North East Labour History
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]