Newcastle University. Conference: The Global Challenge of Peace: 1919 as a Contested Threshold to a New World Order
2019-05-17 12:30 - 2019-05-18 16:00 UTC | Room 2.16. Armstrong Building, Queen Victoria Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 8QB
Free admission, please register: matt.perry@newcastle.ac.uk

Organised by Labour and Society Research Group and Conflict and Revolution Research Strand of Newcastle University

Friday 17 May 2019
12.30 – 13.00 Registration and Coffee
13.00 – 14.30 Panel 1: The Dynamics of Contention in 1919, Chair: TBC
Jacopo Perazzoli (University of Milan): The General Strike of July 1919: Lenin, Wilson and their Influences on Italian Socialism
Jude Murphy (WEA) and Nigel Todd (WEA): How did military/civilian dynamics shape matters with the return and demobilisation of millions of military personnel?
Gordon J Barclay and Louise Heren (Independent Scholars): The Battle for George Square, 1919: myth, memory and reality in Red Clydeside
14.30– 15.00 Tea and Coffee
15.00 – 15.45 Keynote Lecture – Chair: Máire Cross
Professor Tyler Stovall (University of California, Santa Cruz): The Black and the Red: the Elaine, Arkansas Massacre of 1919.
16.00 – 17.30 Panel 2: Contentious Politics from Below, Chair: TBC
Professor Claudia Baldoli (University of Milan): “Do as in Russia”: The Italian Peasant Movement in 1919
Matt Perry (Newcastle University): The 1919 mutinies in the French Armed Forces: Colonialism, Ethnicity and the Remaking of the French left
Professor Máire Cross (Newcastle University): Blessed are the peacemakers! The presence of ideas of nineteenth-century French socialists in twentieth-century pacifism
Reception / Dinner

Saturday 18 May 2019: ARMB 2.16
09.30 – 11.00 Panel 3: Colonialism and Race
Chair: Joe Redmayne
Neelam Srivastava (Newcastle University): Sylvia Pankhurst in 1919: Feminism, communism, and Interwar Internationalism
Paul Griffin and Elizabeth Martin (Northumbria University): The “Race Riots” of 1919: Within and Beyond Exceptional Moments in Glasgow and South Shields
Willow Berridge (Newcastle University): Iraqi Perspective on Gertrude Bell
11.00 – 11.30 Tea and Coffee
11.30 – 13.00 Panel 4: Reaction and Non-Reaction
Chair: Rob Dale
Christopher Loughlin (Newcastle University): The Forward March of Reactionary Working-Class Politics? Democratic Authoritarianism and “Modernity” in Britain and Ireland, 1919
Professor Tim Kirk (Newcastle University): 1919: Revolution, Counter-revolution and Fascism in Austria.
Jeffrey Johnson (Providence College): The “Soviet Ark” in Context: The Buford and the Anti-Radicalism of 1919
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 15.30 Panel 5: Transnational Interactions in 1919
Chair: Matt Perry
Sarah Hellawell (Sunderland University): Women as Peacemakers: The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom in Zurich, 1919
Megan Trudell (Newcastle University): Soldiers, Veterans and Volunteers for Gabriele D’annunzio’s occupation of Fiume
Estela Rukseniene (Independent Scholar): British Military Missions as Intermediaries between Western Europe and Lithuania in 1919-1920s.
15.30 – 16.00 Closing Comments (Rob Dale)

Lit and Phil: Remembering Dr Eric Wade (1939-2018), a Commemoration
2019-05-17 14:30 - 16:30 | The Lit & Phil, 23 Westgate Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 1SE, United Kingdom
As you may know, sadly, Dr Eric Wade passed away last year. We are planning the above event where we’ll be sharing memories and stories about Eric.
We have arranged a programme of speakers who knew him well. However, if you’d like to add your own informal stories about Eric, then please email Mick Goulding, our MC, and we’ll happily arrange to have them included on the day. Mick’s email is: michael.goulding00@gmail.com
Light refreshments will be available.
If you would like to come along then could you please let Harold Dobson (email: hfdobson@btinternet.com) know for seating and catering purposes.

