North East Labour History
Guest Speakers: Penny Remfry (Scarlet Women) Sharan Dhaliwal (Burnt Roti) Rosanne Rabinowitz (Bad Attitude) Artists Kate Taylor (Trouble & Strife) & Fanny Tribble (Spare Rib), further speakers to be confirmed. […]
Tuesday 6th June 2023, North East Land, Sea and Air Museum, from 12noon Those of you who attended our introductory event in February will be aware of how productive it […]
Tonight’s talk has been postponed due to illness. John is sorry he can't make the meeting but we will re-arrange it for another time and, in the meantime, I'm sure […]
From Peter Sagar Celebrating Our Traditions is a series of multicultural events, held at the Tyneside Irish Centre, featuring our Northumbrian music and song as well as some of the […]
From Joan Allen The annual Chartism Day conference is being held at Sheffield Hallam University on Saturday 17th June. Entry is free and includes a light lunch. However, pre booking is […]
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 […]