North East Labour History
The North East Labour History Society presents a ‘First Tuesday’ event led by two formers students of Ruskin College, the home of trade union education. Rob Turnbull and Nigel Todd will reflect on their time at Ruskin and how it shaped their lives and this will be followed by a discussion that will also look […]
Venue: University of Northumbria, Ellison Building 9:30am to 4:30pm, Saturday 16 September 2017 Coffee and registration, Room A001, A Block, Ellison Building, City Campus, University of Northumbria. There is level access from the Northumberland Road entrance to the Ellison building. A collaboration between the Histories of Activism Group at Northumbria University, and the North East […]
The presentation will offer an analysis on the nature and significance of the British political, social and economic turmoil in the post-war period 1919-1921 and which could be labelled the ‘Post-War Labour Unrest’ due to the rapid rise in industrial strife. The field of enquiry is to use the Durham Coalfield and the Durham Miners’ […]
Assemble 11.00am at the bandstand, Exhibition Park. March leaves at 11.30am for rally 12 noon at Grey's Monument. Rally speakers include Mick Cash (RMT general secretary), Susan Grey (vice-chair, Venezuela Solidarity Campaign) and Dan Carden MP (acting Shadow Secretary of State for International Development). Bring banners! Volunteers needed for stewarding.
A showing of Mike Leigh’s latest celebrated film Peterloo with speakers / workshops on Peterloo and its aftermath, Protest in the 1960s and the current fight for women’s pension rights Tickets via https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/642615 covering the Star and Shadow’s catering: a hot lunch, tea, coffee and cake all day £10, waged and £5, pay as you […]
Sir Charles Trevelyan was a controversial Northumberland politician who was involved in some of the most significant political developments of the first half of the twentieth century. He served in the Liberal Government from 1909 until he resigned in protest against the decision to go to war. During the war he formed a pressure group […]
A terrific performance, and a real, rollicking, introduction to the 150-year history of the TUC. Get your tickets at https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/wallsend/wallsend-memorial-hall/banner-theatre-spirit-of-1868/2019-05-10/19:00. Event Flyer
Free admission, please register: 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): […]