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SUMMARY:NELH Tuesday Meeting. Ken Smith. The role of the Tyne built Carpathia in the rescue of survivors from the Titanic
DESCRIPTION:In April 1912 the Tyne-built ship Carpathia rescued the bitterly cold and traumatised survivors of the Titanic disaster. In this illustrated talk Newcastle author Ken Smith spotlights the ship’s epic story of compassion amid tragedy.
URL:https://nelh.net/event/nelh-tuesday-meeting-ken-smith-the-role-of-the-tyne-built-carpathia-in-the-rescue-of-survivors-from-the-titanic/
LOCATION:Tyneside Irish Centre\, 43 Gallowgate\, Newcastle upon Tyne\, NE1 4SG\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Remembrance Event: 100th Anniversary of the Montagu Pit Disaster
DESCRIPTION:From Judith Green\, \nThis year marks the centenary of the disaster which killed 38 men and boys from the local area. To commemorate this\, local organisations are holding a remembrance event from 10.30am – 1pm and a memorial service at 2pm at St Margaret’s Church\, Armstrong Road\, Scotswood NE15 6AR on Saturday 29 March.
URL:https://nelh.net/event/remembrance-event-100th-anniversary-of-the-montagu-pit-disaster/
LOCATION:St Margaret’s Church\, Scotswood
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SUMMARY:Jarrow Cemetery: Unveiling of a Headstone to Mary Lyons (Wor Bella\, Jarrow born footballer)
DESCRIPTION:Headstone for Mary Lyons (from Ed Waugh) \nAs a response to our play Wor Bella\, about women’s football in WW1\, there will be an unveiling of a headstone to Mary Lyons at Jarrow Cemetery on Sunday\, April 27 @ 11.30am. See press release below. \nFORGOTTEN WW1 FEMALE FOOTBALL STAR TO GET A HEADSTONE \nShe died a forgotten hero in 1979\, but WW1 women’s football superstar Mary Lyons is about to get the recognition she deserves when a headstone on her previously unmarked Jarrow grave is unveiled in April. \nMary was born in 1902 in Jarrow. She became the youngest-ever England footballer and goal scorer when she netted in front of 20\,000 people on her debut against Scotland at St James’ Park\, Newcastle\, in 1918\, aged 15! It is a record that still stands today\, and yet her achievements have been written out of history – until now! \nMary died in Primrose Hill hospital\, Jarrow\, in 1979\, aged 76\, and was laid to rest in an unmarked grave with three others. \nThe Friends of Jarrow Cemetery have been at the forefront of getting recognition for the town’s forgotten football hero and\, last year after discovering her final resting place\, erected a 3ft wooden cross to mark the grave. \nHowever\, Mary features prominently in Wor Bella by South Tyneside-based playwright Ed Waugh and due to the success of that play in the North East in 2022 and its hugely successful re-run in London and Newcastle Theatre Royal last year\, the Friends of Jarrow Cemetery moved to get Mary a permanent headstone. \nJarrow amateur historian Stewart Hill\, 73\, and Tricia Vickers\, 67\, are members of the Friends and have led the way in getting recognition for Mary. \nStewart explained: “Mary was the youngest of eight siblings and she worked in Jarrow shipyard during WW1. She was a tremendous footballer by all accounts. \n“Mary debuted for Jarrow Palmers when she was only 15 and quickly caught the eye. In May 1918\, she was seconded to the mighty Blyth Spartans for the Munitionettes’ Cup final against Bolckow Vaughan of Middlesbrough. \n“Mary scored a goal in the 5-0 victory at Ayresome Park\, in front of 22\,000 spectators and was crowned “Player of the Match”. \n“The following year\, 1919\, Mary captained Jarrow Palmers to win the Munitionettes’ cup at St James’ Park\, in front of 9\,000 people\, an incredible figure considering it was a time of the flu pandemic!” \nStewart added: “So by the age of 16\, Mary had won two cup finals\, scored in one\, captained her team in the other – only two finals were ever played – and became the youngest-ever England player and goalscorer! \n“What a brilliant achievement! Imagine what she would be like today\, given the modern game and opportunities.” \nTricia\, said: “Our great friend George Le-Blond of Abbey Memorials in Jarrow has generously donated the beautiful marble headstone and genealogist Sam Nicol has been a great help trawling through hundreds of newspaper articles for information.” \nShe continued: “Friends of Jarrow Cemetery work to keep the cemetery welcoming and clean\, and make it safe for people and their loved ones. This is a tremendous development. \n“Mary and the WW1 women footballers should be an inspiration to young women everywhere.” \nThe unveiling will take place at Jarrow Cemetery on Sunday\, April 27\, at 11.30am and everyone is welcome to attend. A brass band will lead the procession to the grave and ex-England Lionesses Christine Knox and Aran Embleton will perform the unveiling ceremony. \nChristine\, who won ten England caps in the 1970s and 1980s\, played for Wallsend Ladies\, Whitley Bay Ladies and North Shields Ladies. \nAran\, the first millennial Geordie Lioness\, gained four England caps and played for Blyth Spartans\, Sunderland Ladies and Doncaster Belles in her illustrious career. \nAran said: “I am proud to have been invited to recognise Mary who\, like the incredible Bella Reay of Blyth Spartans and other women of their generation\, played women’s football until it was criminally banned by the FA in 1921. \n“Players like Christine and I\, and the current Lionesses\, stand on the shoulders of these brilliant working class women from more than 100 years ago.” \nFollowing the unveiling at Jarrow Cemetery\, there will be refreshments and a celebration of Mary’s footballing achievements at the Iona Club\, Hebburn. Due to start at noon\, speakers at the event will be Wor Bella co-producer Jane Harker\, Aran and Christine\, and Wor Bella actress Catherine Dryden. The event is public and entry is free.
