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  • March 2020

  • Tue 24

    Newcastle University: 2020 Festival of Oral History

    24 March 2020 - 26 March 2020
    Newcastle University

    We are delighted to announce the full programme for our 2020 Festival of Oral History, taking place across March 24-26. The festival will focus on the future of oral history, and will include a public keynote lecture by Dr Indira Chowdhury from the Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology in Bangalore. The festival will […]

  • Tue 24

    Tyne Bank Brewery: Five Centuries of the Tyne

    24 March 2020 @ 17:00 - 20:00
    Tyne Bank Brewery 375 Walker Rd, Byker,, Newcastle upon Tyne

    From Leona Skelton, Northumbria University I’ve organised a free Tyne history event with Tyne Rivers Trust at the Tyne Bank Brewery on Tuesday 24 March, 5.00pm - 8.00pm which I think NELHS members could get a lot out of, even though it’s focused on the management of the river first and foremost rather than labour history. […]

  • Fri 27

    CANCELLED – Jesmond Library: Eileen: The Making of George Orwell

    27 March 2020 @ 19:00
    Jesmond Library St George's Terrace, Newcastle upon Tyne

    This meeting has beeen cancelled as part of the measures to limit the Covid 19 outbreak. Eileen: The Making of George Orwell, an interview with biographer Sylvia Topp at Jesmond Library, St. Georges Terrace NE2 2DL on Friday 27 March at 7.00pm This is the never-before-told story of George Orwell’s first wife Eileen O’Shaughnessy, who […]

  • April 2020

  • Tue 7

    CANCELLED – First Tuesday: Janet Allen. The Miners Strike 1984/85 – my role as newly qualified solicitor with Thompsons

    7 April 2020 @ 19:00
    The Bridge Hotel Castle Square, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne & Wear, United Kingdom

    This meeting has beeen cancelled as part of the measures to limit the Covid 19 outbreak. Where possible, meetings will be rescheduled once this becomes possible. Notices will appear on this website as soon as this happens. In an effort to defeat the striking miners the government, judiciary and police used the law as a […]

  • May 2020

  • Tue 5

    CANCELLED – First Tuesday: John Charlton will talk about the 1931 general election

    5 May 2020 @ 19:00
    The Bridge Hotel Castle Square, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne & Wear, United Kingdom

    This meeting has beeen cancelled as part of the measures to limit the Covid 19 outbreak. Where possible, meetings will be rescheduled once this becomes possible. Notices will appear on this website as soon as this happens.

  • Tue 26

    Online History Courses from Ronnie Hanna

    26 May 2020 - 2 July 2020

    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: […]

  • June 2020

  • Tue 9

    CANCELLED – Second Tuesday: Nigel Todd will talk about the 1983 general election

    9 June 2020 @ 19:00
    The Bridge Hotel Castle Square, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne & Wear, United Kingdom

    This meeting has beeen cancelled as part of the measures to limit the Covid 19 outbreak. Where possible, meetings will be rescheduled once this becomes possible. Notices will appear on this website as soon as this happens.

  • August 2020

  • Tue 25

    Janet Allan will talk on The Miners Strike 1984/85 – my role as newly qualified solicitor with Thompsons (by Zoom, link to be circulated)

    25 August 2020 @ 19:00
    Zoom

    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 […]

  • September 2020

  • Tue 8

    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)

    8 September 2020 @ 19:00
    Zoom

    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 […]

  • October 2020

  • Sat 10

    Tommy Hepburn: Folk of Jarrow Commemoration on Saturday 10 October at the Joplin Monument at 10.30am.

    10 October 2020 @ 10:30
    Jobling Memorial Jarrow

    Please note that the planned Memorial Service on the 17 October has been cancelled.

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