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As well as summaries and reviews of books and publications about North East radical history, we have prepared a general reading list, intended to help users to become acquainted with material on North East radical history (labour, socialist, radical, feminist).

Books and Publications about North East history

  • Edited by Keith Armstrong: The Hive of Liberty: The Life and Work of Thomas Spence (1750-1814)
  • John Charlton: Don’t you hear the H-Bomb’s thunder
  • Lewis Mates: The Great Labour Unrest: Rank-and-file movements and political change in the Durham coalfield

Other Books and Publications

  • John Charlton: Making Middle England
  • Dave Harker: Cat-Gut Jim. Ned Corvan’s Life & Times
  • Dave Harker: The Gallowgate Lad. Joe Wilson’s life & Songs
  • Jack Lawson: A Man’s Life
  • Roy Parker: Hoddlesden and its satellite villages
  • Don Watson: Squatting in Britain, 1945-1955. Housing, Politics and Direct Action

Upcoming Events

  1. Durham WEA Chartism: Joel Wootten will talk about, This Fortress of Freedom: Chartism in Gateshead

    February 24 @ 14:00 - 16:00
  2. First Tuesday: Dr Joan Allen will talk about: Progressing democracy: the Jarrow Land and Labour League, 1880-1887

    March 5 @ 19:00
  3. Newcastle Lit & Phil: Book Launch “Men of Iron”

    March 13 @ 06:30 - 16:30
  4. First Tuesday: Joe Redmayne, The Post-War Labour Unrest 1919 – 1921: The Consolidation of Socialism and the transition from Syndicalism to Communism in the Durham Coalfield

    April 2 @ 19:00

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  • The NHS at 70: The Story of Our Lives – Peter Mitchell
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  • Joel Wootten presented with the 2018 Sid Chaplin prize by Sid’s grandson, Grahame Chaplin
  • Now Available, North East History, Volume 49: 2018
  • Grants to Support the Creation of Catalogues for Archives
  • London Socialist Historians Newsletter, Spring 2018
  • The Battle of Stockton: Campaign Commemorates Town’s Historic Refusal of Fascism
  • Matvei Fischer, a Newcastle Old Bolshevik – Paper by David Saunders
  • Harry Barnes’ Easington Blog
  • Mining Art Gallery opens at Aukland Castle

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