URL:https://nelh.net/event/jarrow-cemetery-unveiling-of-a-headstone-to-mary-lyons-wor-bella-jarrow-born-footballer/
LOCATION:Jarrow Cemetery\, Cemetery Road\, Jarrow\, NE32 5UU
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SUMMARY:NELH Tuesday Meeting\, Tyneside Irish Centre: Dr Katherine Connelly will present: 'Who stopped the War? Women and the Jolly George'
DESCRIPTION:On 10 May 1920\, East London dockers made history when they refused to load the Jolly George ship with munitions that were intended to be used against the Bolsheviks in Russia. Their action precipitated a wave of working-class support that effectively forced the British government to abandon their war plans. It has remained a beacon of inspiration to anti-war activists and internationalists ever since. \nBut what persuaded the dockers to take this stance in the first place? In this talk\, Dr Katherine Connelly explores the overlooked\, but vital\, contribution of former suffragettes in East London who drew on years of campaigning experience\, close connections with dockers and their extraordinary ability to smuggle revolutionary literature in a tireless effort to bring about the strike. It is an inspiring story that is urgently relevant today when we face questions about how we can stop genocide and the drive to war. \nDr Katherine Connelly is a historian\, writer and activist. She is a lecturer at New York University London and Boston University’s London centre. She is the author of the biography ‘Sylvia Pankhurst: Suffragette\, Socialist and Scourge of Empire’ which was published by Pluto Press in 2013. In 2019\, she edited and introduced Pankhurst’s hitherto unpublished manuscript about race\, gender and class in the United States\, now published by Pluto Press under the title ‘A Suffragette in America: Reflections on Prisoners\, Pickets and Political Change.’ She is the editor of the forthcoming ‘Cambridge Companion to Women’s Suffrage in Britain’.
URL:https://nelh.net/event/nelh-tuesday-meeting-tyneside-irish-centre-dr-katherine-connelly-will-present-who-stopped-the-war-women-and-the-jolly-george/
LOCATION:Tyneside Irish Centre\, 43 Gallowgate\, Newcastle upon Tyne\, NE1 4SG\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:NELH Tuesday Meeting. John Stirling: On the edge? A 1960s Trade Unions Arts Festival in Newcastle
DESCRIPTION:It was 60 years ago in July 1965 that the Region’s trade unions planned and put on an Exhibition and Arts Festival. This talk will review just what was on offer and what the reaction was from local people and in the media. It will also reflect on the state of the unions at the time. But why would trade unions want to put on an arts festival anyway? What were they hoping to achieve? That’s open for discussion and\, perhaps\, contributions from anyone who has memories of the event! \nJohn Stirling joined Northumbria University when it was a Polytechnic and has been involved in teaching trade unionists and writing about the movement ever since.
