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SUMMARY:Special Event\, Bosnia and the North East. Newcastle City Library
DESCRIPTION:On Saturday 18th March there will be a special event in Newcastle to celebrate the links between North East England and Bosnia. All are welcome\, especially those involved in education and in trade unions. The event will hear from a number of speakers related to educational and trade union work around the links between the North East and Bosnia. \nThen we will plan to do groundbreaking work over the next two years in the areas of education and trade union activism. \nWe will plan to increase awareness of what happened in Bosnia in the 1990’s\, how we can learn from it here and how we can work to get more schools to teach about these issues. We will plan to get the Bosnia Education Trust into more schools and also strengthen the Newcastle schools of sanctuary scheme. \nWe will also plan to let more people in the North East know about the strong trade union links between Bosnia and the North East in the past\, how miners in Bosnia helped miners in this country during the 1984/5 strike and how trade unionists in the North East helped Bosnians during the war in the 1990’s\, through Workers Aid for Bosnia. We will also plan how we can strengthen the international links between trade unions in the Northeast and Bosnia. \nThe story of North East links with Bosnia can be found on the NELHS website here: From-Tuzla-to-Tyneside.docx (live.com) \nSpeakers include: \nSmajo Beso\, Bosnia Education Trust \nShirley Allen-Jackson\, WEA Area Education Manager Union Learning \nRosie Tapsfield\, Newcastle Schools of Sanctuary \nErin Parker\, daughter of Workers Aid for Bosnia NE coordinator Tony Parker  \n10 a.m. – 1 p.m. Saturday 18th MarchBewick Room\, City Library\, New Bridge Street West\, Newcastle\, NE1 8AX \nPlease join us for what will be an uplifting and important meeting. \nFor more information please contact Peter Sagar at peter0462@gmail.com
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LOCATION:Bewick Room\, Newcastle City Library\, Newcastle upon Tyne\, NE1 8AX
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SUMMARY:NELH Tuesday Meeting. Charlie McGuire (Teesside University): The 1980 Steel Strike on Teesside
DESCRIPTION:Join Zoom Meeting\n\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/82005871102?pwd=NVZvSEhwcHpwejRySG1JZFMxaDdIZz09\n \nMeeting ID: 820 0587 1102\nPasscode: 043412\n  \nThe focus of the talk is the 1980 national steelworkers’ strike and its impact in Teesside. This was the first national industrial conflict between trade unions and Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government\, which had been elected seven months earlier. Lasting three months\, from January-April 1980\, it was – up to that point – the largest strike in post-1945 British history\, involving over 100\,000 workers and accounting for almost 9 million working days.  \nIt was the first national strike in the history of the British steel industry (excluding the General Strike of 1926) and was characterised by very high levels of activism from the workers\, in the form of mass picketing\, widespread secondary picketing\, and involvement in the numerous strike committees that were organised throughout the steel-producing regions in Britain. The outcome of the strike was a higher pay increase for workers\, but this was accompanied with a continuation of the closures and redundancies programme; by the end of the 13-month period from the finish of the strike to May 1981\, British Steel Corporation\, under its new Chairman\, Ian McGregor\, had shed over 55\,000 jobs. \nTeesside was heavily dependent on steel as a source of employment. In 1980\, around 21\,000 people worked in the region’s steel plants\, including Hartlepool\, Redcar-Lackenby\, South Bank and Cargo Fleet among others. Therefore when the strike was called\, it proved to be a significant social\, economic and political event. The strike was very well-supported and organised in the local steel works. However\, in the years following the strike\, job losses hit the Teesside steel industry and by 1986 employment was down to just 7\,000. This talk will explore the strike and discuss its difficult aftermath in this region.   \nCharlie McGuire is a senior lecturer in history at Teesside University. His main research areas are in Irish and British labour history. Charlie’s PhD was a study of the career of Irish socialist and labour movement activist Roddy Connolly\, who was the son of James Connolly. This formed the basis of the book Roddy Connolly and the Struggle for Socialism in Ireland\, published by Cork University Press in 2008. His second monograph Sean McLoughlin: Ireland’s Forgotten Revolutionary was published by Merlin Press in 2011 and focused on the life of a little-known but significant figure of the Irish Revolution. \nCharlie continues to research in Irish labour history\, and is also interested in oral histories of working lives and trade union struggles in Britain. He was part of a major oral history project at Westminster University that focused on building worker trade unionism in post-war Britain and is currently researching an oral history study of the 1980 national steelworkers strike\, which will be published by Manchester University Press.
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SUMMARY:The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists at the Tyneside Irish Centre
DESCRIPTION:Neil Gore’s brilliant one man show returns to Tyneside Irish Centre on 24th March 2023\nThe Ragged Trousered Philanthropists  adapted by Neil Gore from the book by Robert Tressell\, directed by Louise Townsend \nNeil Gore\, presents a one-person version of the classic novel by Robert Tressell featuring projection\, political conjuring tricks\, live music and song. Meet the famous characters and enjoy the scenes\, speeches and songs\, featuring the Great Money Trick as its centrepiece. \nThis enduring and absorbing classic story of a year in the life of a group of Edwardian painters and decorators is brought to life by Neil Gore using his extensive knowledge of the book and the play\, having performed it in many versions over forty years. \n‘The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists’ follows a group of workers as they renovate ‘The Cave’\, a three-storey town house\, for Mayor Sweater. It traces their hardships and struggles for survival in a complacent and stagnating Edwardian England.  \nThese workers are the ‘philanthropists’ who throw themselves into back-breaking work for poverty wages in order to generate profit for their masters. They are joined by artist Owen\, whose spirited attacks on the dishonesty of Capitalism along with his Socialist vision\, highlights the exploitation in their workplace but also focuses on the inequality in society as a whole. \nTickets £15\, £10 concesssions.-  available on Eventbrite:  https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/518591379777 or contact us on 0191 261 0385 or at tyneirishcs@gmail.com
URL:https://nelh.net/event/the-ragged-trousered-philanthropists-at-the-tyneside-irish-centre/
LOCATION:Tyneside Irish Centre\, 43 Gallowgate\, Newcastle upon Tyne\, NE1 4SG\, United Kingdom
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