Programme of Events 2025/26

23rd September 2025

The Forgotten Northumbrian Appeaser: Viscount Runciman’s Mission to Czechoslovakia in 1938

Speaker Michael Fraser 


28th October 2025

M.R.G. Conzen’s Study of Alnwick: The lasting legacy

Speaker Dr M. Barke

This will be a joint meeting with Alnwick Civic Society


25th November 2025

The History, Mystery, Meaning and Beauty of Northumberland’s 18th Century Gravestones

Speaker Mark Hatton


27th January 2026

Newbiggin Pharmacy; Alnwick’s Chemist with magnificent furnishings, where they came from and where they are now

Speaker Phil Huntley


24th February 2026

Searches for Churches on Lindisfarne; An Historical Re-Evaluation of the Early Medieval Monastery resulting from Recent Archaeology on the Heugh

Speaker John Woodhurst


24th March 2026

Tin Tabernacles; A Victorian story of Local tin churches

Speaker Sandra Gann

This meeting will be preceded by the AGM, which will start at 7pm.


28th April 2026

The Story of Alnwick; From Inception to the Post War Period

Speaker Nick Lewis