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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/
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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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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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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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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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