Sunderland Community Lectures 2019
Why waste a day in the house? Woodwork paints itself if you leave it long enough….Your son will do the ironing….Gardens benefit from neglect and abandonment….Someone else will do the […]
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Events
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University of Sunderland's Sir Tom Cowie Lecture Theatre St Peter's Way, Sunderland
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NELHS Event, Tantobie Community Centre, Peter Brabban: The War came early to Sleepy Valley
Tantobie Community Centre The Playing Fields, Tantobie -
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Newcastle University: Annual Chartism Day Conference 2019
Room 2.16. Armstrong Building Queen Victoria Road, Newcastle upon TyneChartism 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 […]
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Commemoration: Seven Men of Jarrow
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 […]
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NELHS First Tuesday: Andy Clark will take ‘A historical look at modern apprenticeships: Sigmund Pumps Wartime Apprenticeship Scheme’
Old George Inn Old George Yard, NewcastleSigmund 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 […]
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South Shields: Exhibition to Commemorate the 200th Anniversary of the St Hilda’s Pit Disaster
St Hilda's Pit Head Henry Robson Way, South ShieldsFrom Sue King St Hilda's Pit Head has been restored by the Tyne and Wear Restoration Trust and is now used as a community centre, focussing on the arts. There […]
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Tyneside Irish Centre: Book Launch: New Edition of SHAFTED: The Media, the Miners’ Strike and the Aftermath
Tyneside Irish Centre 43 Gallowgate, Newcastle upon Tyne, United KingdomThe first edition of Shafted was published on the 25th anniversary of the miners’ strike. So much has happened over the last decade: cabinet paper revelations on the government’s role […]
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Newcastle City Library: The North East of England African Association presents The Windrush Story with Music & Poetry
Bewick Hall Newcastle City Library, Newcastle upon TyneOpened by Chi Onwurah MP Performance by Khadijah Ibrahim (Author & Poet) Presentation by Edwina Forde & Dr Prevatt Goldstein Includes refreshments – bookings at info.neeaca@gmail.com
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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 […]