The Society's Christmas Quiz takes place next Tuesday 14 December at 7.00pm Peter Brabban and Pat Candon will test your historical knowledge (to its limit) and after that you are welcome to stay for the 'chat'. Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84946680511?pwd=NEdSNFdDd1JLZFEwS1ZwYTlYOHNJdz09 Meeting ID: 849 4668 0511 Passcode: 918050
Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86337404230?pwd=MEtySlM0WTB1amhNejJTdEV0aHEyZz09 Meeting ID: 863 3740 4230 Passcode: 361822 Our first Tuesday meeting of the year will take place on 25 January at 7.00pm when Mike Barke will talk the history of Newcastle-upon-Tyne based on his new book, Mapping the City (co-authored with Brian Robson and Anthony Champion). Newcastle has a long and […]
From Joanna Keith at the Workers Educational Association We are putting on a course about William Morris in the Morpeth Methodist Church on Saturday 29 January from 10.00am to 12.30 pm. The speaker is John Stirling (Vice-Chair of the William Morris Society and NELHS Committee Member). There is a fee of £8.00, reductions available. If […]
From David Connolly, Secretary, North East Labour History Society: To: NELHS Members and Supporters Our apologies for the short notice but this is to let you know that we are postponing our Zoom meeting on Using Trade Union Banners for Education: The Case of the 1938 'Red' Follonsby Miners' Banner which was due to take […]
From the Society for the Study of Labour History Chartism Day returns in March 2022 after an enforced absence of two years. This year’s event, held jointly with the Social History Society, is in honour of Professor Malcolm Chase, who died in February 2020. Malcolm was a great historian of Chartism, a stalwart of the […]
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In conjunction with the Orwell Society, we are hosting an in person meeting at the Tyneside Irish Centre, Friday 25 March at 7.30pm when Sylvia Topp will be in conversation with North East History editor, Rosie Serdiville about her recently published biography of Eileen O'Shaughnessy, Eileen: The Making of George Orwell. This meeting will also be livestreamed (see below). […]
BOOKING REQUIRED: BOOK HERE Suitable for ages 16+ Sylvia Topp, author of the novel Eileen: The Making of George Orwell, will be joining us at The Word to discuss her book which is the never before told story of George Orwell’s first wife, Eileen O’Shaughnessy, a woman born in South Shields who shaped, supported and […]
Apologies for this change of plan. This unveiling is now by invitation only as space is limited.
"A working class woman inside the walls of Westminster? If that is not espionage, I do not know what is." A Northern Stage, Nottingham Playhouse & Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh production Booking details here This remarkable new play from Caroline Bird tells the inspiring and epic story of Ellen Wilkinson, Labour MP, who was forever on […]