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The Topics include ones created during and after the North East Labour History North East Popular Politics Project (2010-13) and includes Topics created during the 2007 Tyne & Wear Remembering Slavery Project and afterwards by the North East Slavery & Abolition Group.
1 Introduction
2 Project Topic Nos 1-299
3 Project Topic Nos 300ff
4 Project Topic list 4
5 Local Petitioning 1788-1793
6 Petitions to Newcastle Common Council 1788
7 Petitions to Newcastle Common Council 1789-91
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9 Petitions to Newcastle Common Council
10 Petitions to Newcastle Common Council
11 Petitions to Newcastle Common Council 1794-95
12 Petitions to Newcastle Common Council 1796-7
13 Petitions to Newcastle Common Council 1796-97
14 Petitions to Newcastle Common Council 1807-08
15 Petitions to Newcastle Common Council 1815
16 Petitions to Newcastle Common Council 1819-21
17 Petitions to Newcastle Common Council 1822-23
18 North Shields & North Tyneside -Introductory Notes
19 North Shields & North Tyneside Quakers & Anti-Slavery -An Introduction
20 North Shields Local Studies Catalogue Listing
21 South Shields Local Studies Catalogue Listing
22 South Shields: Past, Present & Future -Thomas Salmon
23 Havelock’s Local Records of Northern England
24 Havelock’s Local Records of Northern England January 1885
25 Northern John Bull 1829
26 Wawn Family
27 Darlington Introduction
28 Darlington Historical Information
29 Darlington. The Importance of the Quakers
30 Darlington Slavery and Abolition
31 Darlington Black Residents
32 Darlington Local Studies Catalogue Listing
33 Darlington Women’s History
34 Darlington Strikes
35 Darlington Trade Unions 1897-1902
36 Darlington People & Organisations 1897-1905 & 1915
37 Darlington Labour News 1920s
38 Darlington Labour Representation Committee 1903
39 Darlington Women’s Meeting 1880
40 A Miner’s Conversion to Socialism
41 Tyneside Wool Workers and Their Processions
42 Bill Quay and Pelaw Labour Party 1926
43 Northern Tribune 1854-5 An Introduction
44 A History of Coxhoe
45 Bewicke Main. The Colliery Village which disappeared
46 Notes on the History of Bearpark
47 Quaker Meeting Houses and Burial Grounds
48 Newcastle’s Increased Death Rate 1889
49 The 18th Century Electorate
50 Towards a Popular Politics History of Aycliffe
51 Towards a Popular Politics History of Pegswood
52 The Protestant Association
53 Developing Moral and Social Capital in the North East -the contribution of abolitionists
54 The Politics of Landscape and Environment in the North East
55 Anna & Henry Richardson Newcastle Quaker Anti-slavery, Peace and Animal Rights journalism
56 Reflections on ”The Black Indies’ -the North East and Slavery and Abolition
57 Pandon Dene: A Sylvan Retreat for Strolling Lovers
58 Burials, Funerals and Cemeteries
59 Public Health of Tyne and Wear
60 Public Health Archives at Tyne & Wear Archives
61 The Effect of Cholera in the North East
62 Newcastle Medical Officer of Health Annual Reports 1873-1877
63 Newcastle Streets Act 1874
64-72 Newcastle Medical Officer of Health Reports
73 Radical Press Reports on North East 1831 to 1834
74 Sunderland Introduction
75 Sunderland Miscellaneous Notes
76 Sunderland’s Links with the American and West Indian Colonies
77 Sunderland Involvements in the Slavery Business and the campaigns to abolish it
78 The Thornhills
79 James Stanfield
80 The Ettricks
81 The Michael Longridges
