Documentary
Research
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• Looking to find documents which will inform
on not just the battle but also on life in the
Borders (1513-1603)
• Training course in how to read old documents
– Palaeography
• Translating the documents found
– Documents & training material will be electronic so that
work can be done in participants own time
Volunteering/ Participating
opportunities
Documentary
Research
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• Looking to run two events (2013 & 2014)
similar to the Bygone Borderlands event
– Local History Groups looking into and displaying
their local history/ genealogy, with a Flodden twist
– Interpretation presentation training?
• Feed into a Flodden Travelling Exhibition which will
feature at the Church Flower Festivals
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Education Development
Keith Merrin
Woodhorn Trust
Woodhorn Trust
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• Operates museums in Berwick, Hexham,
Morpeth and Ashington and the
Northumberland Archives at Woodhorn and
Berwick
• Welcomes over 135,000 visitors each year
• Delivers heritage education workshops to over
12,000 students each year
• Employs specialist heritage education workers
Aspirations
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• Develop curriculum linked learning
opportunities inspired by Flodden 500
• Deliver workshops on-site and within the
classroom on both sides of the border
• Create resources (including loans boxes and
on-line) that can be used over the long term
• Widen opportunities beyond the formal
education sector
Development work
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• Working with education professionals from
both sides of the border
• Identifying content and curriculum areas to
focus on in main project
• Analysing numbers of potential schools and
catchment area for main project
• Assessing potential of Ecomuseum sites for
education visits
• Producing an action plan with targets
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Flodden 1513 Ecomuseum
Phase 2
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1.Seek Nominations
2.Form ‘Long List’
3.Score and appraise ‘Long List’
4.Arrive at ‘Preferred List’
‘Preferred List’ should include
15 new Scottish Sites
10 new English Sites
Schedule
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1.Seek Nominations
•
Press releases to National Press and Specialty Press
•
Direct contact with Local History Societies
•
Direct contact with CBA regional groups
•
Direct contact with Archaeology Scotland
•
Direct contact with Clan organizations
•
Direct contact with EH, HS, RCAHMS, NMS etc
•
Direct contact with Churches of England, Scotland etc
•
Direct contact with National Trust & NTS
•
Consultations: 3 in Scotland, 1 in England.
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Question 1
WHO ELSE SHOULD WE
BE SEEKING NOMINATION
FROM?
2.Seek Nominations
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3.Score and appraise
‘Long List’
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• Scoring based on categories that a site fits into
• Higher scores better
• Appraisal committee to consider technicalities of list
Eg. Ford Castle - Scores high
Not practical to include in list due to nature of use as an
educational establishment.
Could Ford Castle be represented by an adjacent site such as
Ford Church which scores less well.
• Arrive at an agreed ‘Preferred List’ to go forward
• 10 sites in England 15 sites in Scotland
3.Score and appraise
‘Long List’
Category
Sites forming part of
the Battle
Landscape
Sites forming part of
the wider indirect
Battle Landscape
Sites that
Memorialise the
Flodden Campaign
Max Score
20 (+5)
8-15
5-15
Sites associated
with artefacts.
5-15
Sites of the same
Type
Notes
A secondary score of 5 may be awarded where
another type of site falls in proximity to the
battlefield – ie between Wooler in the south, Duns
in the north, Yetholm in the West and Barmoor
Castle in the east
15
Sites that are
associated with
legend or stories or
with community
tradition
Sites of the same
date
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Contemporary Memorials – 15, 17-19th Century
Memorials – 12, Modern Memorials - 8
Depending on the validity if the story/legend and
how widely the story/legend is known about
Depending on the provenance of the artefact
1-10
Depending on the proximity to the battle field.
Within 5 miles = 10. Within 20 miles = 5. Beyond
20 miles = 1-4
1-10
Depending on their relevance to Flodden and our
understanding of Border Warfare
Site Name
TOTAL
SCORE
Sites forming Sites forming
Sites
Sites
Sites
part of the
part of the memorialisin
Sites of the
associated by associated by
Battle
wider indirect g the Battle
same period
Legend or
Artefact (5Landscape
Landscape
of Flodden
(1-10)
Story (2-15)
15)
(20)
(15)
(8-12-15)
Flodden Hill
Fortifications
50
20
10
10
10
Ford Castle
45
20
5
10
10
Etal Bridge
35
20
5
Framlington
Castle
35
Edinburgh Castle
40
Linlithgow
Palace
35
Yetholm
Hospital?
35
Swinton Church,
Flodden Bell
35
Selkirk Museum
27
Borough Muir
23
Coldstream
Church
18
15
10
10
10
15
10
5
15
20
5
15
15
8
Sites of the same
type (1-15)
10
Edinburgh
Castle
10
10
Linlithgow
Palace
10
5
Yetholm
Hospital?
5
Swinton Church,
Flodden Bell
5
5
15
12
Selkirk Museum
8
Borough Muir
10
Coldstream
Church
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Question 2/3
Are these the
correct categories?
Should we add or remove
any of these categories?
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Question 4
Would anyone like to
NOMINATE as site?
