Events

In 1932 one government response to mass unemployment was to fund the National Council for Voluntary Service to set up clubs and social centres for the unemployed. They offered members materials and instruction in boot-repair, carpentry, and allotment gardening, clothes making and alteration. Some like Rock House in Seaham and the Spennymoor Settlement also provided discussion-based […]

For the past seven years men from Teesside who volunteered to fight fascism and defended democracy during the Spanish Civil War of 1936-39 have been remembered at a special commemorative event, thirty Two Teesside volunteers served in the International Brigade in Spain, of these ten lost their lives. This year our Teesside Volunteers for Liberty […]

For the past seven years men from the North East of England who volunteered to fight fascism and defended democracy in the International Brigade during the Spanish Civil War of 1936-39 have been remembered at commemorative events organised by the North East Volunteers for Liberty, these are held in Newcastle, Sunderland and on Teesside; see […]