82 Sunderland and the French Revolution and Wars
83 Sunderland Politics and Civil Society 1820s
84 Economic Problems from 1815
85 Religion in Sunderland
86 Sunderland Chartism
87 Sunderland’s Industries
88 Dr Charles Duncan O’Neal
89 Sunderland Between the Wars
90 Towards a Cultural Life of Sunderland
91 Houghton-le-Spring Some Notes
92 Sunderland Local Studies Listing
93 Sunderland Card Index Listing
94 Lilburne Collection 1 Gateshead, Newcastle
95 Lilburne Collection 2 Gateshead, Newcastle
96 Lilburne Collection Political Litany 1817
97 Lilburne Collection 3 General
98 Lilburne Collection 4 General
99 Lilburne Collection Durham.
100 Lilburne Collection Miscellaneous
101 Sunderland Shipping Issues.
102 Sunderland Education and Health
103 Sunderland Local Pamphlets Miscellaneous
104 Sunderland Benevolent Societies and Unions
105 Sunderland Transport and Health
106 Sunderland Cultural Associations
107 Sunderland Literature
108 Hudson’s Worth
109 Sunderland Religious Tracts 1
110 Sunderland Religious Tracts 2
111 Sunderland Religious Tracts 3
112 Sunderland Year Book 1902
113 Sunderland Year Book 1903
114 Sunderland Year Book 1904
115 Sunderland Year Book 1905
116 Sunderland Year Book 1906
117 Sunderland Year Book 1907
118 Sunderland Year Book 1908
119 Sunderland Year Book 1909
120 Sunderland Year Book 1910
121 Sunderland District Tract
122 History of the Assembly Garth & Trafalgar Square Seaman’s Houses
123 Sunderland Herald 1830s
124 Sunderland Herald 1840-1849
125 Sunderland Echo 1910-1919
126 Berwick & District Framework
127 Berwick Record Office Catalogue
128 Berwick Record Office Oral History Catalogue
129 Berwick Shipping information
130 Northumberland Presbyterians and anti-slavery
131 Berwick United Association Congregational Society of Church St
132 Berwick Advertiser Notices
133 Berwick & Women’s Suffrage newspaper coverage
134 Gateshead Local Studies Introduction
135 Gateshead Local Studies catalogue listing: general items
136 Gateshead Local Studies Catalogue Listing Tracts and Pamphlets Volumes
137 Anderson Tracts
138 Gateshead Pamphlets
139 Gateshead Newspaper Cuttings 1864-1944
140 Gateshead Newspaper Cuttings 1883-1901
141 Gateshead Newspaper Cuttings 1902-1912
142 Gateshead Newspaper Cuttings 1914-1922
143 Gateshead Newspaper Cuttings 1931 –1933
144 Gateshead Newspaper Cuttings 1936 –1938
145 Gateshead Newspaper Cuttings 1938 –1939
146 Gateshead Religious Tracts
147 Oxberry Gateshead Notes
148 Oxberry Gateshead Scraps
149 Industrial Unionism and the Mining Industry 1917
150 Capitalism in the Northern Coalfield 1918
151 Blaydon Courier 1921
152 Workers Searchlight 1926
153 Tom Marshall Collection Newspapers
154 International Socialist Education
155 Miners Advocate and Record January –June 1873
156 Tom Marshall Collection Boxes Listing
157 Tom Marshall Collection Soup Kitchens
158 Tom Marshall Collection Birtley
159 Tom Marshall Collection ‘Women’s Football’
160 Tom Marshall Collection: Women and Work in WW1
161 Tom Marshall Collection: Women at Work in WW1 and Women’s Football
162 Miners Advocate and Record July to November 1873
163 Chester le Street Chronicle & District Advertiser 1913
164 The Stanley News January to February 1920
165 Durham Chronicle and County Gazette January to February 1913
166 Durham County Record Office –Introduction
167 Durham Slavery & Abolition to 1807
168 Durham Slavery & Abolition from 1808
169 Durham Anti-Slavery Meeting 4 July 1814
170 Durham Co-operation
171 Bishop Auckland Co-operative Society
