North East Labour History

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 […]

Received from Tyne Bridge Publishing I'd like to offer your members free tickets to Andy Beckett's talk on his new book The Searchers: Five Rebels, Their Dream of a Different […]

The Society's Christmas Social will take place this year at the Irish Centre in Newcastle on Tuesday 17 December at 7.00pm, more information in due course.

The banners of the Durham and Northumberland coal miners are an extremely important part of the heritage of the former pit communities of the North-East. Emblazoned across their fabric are […]

From Peter Sagar This is to invite you a Holocaust Memorial Day event on Thursday 23rd January at the Bewick Hall in Newcastle City Library at 5.30pm and also, to […]

This talk by Margaret Bozic explores what life was really like in the North East after the Second World War.  What did we eat, what was the state of the housing, […]

In April 1912 the Tyne-built ship Carpathia rescued the bitterly cold and traumatised survivors of the Titanic disaster. In this illustrated talk Newcastle author Ken Smith spotlights the ship's epic […]

From Judith Green, This year marks the centenary of the disaster which killed 38 men and boys from the local area. To commemorate this, local organisations are holding a remembrance […]

Headstone for Mary Lyons (from Ed Waugh) As a response to our play Wor Bella, about women's football in WW1, there will be an unveiling of a headstone to Mary […]