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SUMMARY:North East Labour History Annual General Meeting. Huw Beynon and Ray Hudson (both former Durham University) on their new book\, The Shadow of The Mine
DESCRIPTION:Join Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/88917964686?pwd=QkJPMDl3Z3IyUnJneTlaQTl5bkZIZz09 \nMeeting ID: 889 1796 4686\nPasscode: 611389 \nThe rise and fall of Britain’s most important industry. No one personified the age of industry more than the miners. The Shadow of the Mine tells the story of King Coal in its heyday—and what happened to mining communities after the last pits closed. \nCoal was central to the British economy\, powering its factories and railways. It carried political weight\, too. In the eighties the miners risked everything in a year-long strike against Thatcher’s shutdowns. Defeat foretold the death of their industry. Tens of thousands were cast onto the labour market with a minimum amount of advice and support. \nToday\, British politics all of a sudden revolves around the coalfield constituencies which lent their votes to Boris Johnson’s Conservatives in 2019. Even in the Welsh Valleys\, where the “red wall” still stands\, support for the Labour Party has halved in a generation. \nHuw Beynon and Ray Hudson draw on decades of research to chronicle these momentous changes through the words of the people who lived through them.
URL:https://nelh.net/event/north-east-labour-history-anual-general-meeting-huw-beynon-and-ray-hudson-both-former-durham-university-on-their-new-book-the-shadow-of-the-mine/
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SUMMARY:Berwick Literary Festival\, Mike Fraser lectures: History Through a Northumbrian Lens
DESCRIPTION:Book at http://berwickea.org/event/history-through-a-northumbrian-lens-part-two/ \nThis 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 on tickets for the full course (see Tickets). This listing is for the full course; you can book individual lectures here. \nThe lectures are on Saturdays: Sept 4\, Sept 18 and Oct 2. \nOur earlier event\, History through a Northumbrian Lens: Part One looked at Sir William Beveridge\, Sir Edward Grey and Sir Charles Trevelyan. \nIn Part Two Mike will discuss John MacKay Wilson\, Lord Walter Runciman\, Thomas Burt and Mabel Philipson to similarly illuminate key issues in British history from electoral reform to the position of women in society. \nJohn MacKay Wilson\, best known for his Tales\, was also a successful Editor of the Berwick Advertiser. Discussion of his powerful editorials will provide a radical perspective on events at the time of the Great Reform Act 1832. \nLord Walter Runciman from Doxford Hall was a rather undistinguished politician when he was sent by Chamberlain to Czechoslovakia in August 1938\, but his subsequent report was crucial to the latter’s “Peace in our time” Munich agreement with Hitler. \nFinally\, Mike discusses the careers of two significant Northumbrian MPs. When Thomas Burt was elected as Liberal MP for Morpeth in 1874\, he was the first working class man to enter Parliament. In 1923 Mabel Philipson replaced her husband as MP for Berwick to become the third female MP to sit in the Commons. The first to be elected\, an Irish Nationalist\, had refused to take her seat. \nSept 4 – John MacKay Wilson \nSept 18 – Lord Walter Runciman \nOct 2 – Thomas Burt and Mabel Philipson \nMike will deliver illustrated talks and there will be ample time for debate about the contributions of these individuals during crucial periods of British history. \nLectures will be delivered via Zoom. If you haven’t used Zoom before\, please go to www.zoom.us and look at the tutorials. Once you have booked\, you will find the Zoom invitation in the Online Event Page on Eventbrite. You will also receive an email with the invitation 24 hours before the event. If you can’t find the invitation\, please email berwickea@gmail.com. \nIf you book this course online\, we will hold your personal data in accordance with our privacy policy. If you do not wish us to hold your personal data\, please book by post (see www.berwickea.org) and do not supply an email address.
URL:https://nelh.net/event/berwick-literary-festival-mike-fraser-lectures-history-through-a-northumbrian-lens/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210903T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210903T203000
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SUMMARY:Independent Labour Publications: The future of the union and the case for UK Federalism
DESCRIPTION:From Independent Labour Publications \nWith 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 and the case for UK Federalism and I’m pleased to say this will be theme of the ILP meeting this Friday 3 September at 7.00pm.  \nOur speakers will be: \n\nVince Mills\, Secretary of Glasgow Kelvin CLP and a member of the Red Paper Collective on Scottish politics after the Holyrood elections\nMick Antoniw\, Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution in the Welsh Government onPolitics in Wales after the Senedd elections\, and\nPauline Bryan\, member of Glasgow Kelvin CLP and Convenor of the Red Paper Collective on The case for UK federalism. Pauline is a Labour Peer appointed by Jeremy Corbyn as part of a group who are committed to the abolition of the House of Lords\n\nAnd here is the link: \nJoin Zoom Meeting \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/86185687922?pwd=eUdNQXVEaHdzYktubU9kcjdxcVZLdz09 \nMeeting ID: 861 8568 7922 \nPasscode: 870022 \nPlease note that this meeting is not being promoted on social media. \nLook forward to seeing you then. \nBest wishes\, \nDavid Connolly \nChair\, Independent Labour Publications \nhttps://www.independentlabour.org.uk/
URL:https://nelh.net/event/independent-labour-publications-the-future-of-the-union-and-the-case-for-uk-federalism/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210817T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210817T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T223938
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SUMMARY:Third Tuesday: Professor Alison Fell\, Striking Women: Women Trade Unionists in France and Britain during and after the First World War
DESCRIPTION: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 some case-studies of French and British working-class women whose initiation into trade unionism during the war led to political careers in the 1920s and 1930s. \nProfessor Alison Fell is Dean of the School of Histories\, Languages and Cultures at Liverpool University \nZoom link to be added.
