By Crasterfarian Being born and bred in Craster, one of our endless playgrounds was the coastline in and around Howick, the bathing house or ‘Tully’s Hoose’… Read More »The Little Harbour That Helped Change Britain
By Crasterfarian When most people think of Craster they picture kippers, the harbour and Dunstanburgh Castle. Few realise that for many years it was also a… Read More »Craster Harbour Loading Bins — A Forgotten Feat of Engineering
By Crasterfarian “Oh, I’d love to see something like that.” That’s what you hear when you post a stunning relic of any description from around the… Read More »The Ghosts of Rome Among Us
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
By Crasterfarian I’ve written a couple of pieces lately on the Golden Age of Northumbria, and I’m trying to stitch it all together into a series… Read More »Oswald: From The Cross to The Ash Tree
By Crasterfarian A ‘Mammy Joan’s Story’ Craster 1942 One of my greatest pleasures is to sit with my mam and talk. We talk about everything —… Read More »When the Mattress Went Wavy
By Crasterfarian I’ve written a few pieces lately on my interpretation of events in Bernicia around 630 AD, or “The Golden Age of Northumbria” as it… Read More »When Wyrd is Woven
By Thomas Bainbridge Saint Aidan of Lindisfarne (d. 651) is a seminal figure in Northumbrian history. Born most likely in rural Ireland, Aidan became a monk… Read More »An Irish Monk and Northumbrian Saint: The Story of Aidan
By Crasterfarian I mek nee wonder people get lost up here, mind, it’s a canny place to lose yourself. But howay, three places that sound almost… Read More »The Fyrd and the -ingham Settlements
By Crasterfarian The more I read and write about history, the more I understand that what we are left with in today’s landscape are simply ghosts… Read More »Joining The Dots On Our Landscape
