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CANCELLED. NELH Tuesday Meeting: Peter Smith, The effects of Deindustrialisation on a 1960’s Railway Town

Zoom

Our apologies, a last-minute technical problem means we cannot go ahead with tonight's meeting. Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82824674327?pwd=ckUvQkt4MStLUzRwVjQ5UHdtSzhlZz09 Meeting ID: 828 2467 4327 Passcode: 172736 I was born in Ashington, where I lived within view of the colliery shunting yard and a lifelong obsession with railways was born. I did however spend most of my […]

Durham University. Liam Liburd: HistoryNow! Pride Month Event – A Queer Tale for the Silver Screen: Projections from the Archive of a Gay WWII Movie Star

Room PG20, Pemberton Building Palace Green, Durham City

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 am responsible for arranging history-related public events across the academic year. You very kindly shared the details of our Black History Month event with your contacts in October […]

NELH Monday Meeting. Liz O’Donnell: Radicalism Or Faddicalism? The 19th Century Vegetarian Movement In North-East England

Tyneside Irish Centre 43 Gallowgate, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

What do Pythagoras, Shelley, Keir Hardie, Gandhi, Einstein and Hitler have in common? Was the 19th century vegetarian movement inherently radical, challenging established political and cultural structures, or simply a promoter of a joyless, puritanical way of life, designed to drive down wages for working people? Were vegetarians harmless enthusiasts or a danger to British […]

Washington Arts Centre. Sunderland Film Club presents… The Miners’ Hymns + Performance

Arts Centre Washington Biddick Lane, Washington

A special film showing and performance commemorating mining history as part of the Washington 60 celebrations (and of course timed to tie in with the Miners' Gala). Tickets £5 Join us at Arts Centre Washington this July for a screening of Bill Morrison’s mesmerising elegy to the Durham coalfields – The Miners’ Hymns. Combining rarely-seen […]

NELH First Tuesday, Tyneside Irish Centre. Mike Fraser: Sir Charles Trevelyn & The Irish Famine, ‘The Victorian Cromwell’

Tyneside Irish Centre 43 Gallowgate, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Sir Charles Trevelyan of Wallington in Northumberland was a highly successful British Civil Servant who is best remembered in Britain for his involvement in the modernization of the Civil Service. In Ireland he is however remembered as the man responsible for the relief of the ‘Great Hunger’ during which a million people died and even […]

NELH Annual General Meeting, Lit and Phil, Newcastle. Joe Redmayne will talk about his research project on Women and Shipbuilding

The Lit & Phil 23 Westgate Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Annual General Meeting. There will be refreshments. Presentation of the Sid Chaplin prize This year’s prize is awarded to Abbie Urquhart-Arnold, a student at Newcastle University for her dissertation, “Hark to the agonizing wail”: The Power of Ballads and Elegies in Unveiling the Grief of Widows and their Families following the 1880 Seaham Pit disaster […]

NELH Tuesday Meeting. Val Scully will talk about her new book The Wheel of Time: a people’s history of Stella and Blaydon Burn

Tyneside Irish Centre 43 Gallowgate, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Between Blaydon and Ryton, on the south bank of the Tyne, is a square mile which is astonishingly packed with rich, varied and significant social and industrial history. The area’s surprising international links are not only due to the presence of Joseph Cowen, but also Stella’s place in the history of English Catholicism. Local historian […]