URL:https://nelh.net/event/second-tuesday-alison-fell-liverpool-university-on-strikes-and-women-union-leaders-experiences-during-and-after-the-first-world-war/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210813T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210813T120000
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SUMMARY:Plaque Unveiling\, William Parker (1790-1858)\, Labourer\, Chelsea Pensioner\, and Chartist. Cumberland Arms\, Byker\, Newcastle
DESCRIPTION: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.\nThe commemorative plaque will be unveiled by the Lord Mayor of Newcastle at the Cumberland Arms public house\, James Place Street (off Byker Bank)\, Ouseburn\, Newcastle upon Tyne. \nDirections: Byker Metro Station or the bus stop outside Morrisons on Shields Road – Byker Bank is off the roundabout at the bottom of Shields Road; James Place Street is near the top of Byker Bank on the right (north) side of the road.
URL:https://nelh.net/event/plaque-unveiling-william-parker-1790-1858-labourer-chelsea-pensioner-and-chartist-cumberland-arms-byker-newcastle/
LOCATION:Cumberland Arms\, James Place Street\, Newcastle upon Tyne\, NE6 1LD
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday: Ruth Cohen will speak about ‘The Life and Work of Margaret Llewelyn Davies: Co-operative Movement Activist\, Feminist\, Socialist and Pacifist’.
DESCRIPTION:Zoom link:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/82172314164?pwd=YVd1SVlSdnFXaUdFY3Q1bFBsL2d2dz09\nMeeting ID: 821 7231 4164\nPasscode: 025456 \nMargaret Llewelyn Davies was General Secretary of the Women’s Co-operative Guild between 1889 and 1921\, a tumultuous period of social and political change. \nHer leadership was crucial to the Guild’s development into a unique national organisation of working class wives and mothers; as the Russian revolutionary Alexandra Kollontai said\, it gave the lie to the accepted wisdom that housewives could not be politicised. \nIn her time Margaret was a well known and highly respected campaigner both within and outside the Co-operative movement\, but she has since been undeservedly forgotten. \nThis talk will explore Margaret’s fascinating life\, her contribution to the Guild’s development and the pioneering campaigns which she led\, reflecting her particular combination of feminism and ethical socialism. These ranged from pressing for a Co-operative boycott of ‘sweated’ goods and for better pay for women employees to battling for votes for women\, for liberalised divorce laws\, state maternity provision – and more. \nTo illustrate it we will discuss the campaign to extend Co-operation to poor areas\, in the course of which she worked with the local Co-operative society in an experimental store and settlement in Sunderland. \nRuth is the author of Margaret Llewelyn Davies: With Women for a New World. Publisher’s information: “Margaret Llewelyn Davies (1861-1944)\, a co-operator\, feminist and socialist\, was well known in her time as the outstanding leader of the Women’s Co-operative Guild. This first full scale biography chronicles her life and achievements\, intertwining activity among working class women with her personal story. Margaret Llewelyn Davies’ system of education\, discussion and campaigning opened doors. Women became impressive activists\, committed to change both in the co-operative movement and the wider public world. As one Guild member put it\, ‘from a shy\, nervous woman the Guild made me a fighter’. The Guild flourished\, developing what has been termed a distinctively working class feminism. By 1914 the Manchester Guardian could describe it as ‘probably the most remarkable women’s organisation in the world’. The Guild pressed for boycotting ‘sweated’ goods\, supported trade unions\, battled for a minimum wage\, fought for the vote\, new divorce laws and for state maternity benefit to be paid to the wife. Cohen draws on original research: in newspapers\, the women’s pages of the Co-operative News\, Guild records\, unpublished papers\, and more. This book breaks new ground\, providing not only compelling insights into Margaret Llewelyn Davies’ life and politics\, but a fresh perspective on working class women’s activism\, rediscovering their words\, lives\, ideas and campaigns.” \n 
URL:https://nelh.net/event/second-tuesday-ruth-cohen-will-speak-about-the-life-and-work-of-margaret-llewelyn-davies-co-operative-movement-activist-feminist-socialist-and-pacifist/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210608T203000
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday: Tony Fox will talk about Teesside International Brigade