Sunderland Community Lectures 2019
2019-05-22 14:00 - 2019-08-21 14:00 | University of Sunderland’s Sir Tom Cowie Lecture Theatre, St Peter's Way, Sunderland, SR1 3SD
Why waste a day in the house? Woodwork paints itself if you leave it long enough….Your son will do the ironing….Gardens benefit from neglect and abandonment….Someone else will do the cooking….
What else can you do…?
Come along to the Sunderland Community Lectures which are running throughout Summer 2019 and which are themed around “Crossings” because of the opening of the new cable-stayed Northern Spire Bridge
The Sunderland Community Lectures are free. They are on Wednesday afternoon in the University of Sunderland’s Sir Tom Cowie Lecture Theatre, Prospect Building, Sir Tom Cowie Campus at St Peter’s, St Peter’s Way, Sunderland SR1 3SD.
The lectures begin on 22 May commencing at 2.30pm and are approximately one hour in duration. They run through to 21 August. Do arrive in the Prospect Building between 2.00pm – 2.30pm to register before the lecture begins.
There is (pay) parking in the grounds of the campus. The St. Peter’s Metro Station is within a few minutes walking distance. Alternatively a regular bus service runs from the Park Lane Bus Station to St Peter’s Campus itself.
Come along, better still – come along and bring a friend!
Stuart Miller
PROGRAMME
22nd May The Causes of the Tay Bridge Disaster (Eric Fletcher) (When the Tay Bridge was opened on the 1st June 1878 it was described as a marvel of Victorian engineering. Seven months later during a violent storm the central part of the bridge collapsed plunging a train and 75 people, 85ft down into the Tay. The lecture will look at how the design, construction, operation and maintenance of the bridge contributed to the disaster and the crucial role played by the personality of designer Thomas Bouch)
5th June From Tyne to Tweed in old postcards (George Nairn) (Having made other journeys in County Durham by old postcards in previous lectures George will now undertake a journey from the Tyne to the Tweed along “Northumberland’s lordly strand”)
19th June The Lake Baikal Ferry (Alan Owen) (In 1895 a contract between the Russian Imperial Government and Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth & Co Ltd was signed for a unique icebreaking ferry to operate on Lake Baikal as part of the new Trans-Siberian Railway. By June 1896 it had been delivered in flat-pack form. It was launched in 1899 and operated until 1918. This lecture will describe how the crossing of the largest freshwater lake in the world was achieved through the skills of North East Engineers)
17th July The Biddick Ferryman (David Inch) (In the 18th Century a ferry-boat service operated between North and South Biddick on the River Wear. For a period the ferryman was a man named James Drummond. Was he a simple ferryman or was he someone of quite amazing status ? This talk explores a fascinating local legend)
7th August Crossing the Tyne (Pat Lowery) (The Romans built the first bridge over the Tyne and a fort to protect the crossing. Since then several bridges and tunnels have been built to transport people and goods from one side to the other. This lecture will look at some of the river crossings both above and below the river, their construction and use, and stories of the people who built and used them)
21st August The Wearmouth Bridge (Stuart Miller) (The first Wearmouth Bridge at Sunderland was the second iron bridge in the world, and much more ambitious than that at Ironbridge. It was soon added to the “bucket list” of contemporary travellers. This talk will explore the background to the building of the bridge, describe its novel construction and outline the intriguing controversy about who was responsible for the design)

NELHS Event, Tantobie Community Centre, Peter Brabban: The War came early to Sleepy Valley
2019-05-24 18:00 | Tantobie Community Centre, The Playing Fields, Tantobie, DH9 9TJ

Various Venues: Carrying David, Ed Waugh's newest play about NE boxer Glenn McCrory and his brother David
2019-05-31 14:30 - 2019-06-09 19:30 | Various North East Venues

