Tyne & Wear May Day Committee are organising a big online event tomorrow, the outline programme is below and this is the Facebook link: https://www.facebook.com/events/265356238636325/?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A%7D As many of you will […]
Radical Histories, an online panel discussion as part of the History Now! series of public talks organised between the Durham University History Department and the Gala Theatre, Durham, takes place […]
Topic: Middlesbrough's Steel Magnates, Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88010819818?pwd=WnBEeitRVXgrQnN3MTNyTkp0d3lMZz09 Meeting ID: 880 1081 9818 Passcode: 474174 The history of modern Teesside has been inextricably linked to the industrialists that led the […]
Tony Fox, a member of the International Brigades Memorial Trust who lives in Billingham will give a talk on ‘A complete history of the memorial plaque to the Teesside International […]
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82172314164?pwd=YVd1SVlSdnFXaUdFY3Q1bFBsL2d2dz09 Meeting ID: 821 7231 4164 Passcode: 025456 Margaret Llewelyn Davies was General Secretary of the Women’s Co-operative Guild between 1889 and 1921, a tumultuous period of social […]
William Parker was a leading advocate of the 'The People's Charter' in the 1830s and later championed the rights of pensioners and the poor in general. The commemorative plaque will […]
This talk will consider why and how women went on strike during the First World War. It will also explore the longer-term legacies of wartime industrial action, considering in particular […]
From Independent Labour Publications With tensions rising between the Westminster government and the devolved governments in Cardiff and Edinburgh it’s an opportune time to consider The future of the union […]
Book at http://berwickea.org/event/history-through-a-northumbrian-lens-part-two/ This is a series of three one-hour lectures by Mike Fraser, organised in association with Berwick Literary Festival. Patrons of the Festival are entitled to a 50% discount […]
Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88917964686?pwd=QkJPMDl3Z3IyUnJneTlaQTl5bkZIZz09 Meeting ID: 889 1796 4686 Passcode: 611389 The rise and fall of Britain’s most important industry. No one personified the age of industry more than the […]