North East Labour History
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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. In an effort to defeat the striking miners the government, judiciary and police used the law as a method […]
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. Please note that any member wishing to submit a change to the Constitution (see pages 187 – 188 of […]
Please note that the planned Memorial Service on the 17 October has been cancelled.
Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84301417060?pwd=d2h5T1lpbHZuVWpwM25yM0V6eThLdz09 Meeting ID: 843 0141 7060 Passcode: 687904 The 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 […]
Peter Brabban will do his traditional, fiendish quiz. Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81241889086?pwd=RDIzREZBZGN6cE5GbjJtMTNKYjBzdz09 Meeting ID: 812 4188 9086 Passcode: 609726
Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85812281578?pwd=WG90Y1Y5UFJYM1Vva003amYvcHBaQT09 Meeting ID: 858 1228 1578 Passcode: 383471 The ‘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 […]
Online book launch of this major new biography with author Rachel Holmes in conversation with historian Mary Davis Register here https://www.marx-memorial-library.org.uk/event/289 Born 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 […]
Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83417499047?pwd=R2I3aG53b0NHZk1wa1JPU3J5TXZKZz09 Meeting ID: 834 1749 9047 Passcode: 726616 John 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. The evidence that has survived contradicts some of the assumptions made by previous authors, especially around […]
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. Details and booking Workshop on Public Engagement and Collaborative Working (a student special) with Claire Kennan (BALH) […]