Star and Shadow Cinema, Newcastle. DIY Democracy: from Peterloo to the Present

Star and Shadow Cinema Warwick Street, Newcastle upon Tyne

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 […]

NELHS First Tuesday: Mike Fraser will talk about Sir Charles Trevelyan of Wallington – Northumberland’s Upper-Class Socialist MP

Old George Inn Old George Yard, Newcastle

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 […]

Wallsend Memorial Hall: Banner Theatre’s ‘Spirit of 1868’

Wallsend Memorial Hall & People's Centre 10 Frank St,, Wallsend

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

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 Tyne

        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): […]

Lit and Phil: Remembering Dr Eric Wade (1939-2018), a Commemoration

The Lit & Phil 23 Westgate Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

As 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, […]

Sunderland Community Lectures 2019

University of Sunderland's Sir Tom Cowie Lecture Theatre St Peter's Way, Sunderland

Why 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” […]

Newcastle University: Annual Chartism Day Conference 2019

Room 2.16. Armstrong Building Queen Victoria Road, Newcastle upon Tyne

Chartism 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 […]