Throughout our summer season, the Grace Darling Museum are hosting a series of talks by experts on a variety of topics from maritime and natural history to archaeology. Included in the cost of museum admission, these talks will take place at 2pm in the Lantern Room on Sundays, lasting approximately 45 minutes plus time for questions.
Topic: Fishing – A Living Tradition: the continuity and changes in fishing tradition on the Northumberland coast from 1300 to the present
Speaker: Katrina Porteous
Mini biography: Katrina Porteous is a poet, historian and broadcaster who lives on the Northumberland coast. Her 1990 publication, Beadnell – a History in Photographs marked the beginning of her work with the fishing community of the area. Since then she has published an oral history of fishing, The Bonny Fisher Lad, and five volumes of poetry, much of which draws on her work in the fishing community. Most recently she collaborated with Dr Adrian Osler on a paper on the medieval origins of fishing in the area, published in The Mariner’s Mirror, February 2010. Katrina has also been involved in many school and community projects; she edited the Old Parish of Bamburgh Archive Group’s history of local schools Clarty Boots and Inky Fingers. She is probably best known for her work for BBC Radio 3 and 4, for which she has written many specially commissioned poems and essays.
Find out more: www.katrinaporteous.co.uk
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