Newcastle University: Annual Chartism Day Conference 2019
2019-06-01 09:00 - 17:00 | Room 2.16. Armstrong Building, Queen Victoria Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 8QB
Chartism 2019 – Booking Form
9.00–9.15 Registration.
9.15–9.30 Introduction and Welcome (Joan Allen and Richard Allen, Newcastle).
9.30–10.15 Tom Scriven (Manchester). ‘Chartism’s electoral strategy and the bifurcation of Radicalism’.
10.15–11.00 Joan Allen (Newcastle). ‘Chartist trials, 1839: Revisited’.
Break
11.30–12.15 Mike Greatbatch. (Independent). ‘William Parker: A Chartist Life’.
12.15-13.00 Joe Stanley (Sheffield Hallam). ‘Protest and Popular Politics amongst the Yorkshire Miners, 1786-1839’.
Lunch
2.00–3.00 Keynote Lecture: Robert Poole (UCLAN). ‘Peterloo and Chartism’ – title tbc
3.00–3.45 Mark Bennett (Durham). ‘Chartism’s legacy: the reform debate in Yorkshire, 1859-67’.
Break
4.15-5.00 Matt Roberts (Sheffield Hallam). ‘The Visual and Material Culture of Chartism’.
End of Conference
Sponsors: with grateful thanks to School of History, Classics and Archaeology, Newcastle University, and The Society for the Study of Labour History

Commemoration: Seven Men of Jarrow
2019-06-01 13:00 - 2019-06-02 12:30
A commemoration of the dark events of the 1830s & a celebration of the lives of these men, found guilty of conspiracy by a Durham Judge. Sentenced to the penal colonies for life, and transported in irons to Botany Bay, leaving their families behind to fend for themselves.
On Saturday 1 June from 1.00pm, join musicians and singers for music and songs of the Coalfield & River with an address by the esteemed Mr Joseph Waddle at the Jarrow Gin and Ale House, 73 Walter Street, Jarrow NE32 3PQ.
On Sunday 2 June at 9.15 – 10.15am, Wreath Laying and speeches at the Jobling Memorial, Tyne Street, Jarrow NE32 3DX followed by a march led by the Felling Silver Band at 10.30am from Jarrow Town Hall to Drewitts Park.

NELHS First Tuesday: Andy Clark will take 'A historical look at modern apprenticeships: Sigmund Pumps Wartime Apprenticeship Scheme'
2019-06-04 19:00 | Old George Inn, Old George Yard, Newcastle, NE1 1EZ
Sigmund Pump Apprentices at a 2016 Reunion
In this paper, I will discuss the Gateshead-based Sigmund Pumps Wartime Apprenticeship Scheme. Utilising archive materials and new oral history interviews with five wartime apprentices, I will examine the impact of the apprenticeship scheme on those involved. The Sigmund scheme was unique in that it was based on a more modern approach to skill training than was common in engineering at the time; apprentices were paid, they attended college, were trained in a number of engineering-related skills, and were provided with meals, medical check-ups and summer camps. This model was imported from Sigmund’s plants in Czechoslovakia – from where Miroslav Sigmund had fled Nazi invasion – and is one of the earliest ‘modern apprenticeships’ in a British context. This paper will examine how the scheme is reflected on by those involved, and in particular consider its impact on their subsequent career trajectories.
Andy Clark is a Research Associate with the Newcastle Oral History Collective. His research predominantly focuses on the impacts of deindustrialisation, particularly through an analysis of feminist, working-class radicalism in response to factory closure.

South Shields: Exhibition to Commemorate the 200th Anniversary of the St Hilda's Pit Disaster
2019-06-11 12:00 - 2019-06-13 13:00 | St Hilda’s Pit Head, Henry Robson Way, South Shields, NE33 1RF
From Sue King
St Hilda’s Pit Head has been restored by the Tyne and Wear Restoration Trust and is now used as a community centre, focussing on the arts.
There is an exhibition there of paintings by local artists to commemorate the pit disaster when 51 men and boys were killed. Both building and exhibition are well worth a visit. The exhibition is open next week as follows:
Tuesday 11 June 12.00 – 2.00
Wednesday 12 June 11.00 – 2.00
Thursday 13 June 10.00 – 1.00
The address is:
St Hilda’s Pit Head
Henry Robson Way
South Shields
NE33 1RF
It is opposite Wickes where you can park (maximum time 90 minutes)