172 Durham Labour & Socialism
173 Hebburn Labour Party & Trades Council Minutes 1929-1934
174 Jarrow and Hebburn Labour Party & Trades Council Minutes 1924-1929
175 Newcastle Labour Party 1918-1919
176 Newcastle Labour Party 1919 –1920
177 Washington Labour News election publication 1923
178 Emmie Lawther: Labour Activist: A Tribute
179 Durham Trade Unionism
180 Durham Amalgamated Society of Carpenters & Joiners 1912-1923
181 Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers 1935 -1947
182 Anderston Foundry Wages Agreements 1922 –1951
183 Anderston Foundry Employer and Worker Relations on Wages 1925 to 1942
184 Amalgamated Union of Building Trade Workers Crook Branch, 1947-1954
185 Barnard Castle Association of Cotton Weavers 1810-20
186 Association of Cotton Weavers 1810-1820
187 Marsden Lodge Minute Books December 1909-November 1910
188 Marsden Lodge Minute Books December 1911-August 1912
189 Marsden Lodge Minute Books September 1912-June 1913
190 Marsden Lodge Minute Books June 1913-March 1914
191 Marsden Lodge Minute Books March-December 1914
192 Marsden Lodge Minute Books Nov 1916-September 1917
193 Marsden Lodge Minute Books October 6 1917-July 1918
194 Marsden Lodge Minute Books 29 November 1919-29 August 1920
195 Marsden Miners Lodge Minute Books September 2 1920-May 5 1921
196 Durham Miners Association Sam Watson Papers Boxes 1 -19
197 Durham Miners Association Sam Watson Papers Boxes 20-39
198 Durham Miners Association Sam Watson Papers Boxes 40-50
199 Stonemens Minute Book September 1909-July 1912
200 Chester-le-Street National Union of Teachers Minutes 12 November 1912-23 September 1920
201 Stonemasons in Gainsford, Stockton Lodge Rules 1872
202 North Hetton Pitmen –Address to The Public 1832
203 North Eastern Labour College 1924-51
204 Durham Politics & Economy 1609-1799
205 Stockton Food Riot 1740
206 North Eastern Labour College Classes 1924-25
207 Durham and District Labour College 1928 to 1929 & 1930
208 Durham Politics & Economy 1800 –1839
209 Poor Law Examinations 1812-1830
210 Durham Coalfield Unrest 1839
211 Durham Politics and Economy 1840 to 1899
212 Anderston Foundry Company
213 Durham Politics and Economy 1900ff
214 Durham Civil Society Organisations
215 Durham Religious Organisations and Affairs
216 Shotton Family Papers
217 Durham Women
218 Lord Londonderry and Politics in Durham 1838
219 Lord Londonderry and Ireland 1847 & 1848
220 Lord Londonderry Affairs 1797-1857
221 Policing Durham 1842 to 1844
222 Policing Durham’s Mining Communities during the 1844 Miners Strike
223 The Peases
224 Newcastle Manhood Suffrage Demonstration 1873
225 The Anti Butcher Meat Agitation in the Colliery Districts June 1872
226 Literary & Philosophical Society Introduction
227 Newcastle General Magazine 1748-1760
228 English Revolution Period
229 The Northern Discovery 1641
230 Newcastle Corporation Minutes 1645-56
231 Biography
232 The Unfortunate William Moraley
233 James Losh (1762-1833)
234 William Turner
235 Mary & William Howitt
236 Edward Pease’s Diaries
237 Harriett Martineau
238 Robert Spence Watson
239 Slavery & Abolition
240 Newcastle Chronicle 1779, 1782, 1794
241 House of Commons Debates and Speeches on Slave Trade Abolition 1789 and 1792
242 Clarkson’s Abolition of the Slave Trade
243 Anti-Jacobin Review 1803-1813
244 The Philanthropist 1818ff
245 Anti-slavery Poems 1807-1815
246 George Thompson Speech Newcastle 1838
247 Charles Sumner’s Visits to Britain
248 Religious Organisations & Affairs
