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Lit and Phil: Remembering Dr Eric Wade (1939-2018), a Commemoration
The Lit & Phil 23 Westgate Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, United KingdomAs 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 […]
Sunderland Community Lectures 2019
University of Sunderland's Sir Tom Cowie Lecture Theatre St Peter's Way, SunderlandWhy 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 […]
NELHS Event, Tantobie Community Centre, Peter Brabban: The War came early to Sleepy Valley
Tantobie Community Centre The Playing Fields, TantobieNewcastle University: Annual Chartism Day Conference 2019
Room 2.16. Armstrong Building Queen Victoria Road, Newcastle upon TyneChartism 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 […]
Commemoration: Seven Men of Jarrow
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 […]
NELHS First Tuesday: Andy Clark will take ‘A historical look at modern apprenticeships: Sigmund Pumps Wartime Apprenticeship Scheme’
Old George Inn Old George Yard, NewcastleSigmund 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 […]
South Shields: Exhibition to Commemorate the 200th Anniversary of the St Hilda’s Pit Disaster
St Hilda's Pit Head Henry Robson Way, South ShieldsFrom 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 […]
Tyneside Irish Centre: Book Launch: New Edition of SHAFTED: The Media, the Miners’ Strike and the Aftermath
Tyneside Irish Centre 43 Gallowgate, Newcastle upon Tyne, United KingdomThe 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 […]