DESCRIPTION: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 Brigades’ on Tuesday 8 June at 7.00pm \nTopic: Teesside International Brigades Plaque\nTime: Jun 8\, 2021 07:00 PM London\nJoin Zoom Meeting:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/87335888047?pwd=N0h2V0VCTzJJTWZnUGhwWEpSbHlRdz09 \nMeeting ID: 873 3588 8047\nPasscode: 201272 \nThe Teesside International Brigades Memorial is an oak board with a triangular pediment top. The lettering and International Brigade crest are hand painted. It shows the International Brigades crest\, the names of ten volunteers who fell\, an inscription and a list of XV Brigade Battle Honours. \nThe text of the inscription reads: \nTO DEFEND LIBERTY  . . . they typified the real Britons’ hatred of the tyrant\, they went to safeguard peace and the arts of peace that humanity might go forward. They went to help the defenceless Spanish people fight the invading armies. They went to save their loved ones and us from the horrors of fascism because they loved peace they went out to fight from . . . TEES-SIDE \n The idea for a memorial arose during a 1939 meeting in the offices of the Young Communist League (YCL) in Middlesbrough\, on Marton Road\, it was to be a memorial to their friends and comrades who lost their lives fighting fascism with the International Brigades.
URL:https://nelh.net/event/first-tuesday-tony-fox-will-talk-about-teesside-international-brigade/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210504T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210504T203000
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SUMMARY:First Tuesday: Tosh Warwick will talk about Middlesbrough’s Steel Magnates in the Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries.
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Middlesbrough’s Steel Magnates\, Join Zoom Meeting \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/88010819818?pwd=WnBEeitRVXgrQnN3MTNyTkp0d3lMZz09 \nMeeting ID: 880 1081 9818\nPasscode: 474174 \nThe history of modern Teesside has been inextricably linked to the industrialists that led the businesses\, shaped the communities and established new charitable and philanthropic initiatives at the heart of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century manufacturing district. \nIn this talk by Heritage Unlocked’s Dr Tosh Warwick\, he explores the role of the industrial\, urban elite in everyday life\, civic culture and manufacturing enterprises along the River Tees. \nFocusing on the Bell and Dorman families\, he reveals their role in a range of developments still part of the local area today\, including the Tees Transporter Bridge\, civic buildings and museums. \nDr Tosh Warwick joined Manchester Metropolitan University in January 2019 as Research Associate (Impact) in the History Research Centre. Tosh was previously Research Associate in Urban Studies at the University of Glasgow\, lectured at Huddersfield\, Leeds Beckett and Teesside Universities and held a number of roles in the heritage sector including as Heritage Development Officer at Middlesbrough Council where he contributed to a number of major Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) supported regeneration projects. \n 
URL:https://nelh.net/event/first-tuesday-tosh-warwick-will-talk-about-middlesbroughs-steel-magnates-in-the-nineteenth-and-early-twentieth-centuries/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210504T173000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210504T183000
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SUMMARY:Durham University: Radical Histories panel discussion
DESCRIPTION: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 on Tuesday 4 May between 5.30 and 6.30pm. Register here – all welcome! \nHere’s the link on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/events/1051430605260613 \nRadical political movements today are often articulated via references to historic struggles in the past. Activists look to lost comrades and lost friends\, to generations of forebears that can offer powerful examples for the present. \nFinding friends in the past provides emotional sustenance and historic legitimacy for radical movements\, and uncovering radical pasts is a way of disrupting histories and narratives that insist on the marginalisation of certain stories. Study of these pasts can reveal the agency of ordinary people\, the brutality of elites\, and the victories achieved – as well as defeats suffered – by past radical movements. \nJohn Charlton\, Laura Forster\, and Theo Williams will discuss what radical history means to them in their work on labour history in the north east\, transnational political activism in the nineteenth century\, and Pan-Africanism and anti-imperialism. How might radical histories inform the radical movements of today? Can academic history be ‘radical’? What role do regional historical societies and community organisations play in preserving radical pasts? \nThe panellists will consider all of these questions and more as they explore the uses of radical history\, its limitations\, and its futures.
