North East Labour History

I am doing a talk at the Old Low Light Heritage Centre, North Shields NE30 1JE on Saturday 11 February at 11.00am which is about, what I have called, the hidden history of Robert Lowery, the North Shields man who was one of the leaders of the Chartist movement.  The talk will cover his birth in North […]

Routes of Social Change https://wea-historywalks.org.uk is an ongoing pilot project funded by Lipman Miliband Trust and WEA's own Volunteer Innovation Fund.  During lockdown, several of us at WEA were struck by the growth in interest in self-guided soundwalks.  Obviously, this kind of activity was going to grow when you were limited to outdoor activity in your own […]