North East Labour History

This talk will reflect on the politicisation of unemployment across UK towns and cities in the early 1980s. With a particular focus on trade union and community organising, the presentation will reflect on the role of Unemployed Workers’ Centres in articulating opposition to deindustrialisation, redundancies, and long-term unemployment. Focusing upon centres as ‘solidarity infrastructures’ allows […]

From Liam Liburd: My name is Liam Liburd and I'm the Assistant Professor of Black British History at Durham University. I'm also the Department of History's Public History Officer and am responsible for arranging history-related public events across the academic year. I'm writing to bring our Black History Month event to your attention... History Now! BHM […]

From Martin Levy The annual 'Volunteers for Liberty' event, to commemorate the volunteers from the North East who gave their lives fighting in the International Brigade in Spain, will be held at 2 pm on Sunday 29 October at the memorial plaque in the grounds of Newcastle Civic Centre. Speakers will include author Alex Clifford and representatives from the Communist […]

Our apologies - a fault in the Black History Conversations 365 website has made it impossible to register for this meeting. However, the link below gives an explanation of why Laura has apologised for her family's slave-owning past and what she is doing about it now. https://www.beaconcollaborative.org.uk/laura-trevelyan-i-hope-my-apology-and-reparations-for-my-familys-slave-owning-past-will-set-an-example-to-others/ Laura Trevelyan: "I hope my apology and reparations […]

A Distant World is John Charlton’s account of growing up in the 1950s. He traces his family’s origins, birth, childhood and education in a detailed account which references aspects of family, work, social and political life on Tyneside over his first two decades. John worked as a school teacher then higher education lecturer at Leeds […]

This event has been postponed. New details will be posted as soon as they are available. Following last year's successful event St Michael's Branch Labour Party are hosting their second Social History Conference on Saturday 18 November at the Hope Street Xchange in Sunderland from 9.30am to 4.45pm. Boasting a panel of 4 expert speakers […]

Gianfranco Rosolia is the author of CLEAN AIR which tells the story of the long fight against the environmental pollution caused by the Monkton Cokeworks and who spoke at the NELH Tuesday meeting in April, will be in the North East in November. The plaque unveiling will be at Hebburn Library at 11am on Tuesday 21 […]

In 1958, Shelagh Delaney, a working-class teenager from Salford, became famous when her debut play, 'A Taste of Honey', was staged in London. The play tackled taboo subjects like homosexuality and mixed race relationships. Against the contemptuous predictions of London's critics, it became a box office sellout. In this talk, Delaney's biographer, historian Selina Todd, […]

Gianfranco Rosolia is the author of CLEAN AIR which tells the story of the long fight against the environmental pollution caused by the Monkton Cokeworks and who spoke at the NELH Tuesday meeting in April, will be in the North East in November. You will need to register: https://www.tedxnewcastle.com Click here for details of Gianfranco's […]

Des Geraghty is a Dublin-born writer, musician, trade unionist, politician and broadcaster. His most recent book - 'We Dare to Dream... of an Island of Equals' is the story of his family and their journey on the rocky road to equality and diversity from the Irish Civil War to date. The talk has been organised […]