Download Past Issues of the Journal

At the beginning of 2018 the North East Labour History Society decided to start publishing previous issues of its Journal on this website. So far, we have published:

Issue 1 (1967)
Issue 3 (1969)
Issue 4 (1970)
Issue 5 (1971)
Issue 10 (1976)
Issue 11 (1977)
Issue 13 (1979)
Issue 17 (1983)
Issue 18 (1984)
Issue 19 (1985) and
Issue 36 (2005) through to Issue 55 (2024).

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Journal, Number 55: 2024

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Journal, Number 54: 2023

• Ragamuffins and Sons of Liberty; the 1774 General Election in Morpeth and Newcastle upon Tyne
• Clerical Exactions from the Poor, William Parker, Ballast Hills, and Affordable Burials for the Working Poor, 1800-1857
• Five Russians in the North East of England
• Socialists and Speculators: the Walker Estate as a Battleground of Housing Ideologies 1902-1919
• Northeastern England and America’s Bloodiest War
• Shield’s First Socialists
• Pneumocoiosis and Social Class in Twentieth-Century County Durham Mining Communities
• The Growth of the Co-operative Movement in North East England

Cover photograph, Jennie Shearan who led the campaign against pollution from Monkton coke works

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Journal, Number 53: 2022

• Black-On-Tyne: the Black Presence on Tyneside in the 1860s
• Their Lives are Our Lives. The Black presence in Gateshead in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
• Nigel Todd and the Greening Wingrove Project
• Roses and Revolutionists: Nigel Todd’s History of the Clousden Hill Community
• The Progressive Decade? Politics in 1950s Newcastle
• The Tyneside Boy Orator: The Legend Examined
• The Labour Party in Newcastle: the struggle for office, 1945-1960
• Uncovering Women’s Industrial Past: the Newcastle upon Tyne Branch of the National Federation of Women Workers, 1912-13
• Red Ellen, Destroyed Intelligence Files and the Pause Button of History: the Playwright, the Biographer and Public History
• What mining families remember about the Miners’ Strike in County Durham
• Workers and Wages at Hetton Colliery, County Durham

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Journal, Number 52: 2021

• ‘One Aim, One God, One Destiny’? An Investigation of Black lives in Tyneside, 1939-1952
• ‘A Bridge Across the Seas’: The Newcastle Migration Hostels for Boys and Young Women, 1927-1932
• Children of the Revolution: Child Labour in Newcastle’s Iron and Glass Industries, c 1830-1850
• Paul Robeson and the North East
• The War Came Early to Sleepy Valley – Part Three, 1943-1946, D-Day Dodgers
• Squatting in Tynemouth in 1946
• The Labour Party in Newcastle: the struggle for office, 1945-1960
• 1956: a year remembered
• The Rise and Fall of Trade Union Education 1976 – 2021
• What I Did in My Poly Days: Newcastle Polytechnic and Trades Union Education
• ‘Let justice prevail though the heavens fall’; Thompson’s, the Miners’ Strike of 1984, and me
• Scotswood: from green fields to green fields in a hundred years

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Journal, Number 51: 2020

• 1931 Labour’s defeat and NE England
• Back in ’83: A General Election Revisited
• ‘Memory Lingers Here’: Are Newcastle’s Monuments Sites of Collective memory?
• A Time of Heroes: How we will be remembering the International Brigaders from Stockton
• ‘Socialists and the Drama’: The Dodds sisters and the Gateshead Progressive Players between the wars
• The Scammells are coming, hoorah, hoorah
• A passion for miners’ welfare: two generations of Ashington’s Minoughan family, 1872-1969
• Crowley’s Crew: From Royalists to Radicals
• Experiences of place and loss at Newcastle West End Foodbank
• The Primrose League on Tyneside, 1883-1901
• Schools & Labour History

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Journal, Number 50: 2019

• Reflections on history and Social class: North East England over time
• This Fortress of Freedom: A Study of Chartism in Gateshead
• War, Welfare and Remembrance: A Case Study of two North Shields Ships
• The War Came Early to Sleepy Valley
• Raising Their Voices: Two Women of the 1930s
• The Knights of Labour in the North East, 1880-1900
• Discovering Joseph Swan (1794-1885). Autobiographical Reminiscences from Afar

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Journal, Number 49: 2018

• The struggle over Female Labour at the Durham Coalfield, 1914-1918
• Fifty Years of Activism. The NELHS in its Jubilee Year
• Bevin Boys in the North East of England, 1944-1948
• Phil Lenton (1946-2017), a personal appreciation
• John McNair, From Tyneside Boy Orator to a Life in Socialism
• Plashetts Revisited: Life and Labour in a Coal Mining Outpost
• North East Germans during World War one: from Friend to Foe
• The Radical Road, Looking Backwards and Forwards

