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  • September 2025

  • Thu 25

    Joint NELH / Tyneside Irish Centre Talk. Chris Jones: ‘The Spy who helped the Soviets win Stalingrad and Kursk’

    25 September 2025 @ 19:00 - 20:30
    Tyneside Irish Centre 43 Gallowgate, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

    Details to be added

  • October 2025

  • Tue 7

    North East Labour History Society, Annual General Meeting. Tyneside Irish Centre. Speaker: Dr. Sally Watson on Protest and participation in the redevelopment of Byker, 1968-1982.

    7 October 2025 @ 19:00 - 21:30
    Tyneside Irish Centre 43 Gallowgate, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

    Our AGM speaker will be Dr. Sally Watson on Protest and participation in the redevelopment of Byker, 1968-1982. Byker has long divided opinion. It has been celebrated for its achievements, […]

  • Wed 8

    Northumbria University. Workshop: Change-making between the Local and the Global: A Conversation

    8 October 2025 @ 10:00 - 16:15
    Business Hub, Library, room 304E Northumbria University, Sandyford Road, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

    From Daniel Laqua | Professor of Modern and Contemporary History | Department of Humanities | Northumbria University On 8 October, we're running a workshop at Northumbria University, entitled 'Change-making between the […]

  • November 2025

  • Tue 18

    NELH Tuesday Meeting, Tyneside Irish Centre. Mike Fraser will talk about The Geordie Appeaser – Viscount Runciman’s Mission to Czechoslovakia in 1938

    18 November 2025 @ 19:00 - 21:00
    Tyneside Irish Centre 43 Gallowgate, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

    Runciman’s mission to Czechoslovakia was a key part of Chamberlain’s policy of appeasement. Mike has not delivered this talk in about 12 years so why revisit it now? It initially […]

  • February 2026

  • Tue 24

    NELH Tuesday Meeting. The Closure of Sunderland’s Shipyards: The Inside Story with Bob Clay and Martin Spence

    February 24 @ 19:00 - 21:00
    Zoom

    In December 1988 Sunderland’s shipyards closed despite a long and passionate campaign to save them, and 800 years of shipbuilding on the Wear came to an end. Yet this closure […]

  • March 2026

  • Sat 14

    Chester le Street: Relaunch of the South Pelaw Miners Banner 

    March 14 @ 10:00 - 12:00
    Chester-Le-Street C of E Junior School Hilda Park, South Pelaw,, Chester-le-Street

    The South Pelaw Miners Banner  needed a new home- where better than the local school where the children would grow up knowing of their proud mining heritage? A grant from […]

  • April 2026

  • Fri 17

    Redhills Miners’ Hall. Never Stop Learning: A Major North East Conference on Learning and Democracy

    April 17 @ 10:00 - 15:30
    The Miners' Hall, Redhills, Durham Flass Street, Durham City

    Whatever happened to Community Education or Life Long Learning? Who controls Learning now? How can adult education strengthen democracy?

  • May 2026

  • Tue 5

    NELH Tuesday Meeting. Lewis Mates will talk about the 1926 General Strike in the North East

    May 5 @ 19:00 - 21:00
    Tyneside Irish Centre 43 Gallowgate, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

    Lewis is Associate Professor of Political Theory at Durham University and author of The Great Political Unrest: rank-and file movements and political change in the Durham coalfield

  • Thu 7

    Newcastle University: The British General Strike of 1926: New Directions of Research

    May 7 - May 8
    Armstrong Building Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne

    The Newcastle University Labour & Society Research Group are organising a conference on 'The British General Strike of 1926: New Directions of Research' at the School of History, Classics and […]

  • Sat 16

    North Shields: Stuart Barlow will give a talk about Robert Lowery – North Shields Forgotten Chartist Leader

    May 16 @ 11:00 - 12:30
    The Old Low Light Clifford’s Fort, North Shields Fish Quay, North Shields

    Robert Lowery was a North Shields working man whose early life was a mixture of tragedy, hard work and crippling illness. He went on to become a leading Chartist and […]

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