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SUMMARY:Sunderland Community Lectures 2019
DESCRIPTION:Why waste a day in the house?  Woodwork paints itself if you leave it long enough….Your son will do the ironing….Gardens benefit from neglect and abandonment….Someone else will do the cooking…. \nWhat else can you do…? \nCome along to the Sunderland Community Lectures which are running throughout Summer 2019 and which are themed around “Crossings” because of the opening of the new cable-stayed Northern Spire Bridge \nThe Sunderland Community Lectures are free. They are on Wednesday afternoon in the University of Sunderland’s Sir Tom Cowie Lecture Theatre\, Prospect Building\, Sir Tom Cowie Campus at St Peter’s\, St Peter’s Way\, Sunderland SR1 3SD. \nThe lectures begin on 22 May commencing at 2.30pm and are approximately one hour in duration. They run through to 21 August. Do arrive in the Prospect Building between 2.00pm – 2.30pm to register before the lecture begins. \nThere is (pay) parking in the grounds of the campus. The St. Peter’s Metro Station is within a few minutes walking distance. Alternatively a regular bus service runs from the Park Lane Bus Station to St Peter’s Campus itself. \nCome along\, better still – come along and bring a friend! \nStuart Miller \nPROGRAMME \n22nd May The Causes of the Tay Bridge Disaster (Eric Fletcher) (When the Tay Bridge was opened on the 1st June 1878 it was described as a marvel of Victorian engineering. Seven months later during a violent storm the central part of the bridge collapsed plunging a train and 75 people\, 85ft down into the Tay. The lecture will look at how the design\, construction\, operation and maintenance of the bridge contributed to the disaster and the crucial role played by the personality of designer Thomas Bouch) \n5th June From Tyne to Tweed in old postcards (George Nairn) (Having made other journeys in County Durham by old postcards in previous lectures George will now undertake a journey from the Tyne to the Tweed along “Northumberland’s lordly strand”) \n 19th June The Lake Baikal Ferry (Alan Owen) (In 1895 a contract between the Russian Imperial Government and Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth & Co Ltd was signed for a unique icebreaking ferry to operate on Lake Baikal as part of the new Trans-Siberian Railway. By June 1896 it had been delivered in flat-pack form. It was launched in 1899 and operated until 1918. This lecture will describe how the crossing of the largest freshwater lake in the world was achieved through the skills of North East Engineers) \n 17th July The Biddick Ferryman (David Inch) (In the 18th Century a ferry-boat service operated between North and South Biddick on the River Wear. For a period the ferryman was a man named James Drummond. Was he a simple ferryman or was he someone of quite amazing status ? This talk explores a fascinating local legend) \n 7th August Crossing the Tyne (Pat Lowery) (The Romans built the first bridge over the Tyne and a fort to protect the crossing. Since then several bridges and tunnels have been built to transport people and goods from one side to the other. This lecture will look at some of the river crossings both above and below the river\, their construction and use\, and stories of the people who built and used them) \n 21st August The Wearmouth Bridge (Stuart Miller) (The first Wearmouth Bridge at Sunderland was the second iron bridge in the world\, and much more ambitious than that at Ironbridge. It was soon added to the “bucket list” of contemporary travellers. This talk will explore the background to the building of the bridge\, describe its novel construction and outline the intriguing controversy about who was responsible for the design) \n 
URL:https://nelh.net/event/sunderland-community-lectures-2019/
LOCATION:University of Sunderland’s Sir Tom Cowie Lecture Theatre\, St Peter's Way\, Sunderland\, SR1 3SD
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SUMMARY:Newcastle City Library\, Book Launch: Tyneside Song From Blind Willie to Bobby Nunn
DESCRIPTION:Dear friend and colleagues\, \nAs 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 by the 1820s\, while Bobby Nunn was the earliest-known semi-professional songwriter for the town’s working-class people from 1829. \nI will be launching my Tyneside Song from Blind Willie to Bobby Nunn in Newcastle on in the Bewick Room at Newcastle Central Library on Friday 5 July\, 3.30 – 4.30pm and an invitation is below I recognise that folks who live some way away probably won’t be able to come\, and others may have prior commitments\, but I’d appreciate it if everyone could pass on the invitation to anyone they know on Tyneside or thereabouts who might be interested. \nThe response to this book has been very heartening. Over half of the print run has been spoken for\, and thank you to those who have already paid for your copy or copies. \nCopies are available from me at 11 Ouseburn Wharf\, St. Lawrence Road\, Newcastle upon Tyne\, at £20\, or by post at £25\, to cover postage and packing. You can either send me a cheque to my home address\, or arrange a bank transfer to my Co-operative Bank: sort code 08-92-80\, account number 05176476.
