For over half a century the North East Labour History Society has gathered, published and championed the stories of working people across Tyneside, Wearside, Teesside, Durham and Northumberland — from the pits and shipyards to the women’s movement, the trade unions and the campaigns that shaped a region.
In 1932 one government response to mass unemployment was to fund the National Council for Voluntary Service to…
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To mark the centenary of the 1926 General Strike, we have uploaded a number of articles that have been published in our Journal on the subject. Much of the material…
Read more →It was sixty years ago today… The 1761 Hexam Riot Pit Elegies and Ballads Coal Face:…
Read more →The Founder’s Award is made annually in memory of our late President Archie Potts. It is…
Read more →Congratulations to the Battle of Stockton Campaign Group which has won the inaugural Archie Potts founders’…
Read more →We have recently added a couple of new articles on our Articles and Reports Page: So…
Read more →Recorded voices and life stories of working people across the region.
Listen →A searchable database of radical and popular politics in the North East.
Search the database →Biographies of the activists, organisers and reformers who shaped the region.
Meet them →Articles, reports, publications and the Sid Chaplin Labour History Trophy.
Browse →Founded in 1967, we are Britain’s oldest regional labour history society — drawn from historians and activists, devoted to the story of working people in the North East.
We welcome members and non-members alike to our NELH Tuesday Meetings and our Annual General Meeting. Discussion is open to all.
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