Northumbrian Gathering is back!
Yes, the Gathering is taking place in 2023, with the usual competitions for written, spoken, and sung Northumbrian. Entries close on 18th. The full details are on the PDF – … Read More
Category: Communication
New Newsletter Editor.
We have a new editor for the Newsletter, Damian Hall
Reporting of the Annual Lecture
The Morpeth Herald reported this year’s annual Bibby Memorial Lecture on 13th October. Their coverage is below.
Bibby Lecture given by Warren Maguire
This year’s annual lecture was delivered by Dr Warren Maguire, of Edinburgh University. He took as the basis of his talk Thomas Wilson’s famous poem The Pitman’s Pay and demonstrated how … Read More
New CD Titles in the shop!
4 new CD’s are available in the Society’s shop. All are collections of songs and tunes from North east England and beyond. More details of the artists are at … Read More
New Chairman at NLS
At last nights Annual General meeting, A new Chairman, John Davidson, was elected following the stepping down of Stuart Lawson. John paid tribute to the sterling work done by Stuart … Read More