Jane Pikett meets the conservationists looking after Hexham Abbey, founded AD 674.

Stephen Roberts chronicles the lives of the brothers (and sister) Dalziel behind the famed Victorian wood engraving business.

John Evans chronicles some of the folk customs common to the region, particularly during Christmas and New Year.

John Grundy gives thanks for the beauty and tranquillity of Brinkburn Priory.

Stephen Roberts considers the Second Boer War and the region’s memorials to the fallen of that conflict.

Stephen Roberts profiles Mark Akenside (1721-70), poet, physician, disputant, and a name long familiar to the people of Newcastle.

As we welcome the new Carolean era, Stephen Roberts ooks back to King Charles III’s Hanoverian ancestors.

Stephen Roberts profiles that other great railway engineer and collaborator with the Stephensons, Sir Daniel Gooch (1816-89).

It might be tiny, but the village of Edlingham is home to
three remarkable properties, as John Grundy reveals.

NM Lyons profiles the character actor Henry Travers, It’s A Wonderful Life’s guardian angel and a son of Prudhoe.

Next time you take a winter walk up The Cheviot, spare a thought for the 18th century writer Daniel Defoe, says Martin Dufferwiel.

John Grundy sets out to look at the history of Ponteland, only to be distracted by St Mary’s church.

Stephen Roberts profiles the bookbinder, pioneer in typography and friend of the Arts and Crafts movement, Thomas Cobden-Sanderson (1840-1922).

Rob Scott remembers the 1926 General Strike and the imprisonment of eight Cramlington miners for the derailing of a passenger train.

Michael Lyons recalls the efforts of local shepherds to rescue the crew of a WWII aircraft which crashed in the Cheviots.

Stephen Roberts presents some first-hand testimonies of Royal Northumberland Fusiliers in wartime.

Ian Kerr recalls the wartime valour of five young men who escaped German-occupied Norway to head to Holy Island.

John Sadler and Bev Palin recount the Battle of Otterburn, August 1388.