Tanfield: The Tommy Armstrong Society presents BANNERS – an exhibition of over 20 Mining Bannners + music from Allen Crawford and Bethany Elen
For more info please contact info@bethanyelen.co.uk
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St Margaret's Church Tanfield, Stanley
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Newcastle University. Conference: The Global Challenge of Peace: 1919 as a Contested Threshold to a New World Order
Room 2.16. Armstrong Building Queen Victoria Road, Newcastle upon TyneFree admission, please register: matt.perry@newcastle.ac.uk Organised by Labour and Society Research Group and Conflict and Revolution Research Strand of Newcastle University Friday 17 May 2019 12.30 – 13.00 Registration and Coffee 13.00 – 14.30 Panel 1: The Dynamics of Contention in 1919, Chair: TBC Jacopo Perazzoli (University of Milan): […]
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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 a programme of speakers who knew him well. However, if you’d like to add your own informal stories about Eric, then please email Mick Goulding, […]
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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 cooking…. What else can you do…? Come along to the Sunderland Community Lectures which are running throughout Summer 2019 and which are themed around “Crossings” […]
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NELHS Event, Tantobie Community Centre, Peter Brabban: The War came early to Sleepy Valley
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Newcastle 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 of Radicalism’. 10.15–11.00 Joan Allen (Newcastle). ‘Chartist trials, 1839: Revisited’. Break 11.30–12.15 Mike Greatbatch. (Independent). ‘William Parker: A Chartist Life’. 12.15-13.00 Joe Stanley (Sheffield […]
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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 colonies for life, and transported in irons to Botany Bay, leaving their families behind to fend for themselves. On Saturday 1 June from 1.00pm, join […]
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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 wartime apprentices, I will examine the impact of the apprenticeship scheme on those involved. The Sigmund scheme was unique in that it was based on […]
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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 is an exhibition there of paintings by local artists to commemorate the pit disaster when 51 men and boys were killed. Both building and exhibition […]