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  • April 2026

  • Fri 17

    Redhills Miners’ Hall. Never Stop Learning: A Major North East Conference on Learning and Democracy

    April 17 @ 10:00 - 15:30
    The Miners' Hall, Redhills, Durham Flass Street, Durham City

    Whatever happened to Community Education or Life Long Learning? Who controls Learning now? How can adult education strengthen democracy?

  • May 2026

  • Tue 5

    NELH Tuesday Meeting. Lewis Mates will talk about the 1926 General Strike in the North East

    May 5 @ 19:00 - 21:00
    Tyneside Irish Centre 43 Gallowgate, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

    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

  • Thu 7

    Newcastle University: The British General Strike of 1926: New Directions of Research

    May 7 - May 8
    Armstrong Building Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne

    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 […]

  • Sat 16

    North Shields: Stuart Barlow will give a talk about Robert Lowery – North Shields Forgotten Chartist Leader

    May 16 @ 11:00 - 12:30
    The Old Low Light Clifford’s Fort, North Shields Fish Quay, North Shields

    Robert Lowery was a North Shields working man whose early life was a mixture of tragedy, hard work and crippling illness. He went on to become a leading Chartist and […]

  • June 2026

  • Fri 26

    Tyneside Irish Centre. ‘General Strike’: film screening by Newcastle TUC

    June 26 @ 19:30 - 21:00
    Tyneside Irish Centre 43 Gallowgate, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

    From Martin Levy Dear  Comrades and Friends On Friday 26 June, Newcastle TUC will be screening the documentary film, 'The General Strike – A Revolution Betrayed?' recently unearthed in the […]

  • July 2026

  • Thu 9

    Sacriston Working Men’s Club. Sacriston, 1926 – A lecture by Professor John Tomaney

    July 9 @ 19:00 - 21:00
    Sacriston Working Men's Club 1 Edward Street, Sacriston

    Overview This lecture explores Sacriston’s unique role during this turbulent period. One hundred years ago, Sacriston was in the grip of a historic industrial conflict. The short-lived General Strike, in […]

  • October 2026

  • Tue 6

    North East Labour History Society. Annual General Meeting. Don Watson will be speaking about amateur theatre in the unemployed clubs of the 1930s

    October 6 @ 19:30 - 21:00
    Tyneside Irish Centre 43 Gallowgate, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

    Details to follow

  • January 2027

  • Tue 12

    NELH Tuesday Meeting. Keith Jowett will talk about: Sid Chaplin – a Writer’s World

    12 January 2027 @ 19:00 - 20:30
    Zoom

    This will be a Zoom meeting. Details to follow

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