North East Labour History
Join Education4Action in celebrating the songs and politics of the Durham Coalfield with the Folk Music singer/songwriters The Elliot’s of Birtley, and Benny Graham, Pitmen Poet and giant of the North East Folk Scene. Mary Foy MP will also be speaking at the event and there will be a talk from Robert Gildea on his […]
From Peter Sagar Sunderland Minster, 6.30pm, 11 July As some of you are aware, 11th July marks the 28th anniversary of the terrible genocide at Srebrenica in Bosnia when 8372 innocent men and boys were murdered by Serbian forces, during the war in the former Yugoslvaia. Other massacres also took place during that terrible conflict […]
Through an account of the relationship between picket lines and drivers in Britain, this talk thinks about questions of mobility in labour history. It focuses on three moments in this period. First, the 1972 miners’ strike, when interactions between pickets and hauliers produced moments of powerful solidarity but also violent conflict. Second, debates around a […]
Wednesday, July 26 @ 2pm & 6.30pm The Hub, Cramlington We had 160 at the meetings about the Cramlington Train Wreckers on March 30 and the follow-up film/talk in July 26 has already attracted 75 people with seven weeks to go. The event during the General Strike led to the imprisonment of eight Northumberland miners […]