Tyneside Irish Centre: Book Launch: New Edition of SHAFTED: The Media, the Miners’ Strike and the Aftermath
2019-06-19 19:00 | Tyneside Irish Centre, 43 Gallowgate, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 4SG, United Kingdom
The first edition of Shafted was published on the 25th anniversary of the miners’ strike. So much has happened over the last decade: cabinet paper revelations on the government’s role in the strike; the establishment of the Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign; and a renewed interest in the Women Against Pit Closures pit camps set up in the wake of the October 1992 announcement of 31 pits closing with the loss of 31,000 jobs.
Come along to hear from people who have contributed to this new edition.
Speakers
Julian Petley was one of the authors of Media Hits The Pits produced by the CPBF in 1985. His chapter in Shafted ‘Taking Liberties with Taking Liberties’ explores reactions by BBC top brass to the Open Space programme made with Sheffield Police Watch which went out in November 1984. He is Professor of Film and Television at Brunel University.
Jean Spence was an active participant in the Vane Tempest Vigil in Seaham in 1993 and co-authored, with Carol Stephenson, the chapter ‘It has to be a miners’ wife!’ Representing women in mining activism.
Granville Williams edited both editions of Shafted. He is the co-ordinator of CPBF (North) and editor of MediaNorth.
WEDNESDAY 19 JUNE at 7.00PM
ADMISSION FREE – PLUS IRISH STEW AND VEGETARIAN OPTION
Tyneside Irish Centre, 43 Gallowgate, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 4SG
Meeting organised by Campaign for Press & Broadcasting (North) and NUJ Newcastle Branch

Newcastle City Library: The North East of England African Association presents The Windrush Story with Music & Poetry
2019-06-22 13:00 - 15:00 | Bewick Hall, Newcastle City Library, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 8AX
Opened by Chi Onwurah MP
Performance by Khadijah Ibrahim (Author & Poet)
Presentation by Edwina Forde & Dr Prevatt Goldstein
Includes refreshments – bookings at info.neeaca@gmail.com

Newcastle City Library, Book Launch: Tyneside Song From Blind Willie to Bobby Nunn
2019-07-05 15:30 - 16:30 | Bewick Hall, Newcastle City Library, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 8AX
Dear friend and colleagues,
As many of you will know, Blind Willie Purvis was the earliest-known named vernacular songwriter in Newcastle, and he became an iconic figure among middle-class people by the 1820s, while Bobby Nunn was the earliest-known semi-professional songwriter for the town’s working-class people from 1829.
I will be launching my Tyneside Song from Blind Willie to Bobby Nunn in Newcastle on in the Bewick Room at Newcastle Central Library on Friday 5 July, 3.30 – 4.30pm and an invitation is below I recognise that folks who live some way away probably won’t be able to come, and others may have prior commitments, but I’d appreciate it if everyone could pass on the invitation to anyone they know on Tyneside or thereabouts who might be interested.
The response to this book has been very heartening. Over half of the print run has been spoken for, and thank you to those who have already paid for your copy or copies.
Copies are available from me at 11 Ouseburn Wharf, St. Lawrence Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, at £20, or by post at £25, to cover postage and packing. You can either send me a cheque to my home address, or arrange a bank transfer to my Co-operative Bank: sort code 08-92-80, account number 05176476.

