North East Labour History
From Judith Green, This year marks the centenary of the disaster which killed 38 men and boys from the local area. To commemorate this, local organisations are holding a remembrance event from 10.30am - 1pm and a memorial service at 2pm at St Margaret's Church, Armstrong Road, Scotswood NE15 6AR on Saturday 29 March.
Headstone for Mary Lyons (from Ed Waugh) As a response to our play Wor Bella, about women's football in WW1, there will be an unveiling of a headstone to Mary Lyons at Jarrow Cemetery on Sunday, April 27 @ 11.30am. See press release below. FORGOTTEN WW1 FEMALE FOOTBALL STAR TO GET A HEADSTONE She died […]
On 10 May 1920, East London dockers made history when they refused to load the Jolly George ship with munitions that were intended to be used against the Bolsheviks in Russia. Their action precipitated a wave of working-class support that effectively forced the British government to abandon their war plans. It has remained a beacon […]
It was 60 years ago in July 1965 that the Region's trade unions planned and put on an Exhibition and Arts Festival. This talk will review just what was on offer and what the reaction was from local people and in the media. It will also reflect on the state of the unions at the […]
From Kath Connolly Education 4 Action are a group of volunteers working to celebrate our mining and union heritage. Amongst other things, we have provided tours of the Miners' Hall at Redhills, organised meetings for major speakers in the week of the Big Meeting as well as developing our schools programme which has been successful […]
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Our AGM speaker will be Dr. Sally Watson on Protest and participation in the redevelopment of Byker, 1968-1982. Byker has long divided opinion. It has been celebrated for its achievements, both architectural and social, and criticised as a failed experiment. This talk revisits Byker to reconsider some of the myths that have sprung up around […]
From Daniel Laqua | Professor of Modern and Contemporary History | Department of Humanities | Northumbria University On 8 October, we're running a workshop at Northumbria University, entitled 'Change-making between the Local and the Global: A Conversation'. It's part of a wider project that my colleague Henry Miller and I are involved in. The aim of […]
Runciman’s mission to Czechoslovakia was a key part of Chamberlain’s policy of appeasement. Mike has not delivered this talk in about 12 years so why revisit it now? It initially occurred to him when he recognised that Putin spoke of the Russian speakers in Ukraine similarly to how Hitler spoke of the Sudeten Germans in […]
In December 1988 Sunderland’s shipyards closed despite a long and passionate campaign to save them, and 800 years of shipbuilding on the Wear came to an end. Yet this closure has always looked bizarre. Why were these sophisticated modern yards, representing millions of pounds of public investment, written off? Why did the Tory Government sideline […]