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Newcastle City Library, Book Launch: Tyneside Song From Blind Willie to Bobby Nunn
Bewick Hall Newcastle City Library, Newcastle upon TyneDear friend and colleagues, As many of you will know, Blind Willie Purvis was the earliest-known named vernacular songwriter in Newcastle, and he became an iconic figure among middle-class people by the 1820s, while Bobby Nunn was the earliest-known semi-professional songwriter for the town’s working-class people from 1829. I will be launching my Tyneside Song […]
NELHS Second Tuesday at Redhills: Huw Beynon will speak on “‘The Little Dictator’ and ‘The Three Musketeers’: The NUM Durham Area at a time of Nationalisation and Cold War”
The Miners' Hall, Redhills, Durham Flass Street, Durham CityIn 1937 Orwell visited a coal mine in Lancashire and was exhausted by the time he had walked to the coal face. He marvelled at the endurance of the miners and wrote of how you could “easily drive a car right across the north of England: and never once remembered that hundreds of feet below... […]
St Nicholas Cathedral, Newcastle: Commemoration of the 1995 Bosnian Genocide
St Nicholas Cathedral St. Nicholas Sq, Newcastle upon TyneFrom Smajo Beso of Newcastle’s Bosnian Community You are warmly invited to Newcastle’s St Nicholas Cathedral on Thursday 11 July at 6.30pm to remember the victims and survivors of the single largest atrocity mass killing on European soil since the Second World War. This year marks the 24th anniversary of the Bosnian genocide, in the town […]
St Anne’s Church, Newcastle: Mike Greatbach will talk about Life and Labour at St Anne’s c1760-1840
St Anne's Church Breamish Street, Newcastle upon TyneThe Church is situated between Breamish Street and City Road. The main entrance is on Breamish Street where there is on-street parking.
Winlaton Mill: Val Scully will talk about her novel Molly Bowes and the aftermath of Peterloo
Cafe Shrub, Land of Oak and Iron Heritage Centre Spa Well Road, Winlaton Mill, Blaydon on Tyne
£12.50
Tyneside Irish Centre: Peter Coe’s The Road to Peterloo
Tyneside Irish Centre 43 Gallowgate, Newcastle upon Tyne, United KingdomThis is the story of the Peterloo Massacre told through many of the ballads that were written at the time, please book at https://peterloo.eventbrite.co.uk There is also a guided walk on Newcastle's Campaign for the Vote, starting at Grey's Monument which you can join on Sunday at 2.30pm, £5 for adults, £3 for over 60s […]
NELHS First Tuesday: Val Scully will talk about Writing Historical Fiction in the North East
Old George Inn Old George Yard, NewcastleIn this illustrated talk, Val will describe researching for her two novels set in the North East: My Name is Eleanor and Molly Bowes. Having begun with eighteenth-century Gibside, her interests evolved to encompass the wider nineteenth-century social history of the area. She will discuss the processes involved in writing historical fiction with a didactic purpose. […]
Saint Ann’s Church Gateshead: Peter Wright will talk about The History of the River Tyne Water Trades
St Ann's Church The Vicarage, 11 Gibson Street, Newcastle upon TyneThe Vicarage 11 Gibson Street Newcastle upon Tyne
NELHS Annual General Meeting, Newcastle Lit & Phil. John Charlton: Stephenson, Spence and Eldon: a fateful triangle. Did climate change start here?
The Lit & Phil 23 Westgate Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, United KingdomGeorge Stephenson Lord Eldon In 2019 the issue of climate change has moved centre stage with the spread internationally of school student strikes and the emergence of Extinction Rebellion. One aspect of the discussion has been the exploration of its historical roots. John Charlton will try to make a case for the romantic period in […]