NELHS Second Tuesday at Redhills: Huw Beynon will speak on "'The Little Dictator' and 'The Three Musketeers': The NUM Durham Area at a time of Nationalisation and Cold War"
2019-07-09 19:00 | The Miners’ Hall, Redhills, Durham, Flass Street, Durham City, DH1 4BE
In 1937 Orwell visited a coal mine in Lancashire and was exhausted by the time he had walked to the coal face. He marvelled at the endurance of the miners and wrote of how you could “easily drive a car right across the north of England: and never once remembered that hundreds of feet below… The miners are hewing out coal. Yet in a sense it is the miners who are driving your car forward. Their lamp lit world down there, is necessary to the day light world above as the root is to the flower” Writings like Down the Mine together with films based in South Wales (The Citadel, 1937) and Durham (The Stars Look Down 1939) helped place the coal miner symbolically at the centre of the distress and hardship associated with the depression.
The war changed much of this – coal was needed as never before and once-redundant miners were encouraged to work hard long hours – six shifts a week – earning money regularly for the first but with nothing to spend it on. DMA President Will Lawther, described “a mood of sullen resentment and anger on the coalfield” supporting the view that “coal was the conspicuous failure in Britain’s war time economy and the greatest threat to the compact that Bevin and the TUC had forged since 1940 (Field 2011: 119). This is revealed in the data on unofficial strike activity during the war years 46.6% of all recorded stoppages took place in the coal mines and that the industry accounted for 55.7% of all days lost though strikes. Furthermore almost 60% of the entire work force was involved directly or indirectly in strike action, almost all of which were spontaneous and local to a particular mine or colliery.
In the transition to peacetime, this militancy was the source of problems for the incoming Labour Government. At that time the UK was a single fuel economy and the national plans for economic reconstruction rested entirely upon sustaining high levels of coal production. In this, the demands of the miners’ union for nationalisation were irresistible and “The Board”, as it became known was established under the Nationalisation of Mines Act of 1946. In its operation it called upon the support and assistance of a trade union (The NUM) which had been formed just two years earlier. Members of the Communist Party held important official positions within the new union and at a time of “cold war” this was to be a source of concern, particularly to the US government. In its construction of the Marshall Plan of economic aid it envisioned an aggressive ideological response achieved through “the exporting to Europe of the anti-communist, productivist consensus which had already achieved hegemonic dominance over American labour”
The leadership of the Durham Area of the National Union of Mineworkers was strongly supportive of both these aims. Sam Watson (“the little dictator”) played a critical role both locally and nationally by controlling strike action and critical debate at home and in the part he played on the NEC of the NUM and the Labour Party where he was chair of the International Committee. He was followed by “The Three Musketeers” (Alfred “Tess” Hesler, Charlie Pick and J.C. “Kit” Robinson), a triumvirate praised by the NCB for their help in steering through the NCB’s closure programme in the sixties. The talk will explore the origins of these leaders and the nature of the role they played within Durham and the NUM. Occasional comparisons will be drawn with the situation in the South Wales Area during the same period.
Huw Beynon is Emeritus Professor of Social Sciences at Cardiff University. He is the author of Masters and Servants: Class and Patronage in the Making of a Labour Organisation: The Durham Miners and the English Political Tradition (with Terry Austrin) and he was the editor of Digging Deeper: Issues in the Miners Strike.
His new book (with Ray Hudson) The Shadow of the Mine: Coal and the end of industrial Britain will be published by Verso next year.

St Nicholas Cathedral, Newcastle: Commemoration of the 1995 Bosnian Genocide
2019-07-11 18:30 | St Nicholas Cathedral, St. Nicholas Sq, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 1PF
From Smajo Beso of Newcastle’s Bosnian Community
You are warmly invited to Newcastle’s St Nicholas Cathedral on Thursday 11 July at 6.30pm to remember the victims and survivors of the single largest atrocity mass killing on European soil since the Second World War.
This year marks the 24th anniversary of the Bosnian genocide, in the town of Srebrenica, Bosnia, which took place in July 1995, when Serbian nationalists massacred 8,372 Bosnian men and boys. The women and young girls were subjected to a different form of genocide through sexual violence and rape.
We hope by bringing people of faith and of none together and sharing our experiences of the war, we can rediscover our commonalities; we can challenge hatred and intolerance in order to build better and safer communities for us all.
The programme will feature testimonies from Bosnian genocide survivors, also talks by Allan Little (former BBC correspondent) and Emlyn Pearce (blogger and writer). Bosnian refreshments will be served from 6pm. All are welcome and admission is free for this powerful evening of remembrance, inspiration and unity – please register using the link below or by email.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/srebrenica-bosnian-genocide-memorial-event-tickets-61732808492?aff=ebdssbdestsearch
It would be great to see you there.

