Joint NELH / Tyneside Irish Centre Talk. Chris Jones: ‘The Spy who helped the Soviets win Stalingrad and Kursk’
Tyneside Irish Centre 43 Gallowgate, Newcastle upon Tyne, United KingdomDetails to be added
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North East Labour History Society, Annual General Meeting. Tyneside Irish Centre. Speaker: Dr. Sally Watson on Protest and participation in the redevelopment of Byker, 1968-1982.
Tyneside Irish Centre 43 Gallowgate, Newcastle upon Tyne, United KingdomOur 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 […]
Northumbria University. Workshop: Change-making between the Local and the Global: A Conversation
Business Hub, Library, room 304E Northumbria University, Sandyford Road, Newcastle-upon-TyneFrom 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 […]
NELH Tuesday Meeting, Tyneside Irish Centre. Mike Fraser will talk about The Geordie Appeaser – Viscount Runciman’s Mission to Czechoslovakia in 1938
Tyneside Irish Centre 43 Gallowgate, Newcastle upon Tyne, United KingdomRunciman’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 […]
NELH Tuesday Meeting. The Closure of Sunderland’s Shipyards: The Inside Story with Bob Clay and Martin Spence
ZoomIn 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 […]
Chester le Street: Relaunch of the South Pelaw Miners Banner
Chester-Le-Street C of E Junior School Hilda Park, South Pelaw,, Chester-le-StreetThe South Pelaw Miners Banner needed a new home- where better than the local school where the children would grow up knowing of their proud mining heritage? A grant from Durham County Council's Labour local Councillor Tracie Smith has paid for the restoration of the banner and its fine oak case . This delicate silk […]
Redhills Miners’ Hall. Never Stop Learning: A Major North East Conference on Learning and Democracy
The Miners' Hall, Redhills, Durham Flass Street, Durham CityWhatever happened to Community Education or Life Long Learning? Who controls Learning now? How can adult education strengthen democracy?
NELH Tuesday Meeting. Lewis Mates will talk about the 1926 General Strike in the North East
Tyneside Irish Centre 43 Gallowgate, Newcastle upon Tyne, United KingdomLewis is Associate Professor of Political Theory at Durham University and author of The Great Political Unrest: rank-and file movements and political change in the Durham coalfield
Newcastle University: The British General Strike of 1926: New Directions of Research
Armstrong Building Newcastle University, Newcastle upon TyneThe Newcastle University Labour & Society Research Group are organising a conference on 'The British General Strike of 1926: New Directions of Research' at the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, Armstrong Building NE1 7RU on Thursday 7 and Friday 8 May and the programme and poster are attached. Tickets will be available on Thursday […]
North Shields: Stuart Barlow will give a talk about Robert Lowery – North Shields Forgotten Chartist Leader
The Old Low Light Clifford’s Fort, North Shields Fish Quay, North ShieldsRobert Lowery was a North Shields working man whose early life was a mixture of tragedy, hard work and crippling illness. He went on to become a leading Chartist and a speaker able to attract large crowds to fight for the Chartist cause. He spent almost half his life campaigning for the Charter and later […]