Ireland and Scotland… Read More »Pictish and the Antonine ‘Wallsend’
Eddie Chapman: Durham’s 007
By Thomas Bainbridge A daring, dashing secret agent: handsome, charismatic, as well-versed in the art of seduction as of espionage. You might think this is a… Read More »Eddie Chapman: Durham’s 007
Scotland’s Agincourt: The Battle of Neville’s Cross
By Thomas Bainbridge The battles of the Hundred Years’ War are well known: Crecy, Poitiers, and most famously Agincourt — in which a motley band of… Read More »Scotland’s Agincourt: The Battle of Neville’s Cross
Realignment with Rome: How the Date of Easter was Decided at Whitby in 664
By Thomas Bainbridge By the early Middle Ages, the schisms that are so common within Christianity had led to a wide divergence of practices and doctrines.… Read More »Realignment with Rome: How the Date of Easter was Decided at Whitby in 664