Many believe the beginning of the Reiver time period was marked by the English invasion of Scotland of 1296. Which…
For centuries gypsy families have played a significant part in the community life of North Northumberland and the Borders. The…
While reading, “Border Raids and Reivers” by Robert Borland, I came across a term, ‘Book-a-bosom,” which I had never heard…
List of the 17 ‘Unruly Clans’ of the Scottish Border Although their were other Riding Families in the border lands…
by Wendy Tait Mayfield I think there are different views on this depending on what sources have been researched. Here…
480th anniversary of the raid on Hexham Gaol to free a catholic priest and some of their own…it was another…
As I was just reading through the ‘Border Papers’ it occurred to me that there are some facts about dates…
Border tartan, sometimes known as Northumbrian tartan, Shepherds’ Plaid or Border Drab, or Border check is a design used in…
Excerpt from “Chronicles of the Armstrong’s” by James Lewis Armstrong (1902); pages 84-85 “The feud of the Borderer was a…