North East Labour History
Join Education4Action in celebrating the songs and politics of the Durham Coalfield with the Folk Music singer/songwriters The Elliot’s of Birtley, and Benny Graham, Pitmen Poet and giant of the […]
From Peter Sagar Sunderland Minster, 6.30pm, 11 July As some of you are aware, 11th July marks the 28th anniversary of the terrible genocide at Srebrenica in Bosnia when 8372 […]
Through an account of the relationship between picket lines and drivers in Britain, this talk thinks about questions of mobility in labour history. It focuses on three moments in this […]
Wednesday, July 26 @ 2pm & 6.30pm The Hub, Cramlington We had 160 at the meetings about the Cramlington Train Wreckers on March 30 and the follow-up film/talk in July […]
Behind every great man there’s a great woman, or so goes the old adage. Phyllis Short was the wife of George Short, the Communist Party District Secretary for Teesside, but […]
The date of our AGM has been moved from 12 September to Thursday 7 September. It will be held at the Newcastle Lit and Phil. The speakers will be Victoria […]
Tuesday 26th September at the Lit & Phil at 6.00pm Booking: Lit & Phil Members only until 4th September. In association with Yale University Press Presented by Robert Gildea A […]
This talk will reflect on the politicisation of unemployment across UK towns and cities in the early 1980s. With a particular focus on trade union and community organising, the presentation […]
From Liam Liburd: My name is Liam Liburd and I'm the Assistant Professor of Black British History at Durham University. I'm also the Department of History's Public History Officer and […]
From Martin Levy The annual 'Volunteers for Liberty' event, to commemorate the volunteers from the North East who gave their lives fighting in the International Brigade in Spain, will be held […]