St Anne's Church, Newcastle: Mike Greatbach will talk about Life and Labour at St Anne's c1760-1840
2019-07-20 19:00 - 20:30 | St Anne’s Church, Breamish Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 6PY
The Church is situated between Breamish Street and City Road.
The main entrance is on Breamish Street where there is on-street parking.

Winlaton Mill: Val Scully will talk about her novel Molly Bowes and the aftermath of Peterloo
2019-08-16 18:30 - 21:00 | Cafe Shrub, Land of Oak and Iron Heritage Centre, Spa Well Road, Winlaton Mill, Blaydon on Tyne, NE21 6RU

Tyneside Irish Centre: Peter Coe's The Road to Peterloo
2019-08-18 19:00 | Tyneside Irish Centre, 43 Gallowgate, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 4SG, United Kingdom
This is the story of the Peterloo Massacre told through many of the ballads that were written at the time, please book at https://peterloo.eventbrite.co.uk
There is also a guided walk on Newcastle’s Campaign for the Vote, starting at Grey’s Monument which you can join on Sunday at 2.30pm, £5 for adults, £3 for over 60s and free for accompanied children.
For more information https://www.newcastlegateshead.com/city-guides/heritage-walks

NELHS First Tuesday: Val Scully will talk about Writing Historical Fiction in the North East
2019-09-03 19:00 | Old George Inn, Old George Yard, Newcastle, NE1 1EZ
In this illustrated talk, Val will describe researching for her two novels set in the North East: My Name is Eleanor and Molly Bowes. Having begun with eighteenth-century Gibside, her interests evolved to encompass the wider nineteenth-century social history of the area. She will discuss the processes involved in writing historical fiction with a didactic purpose.

Originally from Manchester, Val was a teacher on Tyneside. Since retiring, she has developed her interest in the eighteenth and nineteenth century history of the North East, particularly the Derwent Valley. She has published three historical novels and recently transcribed Men of Iron. She is a member of Winlaton Local History Society, on the Board of the Lit & Phil and leads the research group at Gibside.

Saint Ann's Church Gateshead: Peter Wright will talk about The History of the River Tyne Water Trades
2019-09-07 14:00 - 16:00 | St Ann’s Church, The Vicarage, 11 Gibson Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 6PY
The Vicarage 11 Gibson Street Newcastle upon Tyne

NELHS Annual General Meeting, Newcastle Lit & Phil. John Charlton: Stephenson, Spence and Eldon: a fateful triangle. Did climate change start here?
2019-09-10 19:00 | The Lit & Phil, 23 Westgate Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 1SE, United Kingdom
George Stephenson
Lord Eldon
In 2019 the issue of climate change has moved centre stage with the spread internationally of school student strikes and the emergence of Extinction Rebellion. One aspect of the discussion has been the exploration of its historical roots. John Charlton will try to make a case for the romantic period in general and the specific roles of three very well known Tynesiders.
Thomas Spence

Bethany Church, Sunderland: The Radical North
2019-09-14 10:00 - 15:30 | Bethany Church, Bede Tower, Burdon Road, Sunderland, SR2 7DZ
During the 200th Anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre, the radical tradition of the North East is celebrated at a special event organized by Sunderland Heritage Forum and Sunderland City Council Heritage Team as part of the Heritage Open Days programme.
If you would like to attend this meeting of the forum please contact Janet Robinson on 0191 561 8413 or email info.heritage@sunderland.gov.uk or Stuart Miller stuart.tindale.miller@gmail.com
More detils of the Sunderland Heritage Forum are at: https://www.sunderland.gov.uk/article/15694/Sunderland-Heritage-Forum

