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Zoom now available: NELH Tuesday Meeting: Mike Barke will talk about his new book on the history of Newcastle: Mapping the City

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Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86337404230?pwd=MEtySlM0WTB1amhNejJTdEV0aHEyZz09 Meeting ID: 863 3740 4230 Passcode: 361822 Our first Tuesday meeting of the year will take place on 25 January at 7.00pm when Mike Barke will talk the history of Newcastle-upon-Tyne based on his new book, Mapping the City (co-authored with Brian Robson and Anthony Champion). Newcastle has a long and […]

Morpeth Methodist Church: John Stirling will talk about William Morris

Morpeth Methodist Church Howard Terrace, Morpeth

From Joanna Keith at the Workers Educational Association   We are putting on a course about William Morris in the Morpeth Methodist Church on Saturday 29 January from 10.00am to 12.30 pm. The speaker is John Stirling (Vice-Chair of the William Morris Society and NELHS Committee Member). There is a fee of £8.00, reductions available.  If […]

POSTPONED: Using Trade Union Banners for Education: The Case of the 1938 ‘Red’ Follonsby Miners’ Banner – a talk by Lucy Grimshaw (Northumbria University) and Lewis Mates (Durham University)

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From David Connolly, Secretary, North East Labour History Society: To: NELHS Members and Supporters Our apologies for the short notice but this is to let you know that we are postponing our Zoom meeting on Using Trade Union Banners for Education: The Case of the 1938 'Red' Follonsby Miners' Banner which was due to take […]

Leeds University: Chartism Day 2022 in honour of Professor Malcolm Chase

University of Leeds

From the Society for the Study of Labour History Chartism Day returns in March 2022 after an enforced absence of two years. This year’s event, held jointly with the Social History Society, is in honour of Professor Malcolm Chase, who died in February 2020. Malcolm was a great historian of Chartism, a stalwart of the […]

Tyneside Irish Centre: Sylvia Topp, Remembering Eileen O’Shaughnessy

Tyneside Irish Centre 43 Gallowgate, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

In conjunction with the Orwell Society, we are hosting an in person meeting at the Tyneside Irish Centre, Friday 25 March at 7.30pm when Sylvia Topp will be in conversation with North East History editor, Rosie Serdiville about her recently published biography of Eileen O'Shaughnessy, Eileen: The Making of George Orwell. This meeting will also be livestreamed (see below). […]

The Word, South Shields. Sylvia Topp will talk about her book Eileen: The Making of George Orwell

The Word 45 Market Place, South Shields

BOOKING REQUIRED: BOOK HERE  Suitable for ages 16+ Sylvia Topp, author of the novel Eileen: The Making of George Orwell, will be joining us at The Word to discuss her book which is the never before told story of George Orwell’s first wife, Eileen O’Shaughnessy, a woman born in South Shields who shaped, supported and […]

Northern Stage, Newcastle: Red Ellen – The Story of Ellen Wilkinson MP

Northern Stage Barras BridgeNE1 7RH, Newcastle Upon Tyne

"A working class woman inside the walls of Westminster? If that is not espionage, I do not know what is." A Northern Stage, Nottingham Playhouse & Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh production Booking details here This remarkable new play from Caroline Bird tells the inspiring and epic story of Ellen Wilkinson, Labour MP, who was forever on […]

First Tuesday. Dr Christopher Massey, Teesside University will talk about: The Man at the Back: Lord Tom Sawyer and the modernisation of the Labour Party

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‘The Man at the Back: Lord Tom Sawyer and the modernisation of the Labour Party’ with Dr. Christopher Massey This talk highlights the significant contribution of Lord Tom Sawyer to the Labour Party’s modernisation between 1983 and 1997. Sawyer, as a key trade union official and later General Secretary of the Labour Party, played a […]