North East Labour History
Scholarship surrounding the history of the North East is dominated by its industrial heritage, and more specifically, the global reputation it held for shipbuilding. Existing scholarship on Lord Armstrong’s shipbuilding […]
Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82214641133?pwd=c2VMaVF5U000bXpSeWJjZnRGUytKZz09 Meeting ID: 822 1464 1133, Passcode: 046096 The 1932 Kinder Scout Mass Trespass is mired in myth and controversy but Keith Warrender, author of the recently […]
Please note this meeting will now be in Lecture Room at the Newcastle Lit & Phil. Agenda 1. Welcome from the Chair 2. Apologies for Absence 3. Election of the […]
In this session, Donna Chambers, Professor of Creative and Cultural Industries at Northumbria University will discuss the origins of the African Lives in Northern England project focusing on its aims, […]
From Dr Liam J Liburd, Durham University I'm writing as the new Public History Officer at Durham University's Department of History to spread the news about our upcoming History Now! event to […]
From: Dr. Patrick M Kuhn (PI), Proff. Gidon Cohen and Nick Vivyan and Drs. Luke Blaxill, Gary Hutchison We would like to invite you to ‘Riots and Roughs: The Violent Origins of […]
From Martin Levy You are invited to attend the annual commemoration for the volunteers from the North East who gave their lives fighting in the International Brigades against fascism in Spain. […]
My talk looks at the harsh winter of 1962/3 as a watershed period when the stuffy, conformist 1950s gave way to the liberal and progressive 1960s. The winter weather is […]
I am a Labour Party member in St Michaels Branch of the Sunderland Central CLP. The branch has organised a social history conference, The Struggle for a Better Britain 1900 […]
From Trevor Bark A broad range of literature, books and ephemera, and will be on display. As well as a bar there will be an open and tolerant atmosphere, where […]