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Journal, Number 48: 2017

• Fifty Years of the North East Labour History Society
• Picketing, Photography and Memory: Easington 1984-85
• Jack Trevena: WEA District Secretary and Conscientious Objector
• The Bagnalls of Ouseburn: Watermen, Publican, and Sporting Hero
• Trade Unionism and Methodism
• Rose Lumsden, a Sunderland Nurse in the Great War
• Gender and Social Transformation in the 1970s Community Development Projects
• Commemorative Plaques and Monuments, some recent examples
• Davey Hopper 1943 – 2016. A Personal Appreciation

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Journal, Number 47: 2016

• A Home Rule Hotbed
• The Cult of the Savoury Succulent
• Welfare Work and Women’s Rights in Newcastle upon Tyne during the Great War
• Radical Voters in the 1835 Newcastle Parliamentray Election
• The Genteel Militant. Elizabeth Spence Watson’s Work for Women’s Suffrage and Peace
• We Need to Talk about the Secondary Moderns. A Conversation about a Local History Project
• Heroes all at the Royal Albert Hall
• Campaigning for Craigielea
• NUPE in the North, Union Organising and Activism
• Ruskin College, Oxford 1956-58
• Terry Conway, Folksinger, Songwriter and Working Man, 1943-2013

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Journal number 46: 2015

Contains articles On:

• Opposition to the South African War 1888-1902
• Levellers in the North East, 1648
• The General Strike – undermined by volunteers?
• Health Provision for Byker’s Working Poor, 1835-1852
• William Morris and Striking Miners, 1880s
• Haltwhistle in the 1930s
• An Oral History of the CWS
• Norman Cornish and Nornam Dennis – an appreciation
• Book reviews, project reports and NELHS news

 

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Journal number 45: 2014

Contains articles On:

• Brandling Place Home for Penitent Women
• A footnote in the history of the North East Film Archive
• The Community Development Project in North Tyneside 1971 -1977
• Middlesbrough Football – Early history
• Reflections on the 1984 – 5 miners strike
• Fred Ramsey – more than a stereotype
• Archie Potts – a Labour childhood
• Book reviews, project reports and NELHS news

 

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Journal number 44: 2013

Contains articles On:

• Consett: a photo essay Peter Brabban
• Politics in the Piggery: Chartism in the Ouseburn 1838-1848
• An Uneasy relationship? Labour and the Suffragettes in the North East
• Competition, conflict and regulation: the Foyboatmen 1900-1950
• Their Geordies and Ours, Part 1

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Journal number 43 (2012) includes articles on:

Contains articles On:

• Chartism and Co-operation in the North East
• The Wallsend Owenites
• Trade, Gender and Membership: Co-operative policy and practice in North-East England and Southern Sweden in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century
• A new Rochdale? The Sunderland Poor Store
• plus oral history, appreciations and reviews

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Journal number 42 (2011) includes articles on:

• Ray Challinor: historian and political activist
• The Meadowell Riots 1991
• Horace Green: trade unionist and Communist
• Life in the shipyards and on the railways
• The birth of Easington colliery

 

 

 

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Journal number 41 (2010) includes articles on:

• Women and the war industries on Tyneside 1914 – 18
• Gateshead politics between the wars
• The building of the Tyne Bridge 1920 – 29
• The IRA campaign in the North East and the State response 1920 – 23
• The Reign of Terror – Solomon Hodgson
• The Newcastle Chronicle and the events of 1794
• Plus recollections (oral history), appreciations and reviews.

 

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Journal number 40 (2009) includes articles on:

• Rural labour in Northumberland
• Local government
• Electoral politics in the late 19th Century North East – the Irish dimension
• The second part of Rene Chaplin’s fascinating memoir.

 

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Journal number 39 (2008) includes articles on:

• Slavery and abolition
• The Great Reform Demonstration of 1819 on Newcastle Town Moor
• Chartism
• Anti-vaccination campaigns
• Jack Common & the People’s Theatre
• plus recollections (oral history) and reviews.

 

 

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Journal number 38 (2007) includes articles on:

• Women’s war work in North East shipbuilding
• The origins of district nursing
• The 1911 seamen’s strike in the North East
• Elisabeth Sims the Labour Pionee
• Ouesburn 1911
• Chartism
• plus apprecations and reviews.

 

 

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Journal number 37 (2006) includes articles on:

• The Ashington pitmen artists
• The fishing communities of North Northumberland
• An 18th Century Durham miners’ strike, a 19th Century Durham miner’s wife
• An appreciation of the author Sid Chaplin
• An Oral History section
• Reviews and news of the Society.

 

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Journal number 36 (2005) includes articles on:

• Basque children refugees on Tyneside and Cumberland
• Second World War strikes on the River Tyne
• Race relations in sixties Newcastle
• The 1826 seamen’s strike on the Wear
• Ellen Wilkinson
• Whose Heritage: Bowes and Beamish
• plus oral history, archive reports and reviews.

