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The Bewick Society is dedicated to the furtherance of the work of Thomas Bewick, his family and apprentices, and aims to promote a greater understanding and appreciation in particular of wood-engraved illustration.

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Cherryburn Times: Easter 2007 Volume 5 No. 2
Cherryburn Times: Easter 2007 - Volume 5 No. 2 (460KB)
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The Many Faces of Bewick.

Two Reviews of Jenny Uglow's new Biography.
The Bewick Family Tree. Bewick's White Owl. Poems by Simon Curtis & Keith Armstrong.

Cherryburn Times: Summer 2006 Volume 5 No. 1
Cherryburn Times: Summer 2006 - Volume 5 No. 1 (640KB)
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An American Wood-engraver by Abigail Rorer.

Thomas Bewick and John Clare: Two Rooted Men by R.K.R. Thornton.
A note on a matter of policy for the Society (support for acquisitions).

Cherryburn Times: Easter 2006 Volume 4 No. 9
Cherryburn Times: Easter 2006 - Volume 4 No. 9 (1MB)
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The Wild Cattle at Chillingham by DWS Gray.

Bewick's Land Birds: Hand Coloured Copies by Graham Carlisle.

Cherryburn Times: Spring 2005 Volume 4 No. 8
Cherryburn Times: Spring 2005 - Volume 4 No. 8 (420KB)
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The Cherryburn Book Collection by Felicity Stimpson.

The Frightened Hare: Thomas Bewick and Animals by Charles Bird.
Advanced notice of the Chillingham visit.

Cherryburn Times Easter 2005 Volume 4 No 7
Cherryburn Times: Easter 2005 - Volume 4 No. 7 (914KB)
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A new portrait of Thomas Bewick.

A Bewick Grail?, by David Gardner-Medwin.
Jane Bewick's jaunt to the Lake District in 1836, by David Gardner-Medwin.

Cherryburn Times Spring 2004 Volume 4 No 6

Cherryburn Times: Spring 2004 - Volume 4 No. 6 (504KB)
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Black Beauty, by Charles Bird.

Selected Fables, 1820: A conundrum solved, by Christopher Dean.
Thomas Bewick's Waterbirds: The Bicentenary, by David Gardner-Medwin.


Cherryburn Times Christmas 2003 Volume 4 No 5

Cherryburn Times: Christmas 2003 - Volume 4 No. 5 (956KB)
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Thomas Bewick's 250th birthday.

Birthday celebrations at Cherryburn.
Unveiling of the new bronze Chillingham Bull.


Cherryburn Times Spring 2003 Volume 4 No 4

Cherryburn Times: Spring 2003 - Volume 4 No. 4 (440KB)
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Douglas Mennear & Raymond Watkinson: obituaries and tributes.

Simon Schama's Bewick. London walkabout 2002, by Charles Bird.
Reviews: John Bewick-Engraver on Wood. Story of Ovingham. An Engraver's Globe. The Life and Work of Robert Gibbings.


Cherryburn Times Christmas 2002 Volume 4 No 3
Cherryburn Times: Christmas 2002 - Volume 4 No. 3 (1.2MB)
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Alan Angus: obituary and tribute.

London walkabout 2001, by Charles Bird.
Review of Simon Schama on Bewick, by Dr Peter Quinn.
'The Sniffing Dogs' - a solution from Graham Carlisle.

Cherryburn Times Spring 2002 Volume 4 No 2

Cherryburn Times: Spring 2002 - Volume 4 No. 2 (492KB)
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Thomas Bewick and John Hancock, by David Gardner-Medwin.

Thomas Bewick, the Barber Surgeons and the 'Cot' at the Forth, by David Gardner-Medwin.
Two Bewick Drawings from the collection of the Natural History Society, by June Holmes.
Thomas Bewick and 'Tomorrow's History' Project
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Cherryburn Times Spring 2001 Volume 4 No 1
Cherryburn Times: Spring 2001 - Volume 4 No. 1 (620KB)
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Corresponding members.
Iain Bain on Thomas Bewick's Letters, by Hugh Dixon.
John Bewick(1760-95), Engraver on Wood
Review of Maurice Rickards's The Encyclopaedia of Ephemera, by Nigel Tattersfield

Cherryburn Times Spring 2000 Volume 3 No 9
Cherryburn Times: Spring 2000 - Volume 3 No. 9 (848KB)
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New Chairman's Introduction
Thomas Bewick at the Hatton Gallery in Newcastle, review by Paul Barlow.
'A Pretty Piratical Book of Pictures' by Brian Alderson

Cherryburn Times Winter 1999 Volume 3 No 8
Cherryburn Times: Christmas 1999 - Volume 3 No. 8 (596KB)
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'Bookplates by Beilby and Bewick' by Nigel Tattersfield, reviewed by Dr Frank Atkinson.
A Mystery Solved, by Alan Angus.
A New Bewick Manuscript: the Memorial to the Misses Bewick, by June Holmes.

Cherryburn Times Spring 1999 Volume 3 No 7
Cherryburn Times: Spring 1999 - Volume 3 No. 7 (424KB)
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Excommunication at Ovingham!
A History of Printing Inks by Conservation students at the University of Northumbria.

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