Includes talks entitled or given to/at/for Marquis of Granby, Fred Reed 1901 - 1985, In Blackberry Time, Starting, Men's Meeting Blyth Rotarians, Spennymoor, N.E Parents, People's Theatre, Beamish, Kirklees Arts Council Playwriting Competition final event, St Peter's Church Fete, Mt Colley's Exhibition, Newfield School 50th anniversary, Lit & Phil, Durham Geography, Jesmond Miniories Festival 1980, Shildon Methodist Church, South Shields Flower show and Festival, TV Films Festival 1980, Northern Heart League, Aycliffe 1978, Holy Trinity, Castle Chare Community Arts Centre Mayday Party, Bradford Grammar School, Northern Group Authors Society, Equity, Burns Supper 1878, and Scouts.

Most photographs relate to trips in the UK or on the continent but some envelops contain photographs of family portraits.

There is no apparent topic.

Bundle of press cuttings concerning William B. Coulson, on the subjects of a memorial to him in Newcastle, and the Newcastle Cat and Dog shelter which he founded.

Concerning the death, funeral, and estate of Lady Layard, bequests to the British Museum and the controversy regarding the Layard Collection in Venice. Featuring British Italian and German newspapers, all with annotations. One cutting from the Daily Telegraph (dated 12th April 1960) is annotated in a different hand and relates to a Sotheby's auction of Nineveh marble.

Digital Object ID: TF-2022-11-04-010.

The Burman-Alnwick Collection was brought together by Dr. C.C. Burman and presented to Alnwick U.D.C. by his son, Joseph Burman, to later be deposited in the Library on long-term loan.It consists of books, pamphlets, broadsides and other material printed in Alnwick 1700-1917 and is chiefly a local history collection, containing such items as An address to 'the four and twenty' of the borough of Alnwick: on certain improvements in the plan of education, pursued in the borough school [1839], The Alnwick Mercury, Northumberland Advertiser, and entertaining miscellany (1854-1859), The Journal of the Northumberland Agricultural Society (1850) and the Alnwick Mechanics' Institute's Annual Report [18--]. It is also something of a literary collection, containing Alnwick printings of well-known tales such as The babes in the wood [18--] and The ballad of Chevy Chase (1800) as well as children's literature and educational tools like The child's battledore [c.1830], works by James Beattie and Thomas Percy and various chapbooks and ballads. Published sermons and letters also appear.