URL:https://nelh.net/event/durham-university-radical-histories-panel-discussion/
LOCATION:Facebook
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210501T113000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210501T153000
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SUMMARY:Mayday - Saturday 1 May
DESCRIPTION:Tyne & Wear May Day Committee are organising a big online event tomorrow\, the outline programme is below and this is the Facebook link: \nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/265356238636325/?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A[%7B%22mechanism%22%3A%22search_results%22%2C%22surface%22%3A%22search%22%7D]%7D \nAs many of you will know\, the Covid restrictions mean that we cannot hold the normal Tyne & Wear May Day march and rally this year\, but instead we are planning an online festival on Saturday 1 May. It will be broadcast on a number of Facebook pages\, including Tyne & Wear Mayday Rally\, and the programme will be something like this: \n11.30 – Welcome\, and historical film/photos\, with music \n12.00 – Invited speakers: Dave Ward (CWU general secretary)\, Chi Onwurah MP\, Fran Heathcote (PCS president) and Jamie Driscoll (North of Tyne Mayor). To be followed by a Q&A session. \n13.00 – Greetings received\, to be followed by more historical material \n13.40 – International Contributions \n13.55 – Music spot \n14.10 – Anti-racism/BLM/Asylum Rights: local speakers \n14.25 – Defending democracy: local speakers \n14.40 – Culture spot\, including poets reading their own work \n15.00 – People’s Assembly/Unemployment Fightback/Tyne & Wear Needs a Pay Rise: local speakers and videos \n15.15 – Music \n15.30 – Wrap up
URL:https://nelh.net/event/mayday-saturday-1-may/
LOCATION:Facebook
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210406T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210406T203000
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SUMMARY:First Tuesday: Mike Fraser will talk about Sir William Beveridge – the Man\, the Report and the Berwick Division
DESCRIPTION:This meeting replaces Hannah Kent’s planned talk: “One Aim\, One God\, One Destiny”? which has been cancelled. \n—————————————————————————————————————————————– \nSir William Beveridge was the hugely popular architect of the welfare state who became Liberal MP for Berwick in 1944 only to be swept away in the Labour landslide of 1945. Mike will discuss his early life\, his report\, the reasons for his defeat at Berwick and his subsequent career. \nJoin Zoom Meeting \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/86991301904?pwd=S1loS2tsMzZHdFRKa2sxa0cwM1VyQT09 \nMeeting ID: 869 9130 1904 \nPasscode: 149601 \nMike lives in Berwick-upon-Tweed and writes and lectures on Northumberland political life.
URL:https://nelh.net/event/first-tuesday-mike-fraser-will-talk-about-sir-william-beveridge-the-man-the-report-and-the-berwick-division/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210327T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210327T110000
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SUMMARY:Mike Fraser. History through a Northumbrian Lens: Sir Charles Trevelyan
DESCRIPTION:History through a Northumbrian Lens: Part One; Individual Lectures Tickets\, Sat 13 Mar 2021 at 10:00 | Eventbrite \nMike will examine the public and turbulent private lives of these three men in the context of key historical events: \n27 March – Sir Charles Trevelyan was a Liberal MP from a similar aristocratic background to Sir Edward Grey who opposed his policies in 1914 and bravely campaigned for peace. Later he resigned from the first two Labour cabinets because they were ‘too right-wing’. Subsequently he devoted himself to his estate which he famously ‘gave away to the nation’ in 1941.
URL:https://nelh.net/event/mike-fraser-history-through-a-northumbrian-lens-sir-charles-trevelyane/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210320T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210320T110000
DTSTAMP:20260403T223938
CREATED:20210307T145650Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210307T145724Z
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SUMMARY:Mike Fraser. History through a Northumbrian Lens: Sir Edward Grey
DESCRIPTION:History through a Northumbrian Lens: Part One; Individual Lectures Tickets\, Sat 13 Mar 2021 at 10:00 | Eventbrite \nMike will examine the public and turbulent private lives of these three men in the context of key historical events: \n20 March – Sir Edward Grey was Liberal MP for Berwick for over 30 years. He remains Britain’s longest serving Foreign Secretary and famously saw ‘the lamps going out’ in 1914. Mike will discuss his rise to power\, his role in the ‘July crisis’ of 1914 and his subsequent career.
URL:https://nelh.net/event/mike-fraser-history-through-a-northumbrian-lens-sir-edward-grey/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210317T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210317T153000
DTSTAMP:20260403T223938
CREATED:20210125T143655Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210213T121157Z
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SUMMARY:Professor Ralph Darlington: British Labour Movement Solidarity in the 1913–14 Dublin Lockout
DESCRIPTION:Ralph is giving this talk on behalf of the Working Class Movement Library: \nhttps://www.wcml.org.uk/whats-on/events/online-talk-british-labour-movement-solidarity-in-the-191314-dublin-lockout/ \nJoining details to follow on the above link.
