North East Labour History

Topic: Middlesbrough's Steel Magnates, Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88010819818?pwd=WnBEeitRVXgrQnN3MTNyTkp0d3lMZz09 Meeting ID: 880 1081 9818 Passcode: 474174 The history of modern Teesside has been inextricably linked to the industrialists that led the businesses, shaped the communities and established new charitable and philanthropic initiatives at the heart of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century manufacturing district. In […]

Tony Fox, a member of the International Brigades Memorial Trust who lives in Billingham will give a talk on ‘A complete history of the memorial plaque to the Teesside International Brigades’ on Tuesday 8 June at 7.00pm Topic: Teesside International Brigades Plaque Time: Jun 8, 2021 07:00 PM London Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87335888047?pwd=N0h2V0VCTzJJTWZnUGhwWEpSbHlRdz09 Meeting ID: […]

Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82172314164?pwd=YVd1SVlSdnFXaUdFY3Q1bFBsL2d2dz09 Meeting ID: 821 7231 4164 Passcode: 025456 Margaret Llewelyn Davies was General Secretary of the Women’s Co-operative Guild between 1889 and 1921, a tumultuous period of social and political change. Her leadership was crucial to the Guild’s development into a unique national organisation of working class wives and mothers; as the Russian […]

William Parker was a leading advocate of the 'The People's Charter' in the 1830s and later championed the rights of pensioners and the poor in general. The commemorative plaque will be unveiled by the Lord Mayor of Newcastle at the Cumberland Arms public house, James Place Street (off Byker Bank), Ouseburn, Newcastle upon Tyne. Directions: […]

This talk will consider why and how women went on strike during the First World War. It will also  explore the longer-term legacies of wartime industrial action, considering in particular some case-studies of French and British working-class women whose initiation into trade unionism during the war led to political careers in the 1920s and 1930s. […]

From Independent Labour Publications With tensions rising between the Westminster government and the devolved governments in Cardiff and Edinburgh it’s an opportune time to consider The future of the union and the case for UK Federalism and I’m pleased to say this will be theme of the ILP meeting this Friday 3 September at 7.00pm. […]

Book at http://berwickea.org/event/history-through-a-northumbrian-lens-part-two/ This is a series of three one-hour lectures by Mike Fraser, organised in association with Berwick Literary Festival. Patrons of the Festival are entitled to a 50% discount on tickets for the full course (see Tickets). This listing is for the full course; you can book individual lectures here. The lectures are on […]

Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88917964686?pwd=QkJPMDl3Z3IyUnJneTlaQTl5bkZIZz09 Meeting ID: 889 1796 4686 Passcode: 611389 The rise and fall of Britain’s most important industry. No one personified the age of industry more than the miners. The Shadow of the Mine tells the story of King Coal in its heyday—and what happened to mining communities after the last pits closed. Coal was […]

Thomas Spence has been recognised as the most important socialist thinker of the 1790s. He was also a strong satirist of aristocracy and of land-holders generally. This talk will consider Spence as a satirist and utopian writer, and will conclude by considering parallels between the thought and writing of Spence and of William Morris a […]

A film by Janet Behan about her grandmother, Kathleen Behan. Not just a portrait of this extraordinary woman, but a vivid, eye-witness account of the birth of the Irish Republic. It’s full of great stories and songs, some of them written by Kathleen’s brother, Peadar, writer of the lyrics to The Soldier’s Song. Kathleen also […]