URL:https://nelh.net/event/nelh-tuesday-meeting-john-stirling-on-the-edge-a-1960s-trade-unions-arts-festival-in-newcastle/
LOCATION:Tyneside Irish Centre\, 43 Gallowgate\, Newcastle upon Tyne\, NE1 4SG\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250710T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250710T143000
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SUMMARY:Redhills Miners' Hall: Mining the Memories Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:From Kath Connolly \nEducation 4 Action are a group of volunteers working to celebrate our mining and union heritage. Amongst other things\, we have provided tours of the Miners’ Hall at Redhills\, organised meetings for major speakers in the week of the Big Meeting as well as developing our schools programme which has been successful in raising awareness of the need to work together in a democratic way to challenge injustice. \n \nWe are now publishing Mining The Memories\, a collection of memories about what it was like to grow up in the mining communities of County Durham. \nThe book will be launched at the newly restored Redhills in Durham City on Thursday 10 July\, 1.00 – 2.30pm and to book your place at our free launch please go to https://redhillsdurham.org/event/mining-the-memories-book-launch/ Special guests are Fiona Hill\, Bill Elliott and the Rickleton School Choir. \nIf you can’t make that date we are having an evening event on Monday 7 July at 7.00pm in the People’s Bookshop\, Prince Bishop’s Shopping Centre\, Durham. To book your free place for this you should email me at kathleenhconnolly@hotmail.co.uk . \nPlease circulate to those who you think will be interested. \nBest wishes\nKath and Education 4 Action
URL:https://nelh.net/event/redhills-miners-hall-mining-the-memories-book-launch/
LOCATION:The Miners’ Hall\, Redhills\, Durham\, Flass Street\, Durham City\, DH1 4BE
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SUMMARY:Joint NELH / Tyneside Irish Centre Talk. Chris Jones: 'The Spy who helped the Soviets win Stalingrad and Kursk'
DESCRIPTION:Details to be added
URL:https://nelh.net/event/joint-nelh-tyneside-irish-centre-talk-chris-jones-the-spy-who-helped-the-soviets-win-stalingrad-and-kursk/
LOCATION:Tyneside Irish Centre\, 43 Gallowgate\, Newcastle upon Tyne\, NE1 4SG\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:North East Labour History Society\, Annual General Meeting. Tyneside Irish Centre. Speaker: Dr. Sally Watson on Protest and participation in the redevelopment of Byker\, 1968-1982.
DESCRIPTION:Our AGM speaker will be Dr. Sally Watson on Protest and participation in the redevelopment of Byker\, 1968-1982. \nByker has long divided opinion. It has been celebrated for its achievements\, both architectural and social\, and criticised as a failed experiment. This talk revisits Byker to reconsider some of the myths that have sprung up around its redevelopment. The neighbourhood was earmarked for demolition in 1963\, with a new plan for Byker published in 1966. \nFollowing a backlash to this proposal\, Newcastle City Council appointed the architectural practice Ralph Erskine Arkitektkontor to oversee the redevelopment. They committed to retaining as many of the existing population as possible and to engaging tenants in decision-making about its future design. The talk will cover this period of protest\, which generally receives less attention than the redevelopment itself. It will then go on to examine how tenants continued to campaign for housing rights alongside exerting their influence on the design of the new neighbourhood. \nFinally\, it considers what were the implications of redeveloping ‘Byker for Byker people’\, as the rallying cry went\, both for children who had no voice in this process and in terms of who could become a Byker tenant. It concludes by considering the legacy of the struggle over Byker. \nDr Sally Watson is a researcher in the School of Architecture\, Planning and Landscape at Newcastle University. Her research focuses on the relationship between changing ideas about children and the design and regulation of the urban environment since the mid 20th century. As part of her PhD research\, she undertook the first extensive archival study based on the office archive of Ralph Erskine’s practice in Byker. She has also worked in museums and architectural archives in Newcastle\, London and Edinburgh.
URL:https://nelh.net/event/tyneside-irish-centre-north-east-labour-history-society-annual-general-meeting/
LOCATION:Tyneside Irish Centre\, 43 Gallowgate\, Newcastle upon Tyne\, NE1 4SG\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Northumbria University. Workshop: Change-making between the Local and the Global: A Conversation
DESCRIPTION:From Daniel Laqua | Professor of Modern and Contemporary History | Department of Humanities | Northumbria University \nOn 8 October\, we’re running a workshop at Northumbria University\, entitled ‘Change-making between the Local and the Global: A Conversation’. It’s part of a wider project that my colleague Henry Miller and I are involved in. The aim of this event is to use some historical examples to facilitate conversations on the links between local and global activism. I’m conscious that many NELH members are not only interested in history but also often have personal experience of various forms of activism. With this in mind\, would you be able to share the details with them? \nDetails\, including a page to book a place on the workshop\, are available here:\nChange-making between the Local and the Global: A Conversation Tickets\, Wed\, Oct 8\, 2025 at 10:00 AM | Eventbrite
URL:https://nelh.net/event/northumbria-university-workshop-change-making-between-the-local-and-the-global-a-conversation/
LOCATION:Business Hub\, Library\, room 304E\, Northumbria University\, Sandyford Road\, Newcastle-upon-Tyne\, NE1 8ST
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SUMMARY:NELH Tuesday Meeting\, Tyneside Irish Centre.  Mike Fraser will talk about The Geordie Appeaser - Viscount Runciman's Mission to Czechoslovakia in 1938
DESCRIPTION:Runciman’s mission to Czechoslovakia was a key part of Chamberlain’s policy of appeasement. Mike has not delivered this talk in about 12 years so why revisit it now? It initially occurred to him when he recognised that Putin spoke of the Russian speakers in Ukraine similarly to how Hitler spoke of the Sudeten Germans in Czechoslovakia. The decision was confirmed when he heard the former head of the British military state that we are at the 1937 stage with Russia. \nMike will discuss how Runciman’s mission became a significant precursor of the Munich agreement with Hitler.