URL:https://nelh.net/event/professor-ralph-darlington-british-labour-movement-solidarity-in-the-1913-14-dublin-lockout/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210313T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210313T110000
DTSTAMP:20260403T223938
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SUMMARY:Mike Fraser. History through a Northumbrian Lens: Sir William Beveridge
DESCRIPTION:History through a Northumbrian Lens: Part One; Individual Lectures Tickets\, Sat 13 Mar 2021 at 10:00 | Eventbrite \nMike will examine the public and turbulent private lives of these three men in the context of key historical events: \n13 March – Sir William Beveridge was the hugely popular architect of the welfare state who became Liberal MP for Berwick in 1944 only to be swept away in the Labour landslide of 1945. Mike will discuss his report\, the reasons for his defeat at Berwick and his subsequent career.
URL:https://nelh.net/event/history-through-a-northumbrian-lens-sir-william-beveridge/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210310T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210310T193000
DTSTAMP:20260403T223938
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SUMMARY:British Association for Local History Digital Webinar: How to grow your local history social media presence
DESCRIPTION:A one-hour webinar with BALH’s Social Media Fellow\, Daniella Gonzalez. \nDaniella will provide an introduction to the various social media platforms available and how local history societies can best use them to promote their work and engage with the wider history community. \nDetails and booking
URL:https://nelh.net/event/british-association-for-local-history-digital-webinar-how-to-grow-your-local-history-social-media-presence/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210302T173000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210302T190000
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SUMMARY:Professor John Bradshaw: Child poverty in the North East region. Event celebrating the life and contribution of Professor John Veit-Wilson
DESCRIPTION:Attendance details here \nProfessor John Veit-Wilson \nCelebrating the life and contribution of Professor John Veit-Wilson and the move of the North East Child Poverty Commission to Newcastle University\, this lecture will consider the evidence on the most recent trends and spatial distribution of child poverty in the North East\, reflecting on the strengths and weaknesses of that evidence\, in particular in the context of Covid-19. It will also include a review of the impact of the post-Covid interventions and prescribe an agenda for future action. \n  \n  \n  \nProfessor Jonathan Bradshaw \n  \n  \n  \nJonathan Bradshaw is Emeritus Professor of Social Policy at the University of York. He was appointed Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in 2005 for services to child poverty and Fellow of the British Academy in 2010. He is a Board member of the Child Poverty Action Group and Chair of their Policy Committee. \nLive Q&A:\nThe lecture will be followed by a live Q&A with the speaker. You can submit a question in advance by sending an email to public.lectures@ncl.ac.uk or during the event using YouTube Live Chat or via Twitter @InsightsNCL. \nThis event will be hosted on YouTube\, registration is not required.
URL:https://nelh.net/event/professor-john-bradshaw-child-poverty-in-the-north-east-region-event-celebrating-the-life-and-contribution-of-professor-john-veit-wilson/
LOCATION:You tube
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210213T100000
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DTSTAMP:20260403T223938
CREATED:20210114T114444Z
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SUMMARY:British Association for Local History Digital Workshop : (Postgrad students only) How to get your local history research out there!
DESCRIPTION:Please note that this session is only available to students registered on a recognised Masters or PhD course of study at an HEI. ECRs who are within 5 years of completing their PhD are also welcome to attend. \nDetails and booking \nWorkshop on Public Engagement and Collaborative Working (a student special) with Claire Kennan (BALH) \nPractical guidance on how academic research can be communicated to wider audiences\, the opportunities that are available for collaborative and partnership working and how your research can have an impact in the wider world. In particular\, it will focus on the specific support and opportunities offered by BALH ranging from writing blog posts to producing podcasts\, working with teachers\, local history societies\, museums and much more.
URL:https://nelh.net/event/british-association-for-local-history-digital-workshop-postgrad-students-only-how-to-get-your-local-history-research-out-there/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210202T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210202T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T223938
CREATED:20210114T113805Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210129T132758Z
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SUMMARY:First Tuesday: Paul Gailiunas on John Marshall: Printer\, Librarian and Radical
DESCRIPTION:Join Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83417499047?pwd=R2I3aG53b0NHZk1wa1JPU3J5TXZKZz09 \nMeeting ID: 834 1749 9047\nPasscode: 726616 \nJohn Marshall was very well-known in Gateshead and Newcastle in the first third of the nineteenth century\, and there are references to him in a variety of contexts. \nThe evidence that has survived contradicts some of the assumptions made by previous authors\, especially around the winter of 1816/1817\, when he first became politically active. Although politics seems to have become less important to him by the mid-1820s\, he was present at a political meeting in 1830\, and he printed radical material until 1831\, when his business collapsed and he disappears from the record. \nPaul Gailiunas took early retirement from teaching in 2007 and has researched and published on a variety of topics including local history.