 

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Journal number 19 (1985) includes articles on:

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Back to the Roots
“Deadly Effluvia and Atheistical Glare”: Republicans in 19th Century Cleveland
The Northern Tribute: A North East Radical Magazine
The Lost Years: Northumberland Miners, 1844-1926

Mining Disasters
The Heaton Main Colliery Disaster, 1815
Pit Deaths in Stanley, 1909

Telling it as it was
Military intervention in mining disputes, 1921-1926
1926 – Women Support the Miners

I Remember it Well
The Other Victory: Sunderland July 1945

New Sources
Letter tof a Portuguese Consul, 1877-1879

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Journal number 18 (1984) includes articles on:

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Tyneside Comedians – the story of two of the North East’s greatest comedians
Ned Corvan
Billy Purvis

Back to the roots
Owenite Socialism in Darlington
Barney Markson

Telling it as it was – the struggle against Fascism in the Thirties
Recollections of Tom Brown, Len Edmondson and George Hardy

Dear Dr Marx – letters of Joseph Cowen to Karl Marx
New Sources – letters of a Portuguese Consul, 1877-79
A Spot of Bother – Civil disorder in the North East between the Wars

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Journal number 17 (1983) includes articles on:

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The Cartridge Mystery of 1907
Jimmy Stewart and his Revolting Children
Songs of horse-racing on Tyneside
The 1970s and Radicalism in North East England
George Harvey and Industrial Unionism
Sunderland and the 1832 Reform Bill
Labour Women in North East England
Memories from the Past No. 1: The First Durham Labour Women’s Gala

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Journal number 13 (1979) includes articles on:

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Poaching and Property on Alston moor
Unionisation and the Building Trades: North Ears England 1875-1894

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Journal number 11 (1977) includes articles on:

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Isaac Mitchell and the ‘Progressive” Alliance 1903-06
Sidney Webb, Ramsey MacDonald, Emmanuel Shinwell, and the Durham Constituency of Seaham
“Bevin to Beat the Bankers”: Ernest Bevin’s Gateshead Campaign of 1931
The Organisation of Political Support for Labour in the North of England: the Work of Margaret Gibb 1929-57

Documents
Sunderland Divisional Labour Party Balance Sheet for 1931
A Letter to the Members of the Women’s Sections of the Seaham Divisional Labour Party from Beatrice Webb, 14 October 1931

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Journal number 10 (1976) includes articles on:

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The General Strike in the North East
The General Strike
Cramlington
Memories of the General Strike
Newcastle: the other side
Chopwell – “Little Moscow”

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Journal number 5 (1971) includes articles on:

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Joseph Cowen – The Northern Tribune
Cowen’s Early Years: A Select BibliographyMemories of a Domestic Servant in the First World War. Interview
Domestic Service in the early 1920s
Women and Society in Late 19th Century and Early 20th Century
Material in Local Libraries: Newcastle upon Tyne Polytechnic
Skilled Timeworkers’ Rates in the Shipbuilding and Ship Repair Industries since 1913

Education and the Working Class in the 19th Century
Schools for Working Class Children in Co Durham in the early 19th Century
The Gateshead School Board 1870-1914

 

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Journal number 4 (1970) includes articles on:

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South Shields Labour Movement in the 1830s
Labour in South Shields 1800-1850: an Interim Bibliography
FD Maurice – A short Bibliographical Study

The Poor Law
The Introduction of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act on Tyneside
Poor Law Administration in South Shields (1836-1847)
The Hendon and Pwllheli Unions 1835-1871

The General Strike in the North East
The General Strike on Teesside
The North Eastern Daily Gazette and the General Strike
General Strike in Middlesbrough
Tape recording of James Stephenson of Winlaton
The notebook of an Engineering Craftsman

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Journal number 3 (1969) includes articles on:

(NB you cannot search inside this Journal, select the article you need from the contents list and then scroll to the article)

Summaries of Papers read to the Group, 1968-1969
The regional problem in retrospect
The Royal Commission on Trade Unions
Methodism and the Working Classes

Local Records
Chartism in north-east England
Labour History of the railways in north-east England
National labour Federation
The papers of Henry Havelock Robson
The General Strike in north east England

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Journal number 1 (1967) includes articles on:

‘A New Society’ Edward Allen
Summaries of Papers: J. Saville, A.J. Peacock, W.R. Carside, C.J. Hunt
Programme for 1967-68
‘Tribute to Sam Watson’ by Sid Chaplin
Local records:
Introduction D.J. Rowe
Tyneside Engineer’s Papers
The Keelmen
Shipwrights
Shipwright’s Assoc. Tyne 1795
Tyne Shipwrights Rules 1850
Wear Shipwrights Rules 1860
Wear Board of Conciliation 1853-4