URL:https://nelh.net/event/nelh-tuesday-meeting-tyneside-irish-centre-mike-fraser-will-talk-about-the-geordie-appeaser-viscount-runcimans-mission-to-czechoslovakia-in-1938/
LOCATION:Tyneside Irish Centre\, 43 Gallowgate\, Newcastle upon Tyne\, NE1 4SG\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:NELH Tuesday Meeting. The Closure of Sunderland's Shipyards: The Inside Story with Bob Clay and Martin Spence
DESCRIPTION:In December 1988 Sunderland’s shipyards closed despite a long and passionate campaign to save them\, and 800 years of shipbuilding on the Wear came to an end. Yet this closure has always looked bizarre. Why were these sophisticated modern yards\, representing millions of pounds of public investment\, written off? Why did the Tory Government sideline a major shipowner keen to place an order which could have kept the yards open? \nIn this meeting Martin Spence will summarise his recent research into 1980s government papers which suggest answers to these questions. Bob Clay will comment on these findings in the light of his own experiences in the 1980s. \nBob Clay was Labour MP for Sunderland North from 1983 to 1992 and led the campaign to save the yards. \nMartin Spence worked in ‘Days of Hope’ bookshop in Newcastle\, and later for the media trade union BECTU\, where he was Assistant General Secretary. \n\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/82998141605?pwd=bHc3sI2RYLXmDtJ8oIO8VYYCYYtIVD.1\n\nMeeting ID: 829 9814 1605\nPasscode: 503679
URL:https://nelh.net/event/nelh-tuesday-meeting-the-closure-of-sunderlands-shipyards-the-inside-story-with-bob-clay-and-martin-spence/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260314T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260314T120000
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SUMMARY:Chester le Street: Relaunch of the South Pelaw Miners Banner 
DESCRIPTION:The South Pelaw Miners Banner  needed a new home- where better than the local school where the children would grow up knowing of their proud mining heritage? A grant from Durham County Council’s Labour local Councillor Tracie Smith has paid for the restoration of the banner and its fine oak case . \nThis delicate silk banner was first unfurled on 23 July 1949 by Jack Lawson MP with portraits of  AJ Cook and Peter Lee. On the reverse is the Hermitage\, the grand house in Chester l e street acquired by the Durham Miners’ Welfare Committee for the rehabilitation of injured miners . \n \nThe restoration complete we are giving it a fine new launch on Saturday 14 March at 10 am in the Chester le Street CE Primary school hall.
URL:https://nelh.net/event/chester-le-street-relaunch-of-the-south-pelaw-miners-banner/
LOCATION:Chester-Le-Street C of E Junior School\, Hilda Park\, South Pelaw\,\, Chester-le-Street
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260417T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260417T153000
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SUMMARY:Redhills Miners' Hall. Never Stop Learning: A Major North East Conference on Learning and Democracy
DESCRIPTION:Whatever happened to Community Education or Life Long Learning?\nWho controls Learning now?\nHow can adult education strengthen democracy?