URL:https://nelh.net/event/first-tuesday-paul-gailiunas-on-john-marshall-printer-librarian-and-radical/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210128T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210128T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T223938
CREATED:20210125T143229Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210125T143229Z
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SUMMARY:Book launch: Sylvia Pankhurst Natural Born Rebel
DESCRIPTION:Online book launch of this major new biography with author Rachel Holmes in conversation with historian Mary Davis \nRegister here https://www.marx-memorial-library.org.uk/event/289 \nBorn into one of Britain’s most famous activist families\, Sylvia Pankhurst was a natural rebel; a talented artist\, prolific writer and a newspaper editor. A free spirit and radical visionary\, history placed her in the shadow of her famous mother\, Emmeline\, and elder sister\, Christabel. Yet Sylvia Pankhurst was the most revolutionary of them all. \nSylvia found her voice fighting militantly for votes for women\, but the vote was just the beginning of her lifelong defence of human rights. From her early warnings of the rise of fascism in Europe\, to her campaigning against racism and championing of the liberation struggles in Africa and India\, Sylvia’s adventures in America\, Soviet Russia\, Scandinavia\, Europe and East Africa made her a true internationalist. She was one of the great minds of the modern era\, engaging with political giants\, including Churchill\, Lenin\, Rosa Luxemburg\, George Bernard Shaw\, W.E.B. Du Bois and Haile Selassie. \nHolmes argues that Pankhurst’s campaigning reached far beyond the suffragette movement and in Sylvia Pankhurst she interweaves the personal and political to reveal Sylvia Pankhurst as never before. \nAttendees will receive the zoom link via eventbrite 24 hours in advance.
URL:https://nelh.net/event/book-launch-sylvia-pankhurst-natural-born-rebel/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210112T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210112T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T223938
CREATED:20201208T114930Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201223T110643Z
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday: Professor Ralph Darlington\, Analysing the Contexts and Causes of the 1910-14 Labour Revolt
DESCRIPTION:Join Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/85812281578?pwd=WG90Y1Y5UFJYM1Vva003amYvcHBaQT09\nMeeting ID: 858 1228 1578\nPasscode: 383471 \nThe ‘Labour Unrest’ – or what more precisely should be termed ‘Labour Revolt’ – that swept Britain in the years leading up to the First World War between 1910 and 1914 was one of the most sustained\, dramatic and violent explosions of industrial militancy and social conflict the country has ever experienced. Most explanations for the causes of this strike wave have tended to focus almost exclusively on economic factors\, on the way in which the decline in real wages and purchasing power after 1900 and the sudden upturn in trade and employment after 1910 provided the major economic impetus for a series of wage demands that lead to strike action. Yet arguably\, even if the most commonly reported single cause of strikes was pay\, this hardly offers an adequate explanation\, by itself\, for the scale\, insurgent nature\, rank-and-file dynamic and broader political challenge of the industrial rebellion that swept Britain during this period. \nThis talk attempts to provide an understanding of the way in which there was a coalescence of a multifaceted set of interconnected contextual and casual elements (structure and agency) contributing to the process. Specifically it examines six features: the economic\, industrial and social backcloth; industrial relations and trade union framework; political context; bargaining capacity; leadership and mobilisation resources; and broader zeitgeist of defiance of the authorities and rule of law. In the process\, it assesses the limits and potential of George Dangerfield’s depiction in his celebrated book The Strange Death of Liberal England of a conjunction of three rebellions – by workers\, women and Irish nationalists – that had the cumulative effect of placing the country on the verge of semi-revolution. And there is consideration of the extent to which workers’ readiness to engage in militant strike action depended upon the subjective element – the encouragement they received from the minority of uncompromising working class socialist and syndicalist agitators and propagandists within their own ranks. \nRalph Darlington is Emeritus Professor of Employment Relations at the University of Salford. His research is concerned with the dynamics of trade union organisation\, activity and consciousness within both contemporary and historical settings. He is the author of The Dynamics of Workplace Unionism (Mansell 1994) and Radical Unionism: The Rise and Fall of Revolutionary Syndicalism (Haymarket 2013)\, co-author of Glorious Summer: Class Struggle in Britain 1972 (Bookmarks 2001) and editor of What’s the Point Of Industrial Relations: In Defence of Critical Social Science (2009). He is currently researching to write a book on the 1910-14 Labour Revolt to be published by Pluto Press. \n  \n 
URL:https://nelh.net/event/second-tuesday-professor-ralph-darlington-analysing-the-causes-of-the-1910-1914-labour-revolt/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201208T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201208T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T223938
CREATED:20201121T153010Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201208T114608Z
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SUMMARY:North East Labour History Society\, Zoom Annual Social
DESCRIPTION:Peter Brabban will do his traditional\, fiendish quiz. \nJoin Zoom Meeting \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/81241889086?pwd=RDIzREZBZGN6cE5GbjJtMTNKYjBzdz09 \nMeeting ID: 812 4188 9086 \nPasscode: 609726
URL:https://nelh.net/event/north-east-labour-history-society-annual-social/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201124T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201124T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T223938
CREATED:20201121T150803Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201121T153425Z
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SUMMARY:Fourth Tuesday. Nigel Todd will talk about The Excursionists: Who Will Fight For Garibaldi?