NELHS First Tuesday: Susan Lynn will talk about, Nails, Chains & Revolution, Crowley's 'Semi-socialistic experiment' in 18c Winlaton
2019-10-01 19:00 | Old George Inn, Old George Yard, Newcastle, NE1 1EZ
Crowley’s works at Winlaton dominated the iron trade in the 18th. Century. Joseph Cowen jnr. said ‘The semi-socialistic experiment of Crowley was interesting both politically & industrially’ and this talk looks at some aspects of Crowley’s works and their effect on the village of Winlaton.
The last chain forged in the village in 1966
Sir Ambrose & Lady Mary Crowley
The last remaining blacksmith’s forge at Winlaton

Old Low Light Heritage Centre, North Shields: Exhibition and Events, Breaking Chains, North Shields and Slavery
2019-10-12 - 2019-11-24 | The Old Low Light, Clifford’s Fort, North Shields Fish Quay, North Shields, NE30 1JE
The Breaking Chains Exhibition runs from 3 October to 22 December.
Events related to this Exhibition:

Sat. & Sun 12th & 13th Oct – Art Work inspired by the exhibition Year 10 students John Spence Community High School
Saturday 19th Oct 11am -talk by Brian Ward Professor of American History Northumbria University. Newcastle and North Shields – their role in the abolition movement
Fri. & Sat 1st & 2nd Nov 7.30pm – Resisting Slavery with Words and Music. A concert by The Freedom Choir Tickets £10
Saturday 16th Nov. 10am – 1pm – Quilting Demonstration on the theme of the ‘Underground Railway’
Saturday 23rd November 11am – talk by local historian Mike Coates: John Foster Spence and the Quakers of North Shields

Lit & Phil, Dr John Charlton: The Wind from Peterloo – Newcastle’s great reform demonstration 1819
2019-10-16 18:00 | The Lit & Phil, 23 Westgate Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 1SE, United Kingdom
John will discuss the situation on Tyne and Wear which led to this enormous demonstration in October 1819 two months after Peterloo. He will raise a number of questions including why there was no massacre, how people communicated, how many attended, the part played by women, arms or no arms and the aftermath. If you would like to know detail beyond what is possible in a lecture read: The Wind from Peterloo.
Phone 0191-232-0192 to book.

Berwick Literary Festival
2019-10-17 - 2019-10-21 | Various venues
Information available at: https://berwickliteraryfestival.com/
Max Adams – The Viking Wars: War and Peace in King Alfred’s Britain
Lindsay Allason-Jones – Roman Woman; Everyday Life in Hadrian’s Britain
Linda Bankier and Gilly Beckett – Crime & Creative Writing: Using the Archives for Inspiration
Ursula Buchan – Beyond the Thirty-Nine Steps, A Life of John Buchan (his grand-daughter’s new biography)
Jeremy Dronfield – The Boy Who followed his Father into Auschwitz
Dan Jackson – The Northumbrians: North-East England and Its People: A New History
Andrew Lownie – The Mountbattens: Their Lives and Loves
Joyce Quin and Moira Kilkenny – Angels of the North: Notable Women of the North East
Tim Tate – Hitler’s British Traitors
Brian Ward – Martin Luther King in Newcastle: The African-American Freedom Struggle and Race Relations in the North East of England

Sage Gateshead 2: The Great Geordie Songbook (Vol 1) with a Tribute to Alan Hull
2019-11-03 - 2019-11-04 | Sage 2, Gateshead
Sunday 3 November 2019, 4pm and 8pm
Following the huge successes of Mr Corvan’s Music Hall, The Great Joe Wilson (both @ Sage Gateshead), Hadaway Harry (London and Newcastle Theatre Royal), three fantastic Great Joe Wilson Nights (Tyneside Irish Centre) and Carrying David, Wisecrack Productions present this brilliant new show featuring classic North East songs and comedy.
A tremendous celebration of our brilliant local songwriters including Alan Hull, Joe Wilson, Ned Corvan, Geordie Ridley, Billy Mitchell, Judy Dinning, Tommy Armstrong, Alex Glasgow, Johnny Handle and Pete Scott.
Starring some of the region’s biggest theatre stars: Micky Cochrane, Sarah Boulter and Jamie Brown (all The Great Joe Wilson) with top musicians Rachael McShane (Mr Corvan’s Music Hall and Bellowhead) and Jordan Miller (The Great Joe Wilson, Vandebilt & The Lake Poets). Featuring brilliant musical comedy from Gavin Webster and Josh Daniels.
Tickets only £20 from www.sagegateshead.com or via www.wisecrackproductions.co.uk
https://sagegateshead.com/whats-on/the-great-geordie-songbook-volume-1