249 The Quaker Lloyds
250 Society of Friends in Newcastle & Gateshead 1653 –1898
251 The Quakers: Money & Morals
252 American Quakers Later History
253 Radicalism 1770s
254 Politics in French Revolution and Wars
255 Observations on the present war 1794
256 Durham City Election 1800
257 Durham Elections 1802
258 William Hails Poems
259 Elections 1826
260 Northumberland Election Summer 1826
261 Northumberland Elections 1826 –the Catholic Question
262 Politics & Elections 1830-1834
263 Northumberland Elections 1830-32
264 Northumberland Elections 1831
265 South Northumberland Election 1832
266 Meetings Re-Earl Grey’s Retirement 1834
267 Durham Elections 1837 and 1843
268 Northumberland Election 1852
269 Civic Society & Culture
270 Madame Tussaud’s Exhibition Durham 1827
271 Newcastle Literary & Philosophical Society Library Room Tracts Vols 1-99
272 Newcastle Literary & Philosophical Society Library Room Tracts Vols 100-199
273 Newcastle Literary & Philosophical Society Library Room Tracts Vols 200-299
274 Newcastle Literary & Philosophical Society Library Room Tracts Vols 300-399
275 Newcastle Literary & Philosophical Society Library Room Tracts Vols 400-513
276 Hodgson Family Papers Introduction & Listing
277 Personal Papers of the Hodgson Family, 1778-1878
278 Correspondence of the Hodgson Family 1775-1809
279 Hodgson Family Correspondence 1779-1899
280 Letters to and from James Hodgson c.1822-1866
281 Hodgson Family Correspondence 1779-1899
282 Financial Records of The Hodgson Family
283 Financial Records of The Hodgson Family
284 Hodgson Family Miscellaneous
285 Hodgson Family Notes on local poetry, poets and sermons
286 Hodgson Family Notes on Newcastle Water Supply
287 Hodgson Wills and Property Details
288 Thomas Slack Printer & Founder of the Newcastle Chronicle 1732-1784
289 Newcastle Central Library Introduction
290 Agriculture Card Catalogue
291 Co-operatives & Other Working Class Societies
292 Culture 1
293 Culture 2
294 Education
295 Miners & Mining
296 Politics & Elections
297 Social Action & Welfare
298 Seymour Bell Miscellaneous Properties
299 Seymour Bell Pandon Dene
300 Seymour Bell Pubs & Inns
301 Seymour Bell Shieldfield
302 Newcastle Evening Chronicle 1911 –to be added
303 Biographies –Tracts
304 Eminent Old Boys of Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School –1
305 Eminent Old Boys of Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School –2
306 Theological Tracts
307 Lectures & Addresses Tracts
308 Sermons & Addresses Tracts
309 Law, Trials & Capital Punishment Tracts
310 Songs & Poetry Tracts
311 Tales, Romances & Drama Tracts
312 Theological Tracts -2
313 Arts & Science Tracts
314 Northumberland & Durham Tracts
315 Political Tracts
316 Miscellaneous Tracts -1
317 Schools, Libraries & Debating Societies Tracts
318 Miscellaneous Tracts -2
319 Miscellaneous Tracts -3 inc Politics & Socialism
320 Miscellaneous Tracts -4
321 Temperance Tracts
322 Miscellaneous Tracts –5
323 Protestant Association
324 Theological Tracts –2
325 Advice of preserving peace, liberty and property 1792
326 Lecture on the Romish Priesthood 1852
327 Hoarding of corn and meat 1795
328 History of Newcastle Teetotalism to 1885
329 Durham Election 1833: Mr Pease’s speeches
330 United Society of Boiler-makers and Iron Ship Builders Rules and Regulations 1834 revised 1880
331 Prosecution of Rev Thomas Hill 1819-23
332 Newcastle Printers’ Benefit Society 1797 –1897
333 Peterloo and Its Aftermath 1819-1820