DESCRIPTION:Join Zoom Meeting:  \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84301417060?pwd=d2h5T1lpbHZuVWpwM25yM0V6eThLdz09 \n Meeting ID: 843 0141 7060 Passcode: 687904 \nThe International Brigade of the 1930s was not the first venture of its kind.  Garibaldi’s 1860 campaign to liberate and unify Italy also attracted international volunteers\, not least from Britain.  Several hundred\, including about 18 from Tyneside\, joined a ‘British Legion’ that supported Garibaldi in Sicily and Southern Italy. \nRecruited via Joseph Cowen’s Newcastle Daily Chronicle the Tynesiders overcame attempts to block their departure\, and played a part in Garibaldi’s advance on Naples to overthrow a distinctively despotic local regime. \nOne of the group John Eyre Macklin\, wrote a vivid account of his experiences in the campaign\, and of some of the people he met such as Jessie White Mario\, female Radical journalist\, a frequent speaker at Newcastle political meetings and known as ’the Florence Nightingale of the Garibaldian army.’ \nNigel is a Newcastle City Councillor\, chairs the UK Co-operative College and has published several books and articles on North East political history\, including an autobiography of Joseph Cowen\, and histories of anti-fascism\, and anarchist and socialist land colonies. \n Topic: Tyneside Volunteers for Garibaldi’s Army \n  \n  
URL:https://nelh.net/event/nigel-todd-will-talk-about-the-excursionists-who-will-fight-for-garibaldi/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201010T103000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201010T103000
DTSTAMP:20260403T223938
CREATED:20201002T172911Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201002T222538Z
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SUMMARY:Tommy Hepburn: Folk of Jarrow Commemoration on Saturday 10 October at the Joplin Monument at 10.30am.
DESCRIPTION:Please note that the planned Memorial Service on the 17 October has been cancelled.
URL:https://nelh.net/event/tommy-hepburn-folk-of-jarrow-commemoration-on-saturday-10-october-at-the-joplin-monument-at-10-30am/
LOCATION:Jobling Memorial\, Jarrow
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200908T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200908T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T223938
CREATED:20200806T171307Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200806T171413Z
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SUMMARY:The Annual General Meeting of the North East Labour History Society\, followed by Alex Niven: New Model Island: How to Build a Radical Culture Beyond the Idea of England (by Zoom\, agenda and link to be circulated)
DESCRIPTION:Please let us know if you would like to attend this meeting by clicking this link and giving us your email address and name. We will then contact you before the meeting with the Zoom link. \nPlease note that any member wishing to submit a change to the Constitution (see pages 187 – 188 of the 2019 Journal) must submit a motion in writing to the Secretary by 10 August. \nThe meeting will be followed by a talk by Alex Niven\, Lecturer in English at Newcastle University on his recently published book\, New Model Island: How to Build a Radical Culture Beyond the Idea of England \n\n\nIn the early twenty-first century\, “Englishness” suddenly became a hot topic. A rash of art exhibitions\, pop albums and coffee table books arrived on the scene\, all desperate to recover England’s lost national soul. But when we sweep away the patriotic stereotypes\, we begin to see that England is a country that does not — and perhaps should not — exist in any essential sense. \nIn this provocative text combining polemic and memoir\, Alex Niven argues that the map of the British Isles should be torn apart completely as we look towards a time of radical political reform. Rejecting outdated nationalisms\, Niven argues for a renovated model of culture and governance for the islands — a fluid\, dynamic version of regionalism preparing the way for a new “dream archipelago”. \n\n“One of the sharpest\, most unusual critics writing today\, and with this call for the end of England\, he has surpassed himself. Personal\, polemical and historical in equal measure\, this is a strange\, powerful and beautiful book.” \nOwen Hatherley
URL:https://nelh.net/event/the-annual-general-meeting-of-the-north-east-labour-history-society-followed-by-alex-niven-new-model-island-how-to-build-a-radical-culture-beyond-the-idea-of-england-by-zoom-agenda-and-link-to-b/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200825T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200825T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T223938
CREATED:20200806T170438Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200824T113908Z
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SUMMARY:Janet Allan will talk on The Miners Strike 1984/85 – my role as newly qualified solicitor with Thompsons (by Zoom\, link to be circulated)
DESCRIPTION:Please let us know if you would like to attend this meeting by clicking this link and giving us your email address and name. We will then contact you before the meeting with the Zoom link. \nIn an effort to defeat the striking miners the government\, judiciary and police used the law as a method of reducing the civil liberties of striking miners and their supporters by all possible means. \nRoad blocks were employed to intercept suspected pickets. Those arrested on the picket line faced draconian bail conditions often including curfews to prevent further demonstrations. Medieval charges of riot and unlawful assembly were used against those attending the mass pickets at both Orgreave and Mansfield. \nMike Mansfield the leading barrister at the Orgreave trials referred to the cases as “the worst example of mass frame up in this country in this century”. \nI joined Thompsons in September 1983 and Bill Etherington\, then General Secretary of the Durham Colliery Mechanics Association instructed Thompsons to be the union lawyers. The Durham NUM followed later. I represented two Durham Mechanics arrested at Orgreave and one at Mansfield. \nMy day to day experience of representing striking miners during the period from March 1984 to March 1985 will form the basis of this presentation.