URL:https://nelh.net/event/newcastle-central-library-book-launch-tyneside-song-from-blind-willie-to-bobby-nunn/
LOCATION:Bewick Hall\, Newcastle City Library\, Newcastle upon Tyne\, NE1 8AX
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SUMMARY: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"
DESCRIPTION: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 and wrote of how you could “easily drive a car right across the north of England: and never once remembered that hundreds of feet below… The miners are hewing out coal. Yet in a sense it is the miners who are driving your car forward. Their lamp lit world down there\, is necessary to the day light world above as the root is to the flower” Writings like Down the Mine together with films based in South Wales (The Citadel\, 1937) and Durham (The Stars Look Down 1939) helped place the coal miner symbolically at the centre of the distress and hardship associated with the depression. \nThe war changed much of this – coal was needed as never before and once-redundant miners were encouraged to work hard long hours – six shifts a week – earning money regularly for the first but with nothing to spend it on. DMA President Will Lawther\, described “a mood of sullen resentment and anger on the coalfield” supporting the view that “coal was the conspicuous failure in Britain’s war time economy and the greatest threat to the compact that Bevin and the TUC had forged since 1940 (Field 2011: 119). This is revealed in the data on unofficial strike activity during the war years 46.6% of all recorded stoppages took place in the coal mines and that the industry accounted for 55.7% of all days lost though strikes. Furthermore almost 60% of the entire work force was involved directly or indirectly in strike action\, almost all of which were spontaneous and local to a particular mine or colliery. \nIn the transition to peacetime\, this militancy was the source of problems for the incoming Labour Government. At that time the UK was a single fuel economy and the national plans for economic reconstruction rested entirely upon sustaining high levels of coal production. In this\, the demands of the miners’ union for nationalisation were irresistible and “The Board”\, as it became known was established under the Nationalisation of Mines Act of 1946. In its operation it called upon the support and assistance of a trade union (The NUM) which had been formed just two years earlier. Members of the Communist Party held important official positions within the new union and at a time of “cold war” this was to be a source of concern\, particularly to the US government. In its construction of the Marshall Plan of economic aid it envisioned an aggressive ideological response achieved through “the exporting to Europe of the anti-communist\, productivist consensus which had already achieved hegemonic dominance over American labour” \nThe leadership of the Durham Area of the National Union of Mineworkers was strongly supportive of both these aims. Sam Watson (“the little dictator”) played a critical role both locally and nationally by controlling strike action and critical debate at home and in the part he played on the NEC of the NUM and the Labour Party where he was chair of the International Committee. He was followed by “The Three Musketeers” (Alfred “Tess” Hesler\, Charlie Pick and J.C. “Kit” Robinson)\, a triumvirate praised by the NCB for their help in steering through the NCB’s closure programme in the sixties. The talk will explore the origins of these leaders and the nature of the role they played within Durham and the NUM. Occasional comparisons will be drawn with the situation in the South Wales Area during the same period. \nHuw Beynon is Emeritus Professor of Social Sciences at Cardiff University. He is the author of Masters and Servants: Class and Patronage in the Making of a Labour Organisation: The Durham Miners and the English Political Tradition (with Terry Austrin) and he was the editor of Digging Deeper: Issues in the Miners Strike. \nHis new book (with Ray Hudson) The Shadow of the Mine: Coal and the end of industrial Britain will be published by Verso next year.
URL:https://nelh.net/event/second-tuesday-huw-beynon-will-speak-on-the-history-of-the-durham-miners/
LOCATION:The Miners’ Hall\, Redhills\, Durham\, Flass Street\, Durham City\, DH1 4BE
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SUMMARY:St Nicholas Cathedral\, Newcastle: Commemoration of the 1995 Bosnian Genocide
DESCRIPTION:From Smajo Beso of Newcastle’s Bosnian Community \nYou are warmly invited to Newcastle’s St Nicholas Cathedral on Thursday 11 July at 6.30pm to remember the victims and survivors of the single largest atrocity mass killing on European soil since the Second World War. \nThis year marks the 24th anniversary of the Bosnian genocide\, in the town of Srebrenica\, Bosnia\, which took place in July 1995\, when Serbian nationalists massacred 8\,372 Bosnian men and boys. The women and young girls were subjected to a different form of genocide through sexual violence and rape. \nWe hope by bringing people of faith and of none together and sharing our experiences of the war\, we can rediscover our commonalities; we can challenge hatred and intolerance in order to build better and safer communities for us all. \nThe programme will feature testimonies from Bosnian genocide survivors\, also talks by Allan Little (former BBC correspondent) and Emlyn Pearce (blogger and writer). Bosnian refreshments will be served from 6pm.  All are welcome and admission is free for this powerful evening of remembrance\, inspiration and unity – please register using the link below or by email. \nhttps://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/srebrenica-bosnian-genocide-memorial-event-tickets-61732808492?aff=ebdssbdestsearch \nIt would be great to see you there.
URL:https://nelh.net/event/st-nicholas-cathedral-newcastle-commemoration-of-the-1995-bosnian-genocide/
LOCATION:St Nicholas Cathedral\, St. Nicholas Sq\, Newcastle upon Tyne\, NE1 1PF
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SUMMARY:St Anne's Church\, Newcastle: Mike Greatbach will talk about Life and Labour at St Anne's c1760-1840
DESCRIPTION:The Church is situated between Breamish Street and City Road. \nThe main entrance is on Breamish Street where there is on-street parking. \n 
URL:https://nelh.net/event/st-annes-church-newcastle-mike-greatbach-will-talk-about-life-and-labour-at-st-annes-c1760-1840/
LOCATION:St Anne’s Church\, Breamish Street\, Newcastle upon Tyne\, NE1 6PY
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