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  • June 2019

  • Sat 22

    Newcastle City Library: The North East of England African Association presents The Windrush Story with Music & Poetry

    22 June 2019 @ 13:00 - 15:00
    Bewick Hall Newcastle City Library, Newcastle upon Tyne

    Opened by Chi Onwurah MP Performance by Khadijah Ibrahim (Author & Poet)  Presentation by Edwina Forde & Dr Prevatt Goldstein  Includes refreshments – bookings at info.neeaca@gmail.com

  • July 2019

  • Fri 5

    Newcastle City Library, Book Launch: Tyneside Song From Blind Willie to Bobby Nunn

    5 July 2019 @ 15:30 - 16:30
    Bewick Hall Newcastle City Library, Newcastle upon Tyne

    Dear friend and colleagues, As many of you will know, Blind Willie Purvis was the earliest-known named vernacular songwriter in Newcastle, and he became an iconic figure among middle-class people […]

  • Tue 9

    NELHS Second Tuesday at Redhills: Huw Beynon will speak on “‘The Little Dictator’ and ‘The Three Musketeers’: The NUM Durham Area at a time of Nationalisation and Cold War”

    9 July 2019 @ 19:00
    The Miners' Hall, Redhills, Durham Flass Street, Durham City

    In 1937 Orwell visited a coal mine in Lancashire and was exhausted by the time he had walked to the coal face. He marvelled at the endurance of the miners […]

  • Thu 11

    St Nicholas Cathedral, Newcastle: Commemoration of the 1995 Bosnian Genocide

    11 July 2019 @ 18:30
    St Nicholas Cathedral St. Nicholas Sq, Newcastle upon Tyne

    From Smajo Beso of Newcastle’s Bosnian Community You are warmly invited to Newcastle’s St Nicholas Cathedral on Thursday 11 July at 6.30pm to remember the victims and survivors of the […]

  • Sat 20

    St Anne’s Church, Newcastle: Mike Greatbach will talk about Life and Labour at St Anne’s c1760-1840

    20 July 2019 @ 19:00 - 20:30
    St Anne's Church Breamish Street, Newcastle upon Tyne

    The Church is situated between Breamish Street and City Road. The main entrance is on Breamish Street where there is on-street parking.  

  • August 2019

  • Fri 16

    Winlaton Mill: Val Scully will talk about her novel Molly Bowes and the aftermath of Peterloo

    16 August 2019 @ 18:30 - 21:00
    Cafe Shrub, Land of Oak and Iron Heritage Centre Spa Well Road, Winlaton Mill, Blaydon on Tyne
    £12.50
  • Sun 18

    Tyneside Irish Centre: Peter Coe’s The Road to Peterloo

    18 August 2019 @ 19:00
    Tyneside Irish Centre 43 Gallowgate, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

    This is the story of the Peterloo Massacre told through many of the ballads that were written at the time, please book at https://peterloo.eventbrite.co.uk There is also a guided walk […]

  • September 2019

  • Tue 3

    NELHS First Tuesday: Val Scully will talk about Writing Historical Fiction in the North East

    3 September 2019 @ 19:00
    Old George Inn Old George Yard, Newcastle

    In this illustrated talk, Val will describe researching for her two novels set in the North East:  My Name is Eleanor and Molly Bowes.  Having begun with eighteenth-century Gibside, her […]

  • Sat 7

    Saint Ann’s Church Gateshead: Peter Wright will talk about The History of the River Tyne Water Trades

    7 September 2019 @ 14:00 - 16:00
    St Ann's Church The Vicarage, 11 Gibson Street, Newcastle upon Tyne

    The Vicarage 11 Gibson Street Newcastle upon Tyne

  • Tue 10

    NELHS Annual General Meeting, Newcastle Lit & Phil. John Charlton: Stephenson, Spence and Eldon: a fateful triangle. Did climate change start here?

    10 September 2019 @ 19:00
    The Lit & Phil 23 Westgate Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

    George Stephenson Lord Eldon In 2019 the issue of climate change has moved centre stage with the spread internationally of school student strikes and the emergence of Extinction Rebellion. One […]

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