URL:https://nelh.net/event/janet-allen-will-talk-on-the-miners-strike-1984-85-my-role-as-newly-qualified-solicitor-with-thompsons-on-tuesday-25-august-at-7-00pm-by-zoom-link-to-be-circulated/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200609T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200609T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T223938
CREATED:20200301T172247Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200315T125445Z
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED - Second Tuesday: Nigel Todd will talk  about the 1983 general election
DESCRIPTION:This meeting has beeen cancelled as part of the measures to limit the Covid 19 outbreak. \nWhere possible\, meetings will be rescheduled once this becomes possible. Notices will appear on this website as soon as this happens.
URL:https://nelh.net/event/second-tuesday-nigel-todd-will-talk-about-the-1983-general-election/
LOCATION:The Bridge Hotel\, Castle Square\, Newcastle upon Tyne\, Tyne & Wear\, NE1 1RQ\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200526
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200704
DTSTAMP:20260403T223938
CREATED:20200509T120527Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200509T173538Z
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SUMMARY:Online History Courses from Ronnie Hanna
DESCRIPTION:Ronnie Hanna has asked us to mention these three online history courses which may be of interest to some of our members and supporters. The courses were originally part of Queen’s University Belfast’s Open Learning Programme for the spring\, which was cancelled due to the current situation. If you are interested\, please contact Ronnie at: ronnie.hanna@btinternet.com \n26 May:  The American Presidency in the Twentieth Century \n29 June:  A City Upon a Hill: The Pilgrim Fathers and America’s Puritan Legacy \n2 July:     The Korean War \n 
URL:https://nelh.net/event/online-history-courses-from-ronnie-hanna/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200505T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200505T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T223938
CREATED:20200301T172435Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200315T125508Z
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED - First Tuesday: John Charlton will talk about the 1931 general election
DESCRIPTION:This meeting has beeen cancelled as part of the measures to limit the Covid 19 outbreak. \nWhere possible\, meetings will be rescheduled once this becomes possible. Notices will appear on this website as soon as this happens.
URL:https://nelh.net/event/first-tuesday-john-charlton-will-talk-about-the-1931-general-election/
LOCATION:The Bridge Hotel\, Castle Square\, Newcastle upon Tyne\, Tyne & Wear\, NE1 1RQ\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200407T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200407T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T223938
CREATED:20191103T152639Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200315T125536Z
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED - First Tuesday: Janet Allen. The Miners Strike 1984/85 – my role as newly qualified solicitor with Thompsons
DESCRIPTION:This meeting has beeen cancelled as part of the measures to limit the Covid 19 outbreak.\nWhere possible\, meetings will be rescheduled once this becomes possible. Notices will appear on this website as soon as this happens.\nIn an effort to defeat the striking miners the government\, judiciary and police used the law as a method of reducing the civil liberties of striking miners and their supporters by all possible means. \nRoad blocks were employed to intercept suspected pickets. Those arrested on the picket line faced draconian bail conditions often including curfews to prevent further demonstrations. Medieval charges of riot and unlawful assembly were used against those attending the mass pickets at both Orgreave and Mansfield. \nMike Mansfield the leading barrister at the Orgreave trials referred to the cases as “the worst example of mass frame up in this country in this century”. \nI joined Thompsons in September 1983 and Bill Etherington\, then General Secretary of the Durham Colliery Mechanics Association instructed Thompsons to be the union lawyers. The Durham NUM followed later. I represented two Durham Mechanics arrested at Orgreave and one at Mansfield. \nMy day to day experience of representing striking miners during the period from March 1984 to March 1985 will form the basis of this presentation. \n 
URL:https://nelh.net/event/first-tuesday-janet-allens-experiences-as-a-newly-qualified-solicitor-during-the-1984-85-miners-strike/
LOCATION:The Bridge Hotel\, Castle Square\, Newcastle upon Tyne\, Tyne & Wear\, NE1 1RQ\, United Kingdom
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