URL:https://nelh.net/event/redhills-minershall-a-major-north-east-conference-on-learning-and-democracy/
LOCATION:The Miners’ Hall\, Redhills\, Durham\, Flass Street\, Durham City\, DH1 4BE
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260505T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260505T210000
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SUMMARY:NELH Tuesday Meeting. Lewis Mates will talk about the 1926 General Strike in the North East
DESCRIPTION:Lewis is Associate Professor of Political Theory at Durham University and author of The Great Political Unrest: rank-and file movements and political change in the Durham coalfield
URL:https://nelh.net/event/nelh-tuesday-meeting-lewis-mates-will-talk-about-the-1926-general-strike/
LOCATION:Tyneside Irish Centre\, 43 Gallowgate\, Newcastle upon Tyne\, NE1 4SG\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260507
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260510
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SUMMARY:Newcastle University: The British General Strike of 1926: New Directions of Research
DESCRIPTION:The Newcastle University Labour & Society Research Group are organising a conference on ‘The British General Strike of 1926: New Directions of Research’ at the School of History\, Classics and Archaeology\, Armstrong Building NE1 7RU on Thursday 7 and Friday 8 May and the programme and poster are attached. \nTickets will be available on Thursday 26 March at 9.00am (no charge) and can be booked at: \n[DAY 1] https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/null/t-yzzmpzr\n[DAY 2] https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/null/t-oeeazmk \nDr Joe Redmayne writes: \nAs the recent General Strikes in Greece\, Italy\, Belgium and Portugal exemplified\, a general stoppage of labour by workers in all or most industries remains a powerful strategy of the working-class movement. This action has coincided with a global wave of blockades\, port disruptions\, strikes\, and slowdowns\, particularly at critical nodes like transport hubs and arms manufacturing sites of Israeli militarism. \nWhile we intend this to be a scholarly conference\, we also wish to make space for an active dialogue between people studying protest and industrial disputes in the past and practitioners of solidarity in the present. We are convinced that such mutual learning can generate insights that will enrich both scholarship and activism. \nThe aim is to bring together scholars\, trade unionists\, and interdisciplinary thinking to discuss the new areas of study of 1926. It brings together papers that focus on concrete histories of solidarity and the General Strike\, whether at sites of coal extraction\, transportation\, distribution\, and everywhere in-between. \nWe will also be organising a public roundtable discussion on Day 2 of the conference (8 May). \n\n\n\n___________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nDRAFT PROGRAMME\nThe British General Strike of 1926: New Directions of Research \nThursday 7 May and Friday 8 May 2026 School of History\, Classics and Archaeology Armstrong Building\, Newcastle upon Tyne\, NE1 7RU \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\n\n\n  \n  \n\n\n\nDAY 1 PROGRAMME (7 May) DAY 1 papers: Armstrong Building\, Ground Floor\, room G.09\nDAY 1 breaks/catering: Armstrong Building\, Ground Floor\, room G.07 \n\n\n\n\n\n09:00-09:30 – Morning tea/coffee – [ARMB.G.07] \n09:30-09:45 – Welcome from organiser – [ARMB.G.09] \n09:45-10:45 – Keynote 1 – [ARMB.G.09] \nChair: Dr Joe Redmayne \n• Prof David Featherstone (University of Glasgow) – Locating ‘1926’: Transnational Articulations of Labour\, Racialised Solidarities and ‘Coal Capitalism’. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n10:45-11:00 – Morning tea/coffee Break – [ARMB.G.07] \n11:00-12:30 – Panel 1: Mobility\, resistance\, and disrupting the circulation of capital – [ARMB.G.09] \nChair: Dr Sarah Campbell \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Quentin Outram (Leeds University and SSLH) – How did coal-powered economy survive a seven-month mining lockout? Britain in 1926\nDr Joe Redmayne (Newcastle University) – A maritime and transport perspective of the General Strike 1926: within and beyond the North East\nDr Fatima Chorfi (Université d’Oran 2 Mohamed Ben Ahmed\, Algeria) – The British General Strike of 1926 and the Geographies of Resistance\nDr David Lyddon (Keele University) – Decision-making and tactics\, funding\, solidarity and sectionalism in the 1926 General Strike\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n12:30-13:15 – Lunch – [ARMB.G.07] \n13:15-14:45 – Panel 2: Women’s activism and visual representations – [ARMB.G.09] \nChair: Prof Máire Cross \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPGR Janet Hughes (University of East Anglia) – Labour Women: The General Strike and Lockout\nProf Matt Perry (Newcastle University) – From Middlesborough East to the World: Ellen Wilkinson’s 1926.\nDr Shirin Hirsch (Manchester Metropolitan University) and Dr David Swanson (University of Manchester) – Photographs of the 1926 General Strike\n\n\n\n\n\n\n14:45-15:00 – Break – [ARMB.G.07] \n15:00-15:45 – Making history\, not reliving it: the national partnership to celebrate the centenary of the General Strike 1926 – [ARMB.G.09] \nChair: Prof Matt Perry \n\n\n\n\n\n\n• Henry Fowler\, General Secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions (GFTU) and GFTU Educational Trust \n\n\n\n\n\n15:45-17:00 – Evening reception – [ARMB.G.07]
URL:https://nelh.net/event/newcastle-university-the-british-general-strike-of-1926-new-directions-of-research/
LOCATION:Armstrong Building\, Newcastle University\, Newcastle upon Tyne\, NE1 7RU
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