Dr Chris Ferguson

Congratulations to Ad Gefrin Anglo-Saxon Museum & Whisky Distillery, @AdGefrin, Northumberland, for winning Gold in the #NewTourismBusinessOfTheYear category! #VEAwards2025

Making the jump to Bluesky… I’ll be closing this account down in due course. Will likely be much more active in posting over there….

Away games just got better 😮‍💨🚂 Introducing our 2024/25 Newcastle United away kit!

@WildonGrange @AlanStrickland I hope so!

@AlanStrickland Delighted for you all! Is there a prize for who can spot you first?! 😁

Proud to be part of this fantastic new parliamentary team.

New Discoveries at Yeavering, Northumberland-Sarah Semple and Roger Miket. Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne lecture. 26 June 2024, 6pm at The Lecture Theatre of The Common Room. Westgate Road, Newcastle upon Tyne. @NclAntiquaries @AdGefrin @ArchandArch @ArcDurham

“The thing that I enjoy most about @AdGefrin is that we’re telling the story of Yeavering as an Anglo Saxon palace and it’s one of the only excavated palaces of that era. It’s really significant in Northumbrian history and in the history of the British Isles and of western Europe. But most people didn’t know it existed." - @CF_Archaeology Today is #WorldWhiskyDay and the North East is home to one of England’s fastest growing and most fascinating distilleries. @SimonTheQT gets the measure of Northumberland’s magnificent Ad Gefrin theqt.online/history-and-a-…

Aurora over Alnmouth… Northumberland really is wonderful!

Can’t believe this was the one morning I wasn’t listening live to @laurenlaverne on @BBC6Music and missed a conversation with @DrJaninaRamirez about the archaeology of Yeavering @AdGefrin... also nice that it was followed by @nadineshah’s new song

@PatrickNorris1 @BBC6Music @laurenlaverne @AdGefrin @DrJaninaRamirez Much appreciated!! Always good to know when Yeavering/Ad Gefrin is being talked about !

@PatrickNorris1 @BBC6Music @laurenlaverne @AdGefrin Oooh. I missed this and listen to @BBC6Music regularly - what time was it on?

@leighvenus @AdGefrin @IDADarkSky Huge pleasure to see you, and looking forward to the future @kielder_obs, where you can really celebrate those dark Northumbrian skies!

Brilliant night celebrating north east culture at #necultureawards. Thrilled that @AdGefrin and @TWAMmuseums won for our partnership around the Lindisfarne Gospels and the linked story to the royal court at Ad Gefrin !

Really pleased to have had the chance to work so closely with @TWAMmuseums and the whole team. twitter.com/twammuseums/st…

Best Arts & Business Partnership, in partnership with @durham_uni, is up next. Our finalists are: - @kielder_obsand & Novus at HMP Northumberland - @LaingArtGallery & @AdGefrin - @TracksDarlo & @BishopLine The winner… Laing Art Gallery & Ad Gefrin. Congrats! #NECultureAwards

Absolutely thrilled and a great partnership I hope we’ll take long into the future!

Winner of Best Arts and Business Partnership is @LaingArtGallery and Ad Gefrin. #NECultureAwards

We’re at the #NECultureAwards shortlisted in the best arts & business partnership, best arts & education partnership & best event categories! Good luck all! 🤞

A new PhD project from @nationaltrust and @sunderlanduni @nbcdtp seeks to connect diverse local communities to northeast coastal landscapes through multi-media arts practice, helping break down barriers to access and engagement 1/2: northernbridge.ac.uk/applyforastude…

Our newest episode of That JORVIK Viking Thing Podcast is out now! In this episode, we interview the Anglo-Saxon Museum and Whisky Distillery, Ad Gefrin 📜🥃 Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts & Google Podcasts today (20th November). #Podcast #JORVIK #Viking #Thing #York