First Tuesday: Silvie Fisch, Oral History Unit and Collective, Newcastle University on Foodbank Histories
2019-11-05 19:00 | Old George Inn, Old George Yard, Newcastle, NE1 1EZ
‘Foodbank Histories’ was initiated in 2018 as a collaborative research partnership between the Newcastle West End Foodbank, Northern Cultural Projects CIC, and Newcastle University Oral History Unit & Collective. The project recorded interviews with clients, volunteers and foodbank supporters, aiming to challenge public understanding of the issues of food poverty.
Since it started ‘Foodbank Histories’ has taken on a life of its own. Silvie Fisch, Director of Northern Cultural Projects and Associate Researcher at the Oral History Unit, will talk about the plurality of outcomes from this ongoing work, as well as its challenges and aspirations.

Newcastle City Library Exhibition: Enemy Alien, Civilian Internment in the British Empire, 1914-1919
2019-11-11 - 2019-11-25 | Bewick Hall, Newcastle City Library, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 8AX
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Star and Shadow: Rewinding the Welfare State: A Social History of the North East on Film
2019-11-17 14:00 | Star and Shadow Cinema, Warwick Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 1BB
Through local news reports, Tyne Tees Television documentaries, trade union campaigns, community films and more, this film show examines how the welfare state has impacted on the social development of our region from the 1920s to today. Audiences will be invited to share their thoughts as we explore how the journey ‘from cradle to grave’ – accessing healthcare, housing, education, social security, pensions, and other human rights entitlements, has changed over the years.
Is there anything we can learn from the past to improve our future?
Many of these films haven’t been seen since they were first made and are part of the extensive collections at North East Film Archive.
To book a seat please go to: https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/id/3906/
This screening is brought to you by the North East Film Archive, as part of their North East on Film project connecting the people and communities of the region with their film heritage, in partnership with Teesside University.
Supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund and Teesside University.

Tyneside Cinema. Fragile Labour: Archive Films and Live Discussion at the Tyneside Cinema
2019-11-19 18:00 | Tyneside Cinema, 10 Pilgrim Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 6QG
From Tyneside Cinema:
As part of the Tyneside Cinema’s Zero Hour season inspired by the release of Ken Loach’s film Sorry We Missed You, we explore the history of fragile labour and insecure work in Newcastle and the North East, from cycles of casual work to the emergence of new forms of labour in the aftermath of industry.
Join us for a screening of a series of archive films from the North East Film Archive exploring various forms of insecure or disappearing forms of work in Newcastle and the North East, including Tom Pickard’s 1987 film We Make Ships, about the disappearance of the shipyards; Doing Our Bit, which details unemployment relief efforts in 1930s Middlesbrough; and films detailing the end of the Consett Steelworks.
Afterwards we will be joined by guests including Tom Pickard (filmmaker and poet), Dr Alison Atkinson-Phillips and Dr Andy King (Oral History Unit, Newcastle University), Dr Ben Lamb (Teesside University), and Ted Cuskin (former shipyard worker and social worker). The discussion will be moderated by Julie Ballands (North East Film Archive).
In the process this panel will explore the history of insecure work in Newcastle and the North East, comparing these historic forms of fragile labour to the gig economy jobs of today.
This screening is brought to you in partnership with the North East Film Archive, as part of the North East on Film project, and is supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
To book go to https://tynesidecinema.co.uk/event/zero-hour-fragile-labour-a-north-east-history/