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Heritage craft
taster sessions
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• Green wood-working
– Pole-lathe turning wooden bowls
– Wattle panels for revetment and gabions
• Basket making
• Black-smith
– Weapons
– Tools
• Braid making
Heritage craft
taster sessions
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Dates for your diary
• The Hirsel, Coldstream 2nd June
• Woodhorn Museum, Ashington 9th June
Try something old for the first time!
Commemoration
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• Event 10th September 2013 at Branxton
• Flower festivals
• Travelling exhibition
• Peace & Reconciliation Centre
• Museum exhibitions
– Selkirk
– Coldstream
• Mauchline Ware
Marketing
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• Create a marketing plan / timeline:
– Incorporate all Flodden community projects
– Liaise with Tourism Associations and Councils
NEED CONFIRMED DATES AND OUTLINES OF
FLODDEN EVENTS BEFORE MID-JUNE 2012
– Looking into the possibilities of themed/
stylised presentation of events
– Create a variety of marketing mediums: social
& traditional
Marketing
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• Create a marketing toolkit
– Poster templates
– Media contacts/ deadlines
– Press release advice
• Individual campaigns
– Not only about showcasing events but also
volunteer opportunities
• Raise national awareness
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Quick break-
Back in 10 minutes
Flodden Community
Projects
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Matthew Rooke
Chief Executive & Artistic Director of The Maltings Theatre and
Cinema
Flodden Community
Projects
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• There are over 100 suggested, in process or
completed Flodden community projects that
we know of.
View the full list on
the ecomuseum
website under
Flodden
1513 Projects
Flodden Calendar
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• All the events that have
provided dates are listed on
the website
• To avoid clashes and to
feed in to the joint marketing
campaign
WE NEED YOUR DATES
Flodden Calendar
Month
Date
Event
January
?
9th
February
March
13th
?
13th
Launch of Peace & Reconciliation Centre
Glendale Local History Society (GLHS) “Aspects of Border
History” talk
GLHS “Flodden 500 Years on” talk
Launch of ‘Fatal Rivalry’
GLHS “Flodden- Many questions and perhaps a few answers” talk
April
May
June
July
30-1
13th
St Michael & All Angels, Ford, Flower Festival
GLHS “Heatherslaw Mill and milling from the 1300s” talk
GLHS Flodden Feast
20th
Music in Ladykirk Church- Mid-Northumbria Chorus
11th- onwards Mauchline Ware exhibition opens
1st
15th
14th
?
?
5-7th
4-10th (tbc)
12/13/14
20th & 21st
24th-28th
25th (tbc?)
?
Music in Coldstream Parish Church- Choir of local voices
Durham Cathedral Consort of Singers- Ford Church
Selkirk Common riding
Norham St Cuthbert’s Flower Festival
Abbotsford House re-opened
NEEHI Academic conference
Ford St Michael and All Angels Art Exhibition
St Mary’s Wooler- weekend of events
‘The Followers’ at Glendale festival
Pilgrimage from Durham and Edinburgh
Living History at Etal Castle(English Heritage)
Flodden exhibition in Coldstream museum
Month
Date
Event
August
1st (?tbc)
3rd-4th
8th
15th-?
26th-Oct
6th-8th
Living History at Etal Castle (English Heritage)
Flodden and 16th Century Living History
Flodden Day- Coldstream Civic week
Ladykirk Church, Flower Festival (Patronal Festival)
Flodden exhibition Halliwell House, Selkirk
‘The Borderers Return’ ride
7th/8th
(tbc)
7th
7th or 8th
8th-10th
9th
Living History at Etal Castle (English Heritage)
September
10th
15th
28th
29th
October
13th
27th
Flodden Peace Garden, Selkirk, officially opened
Stewart family visit to the monument
Branxton St Paul’s Flower Festival
Commemoration dinner Duns Castle
?Commemoration dinner at Ford Castle?
Standing Council of Scottish Chiefs solemn commemoration St Giles
Cathedral, Edinburgh
‘Flyting’ Opera at the Maltings and possibly traditional music, poetry,
storytelling and film
Solemn Commemorations- Requiem Mass in Norham St Cuthbert’s &
Ecumenical Service at Branxton
Andante Concert, John Shepherd's Media Vita- Ladykirk Church, 3pm
Michaelmas. Ford's Patronal Festival. Evensong with Newcastle Cathedral
Choir- Ford Church
Andante Concert, John Shepherd's Media Vita- Selkirk Parish Church, 3pm
Andante Concert, John Shepherd's Media Vita- Ford Church, 3pm
Andante Concert, John Shepherd's Media Vita- Coldstream Parish Church3pm
Media Recording
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Print Media:
-Newspapers
-articles, books
- letters, posters
Audio Media:
Social Media:
- Radio
Using
Media to
record a
project
-CDs
- Websites, blogs,
emails
Visual Media:
Other Media:
-Video &
Photograph
- Cartoons
- TV
Volunteering/participating
opportunities
-Facebook, Twitter
- Computer games
- painting,
sculpture
Media Recording
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Oana Fotescu
E-mail: oana_fote@yahoo.com
Phone: 07931773165
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OPEN FLOOR
Over to you….
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Thank you