North East Labour History
A showing of Mike Leigh’s latest celebrated film Peterloo with speakers / workshops on Peterloo and its aftermath, Protest in the 1960s and the current fight for women’s pension rights Tickets via https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/642615 covering the Star and Shadow’s catering: a hot lunch, tea, coffee and cake all day £10, waged and £5, pay as you […]
Sir Charles Trevelyan was a controversial Northumberland politician who was involved in some of the most significant political developments of the first half of the twentieth century. He served in the Liberal Government from 1909 until he resigned in protest against the decision to go to war. During the war he formed a pressure group […]
A terrific performance, and a real, rollicking, introduction to the 150-year history of the TUC. Get your tickets at https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/wallsend/wallsend-memorial-hall/banner-theatre-spirit-of-1868/2019-05-10/19:00. Event Flyer
Free admission, please register: Organised by Labour and Society Research Group and Conflict and Revolution Research Strand of Newcastle University Friday 17 May 2019 12.30 – 13.00 Registration and Coffee 13.00 – 14.30 Panel 1: The Dynamics of Contention in 1919, Chair: TBC Jacopo Perazzoli (University of Milan): […]
As you may know, sadly, Dr Eric Wade passed away last year. We are planning the above event where we’ll be sharing memories and stories about Eric. We have arranged a programme of speakers who knew him well. However, if you’d like to add your own informal stories about Eric, then please email Mick Goulding, […]
Chartism 2019 - Booking Form 9.00–9.15 Registration. 9.15–9.30 Introduction and Welcome (Joan Allen and Richard Allen, Newcastle). 9.30–10.15 Tom Scriven (Manchester). ‘Chartism's electoral strategy and the bifurcation of Radicalism’. 10.15–11.00 Joan Allen (Newcastle). ‘Chartist trials, 1839: Revisited’. Break 11.30–12.15 Mike Greatbatch. (Independent). ‘William Parker: A Chartist Life’. 12.15-13.00 Joe Stanley (Sheffield […]
A commemoration of the dark events of the 1830s & a celebration of the lives of these men, found guilty of conspiracy by a Durham Judge. Sentenced to the penal colonies for life, and transported in irons to Botany Bay, leaving their families behind to fend for themselves. On Saturday 1 June from 1.00pm, join […]
Sigmund Pump Apprentices at a 2016 Reunion In this paper, I will discuss the Gateshead-based Sigmund Pumps Wartime Apprenticeship Scheme. Utilising archive materials and new oral history interviews with five wartime apprentices, I will examine the impact of the apprenticeship scheme on those involved. The Sigmund scheme was unique in that it was based on […]