334 The White Hat 1819
335 Propagation of the Gospel Meeting 1827
336 Threat to Disestablishment of the Church of England 1885
337 Miscellaneous Tracts 6
338 Poetry Tracts
339 The Bishop’s Raid and Other Poems
340 Thomas Wilson Gateshead Fell Poem 1824
341 Miscellaneous Tracts 7 incThomas Doubleday
342 Writings of William Martin, “Christian Philosopher”, 1836-1848
343 Miscellaneous Tracts 7
344 Sermons incmany Political
345 Hexham Revolt 1761
346 RevJohn Bailie’s sermon on the Death of the Papacy 1798
347 Rev Gellatly on Wars and Rumours of Wars 1807
348 Speeches, lectures, addresses Tracts1779-1879
349A ntiquities, heraldry etcTracts 1822-1879
350 History Tracts, uncivilWar
351 Coal Trade Tracts
352 John Buddle on the State of the Coal Trade 1829
353 Pitmen’s Grievances 1825
354 John Buddle on Ventilation of Coal Mines
355 The State of the Coal Trade 1836?
356 Observations on the duty on sea-borne coal 1831
357 Colliery explosions and disasters 1835-1882
358 Haswell Colliery Explosion 1844
359 Newcastle Town Affairs 1809-1887
360 Newcastle Local Studies Local Tracts Listing Vols Dy 30 –131
361 Queen Caroline Affair 1820-21
362 River Tyne Issues
363 Politics 1794 –1894
364 Response to Peterloo in Manchester August 1819
365 Bishop Toby’s Pilgrimage 1832
366 Banks and Banking
367 Cemeteries and Tolls
368 Westgate Hill Cemetery
369 Sketches of Oldminster: the ‘chares’ of Newcastle and their inhabitants 1858
370 A Case under the Thorough Toll of Newcastle upon Tyne –Salted Pork or Bacon? 1878
371 The Thorough Toll of Newcastle upon Tyne Grievance and Injustice 1878
372 History of the Carliol Tower, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1879
373 Education Issues
374 Miscellaneous Tracts –8
375 Church Congress Annual Meeting, Newcastle, 1881
376 North Shields & Tynemouth Affairs
377 Liberal Society of Tradesmen 1818
378 Miscellaneous Tracts –9
379 Rev. HenryPhillpotts on John Ambrose Williams’ trial 1823
380 Advice to the lower ranks of society 1803
381 English Civil War
382 1807 Northumberland Election
383 Grain Hoarding 1740
384 Frenchmen in Newcastle in the 18th Century -Jean Paul Marat
385 Newcastle and the Puritan Revolution
386 Henry Kerr & Health in Newcastle 1916
387 Infectious Diseases in Newcastle 1888
388 Local Broadsides c1815 –1855
389 Northumberland Collections Introduction
390 Thomas George Armstrong Papers
391 Eddie Milne, Ivor Richards & the Blyth Election 1974
392 Blyth 1974 Election Conservative Party Leaflet
393 Blyth 1974 Return Eddie Milne Leaflet
394 Blyth 1974 Election Labour & Eddie Milne -The Facts
395 Blyth 1974 Election -John Shipley Liberal
396 Culture, Clothing & Fashion
397 Enclosure awards Northumberland 1787 –1893
398 Dan Dawson and Wansbeck & Newburn Labour Parties 1917-1959
399 Labour Movement Publications 1889 -1968
400 Family & Estate Papers Allgood to Errrington
401 Blackett Family
402 Tynemouth Election Posters 1857
403 Family & Estate Papers Fenwick to Wallington
404 Apprenticeship Indentures pre 1800
405 Apprenticeship Indentures 1800 -1849
406 Apprenticeship Indentures 1850 –1914
407 1926 General Strike Newspapers
408 Josephine Butler Letters & Diaries
409 Josephine Butler Pamphlets & Ephemera
410 Northumberland Collections General Listing 1
411 Northumberland Collections General Listing 2
412 Newcastle Newspaper Cuttings 1842-47
413 Northumberland Elections 1818 & 1820
414 Northumberland Election 1826
415 Northumberland Miners Union Records
416 Northumberland Miners’ Minutes 1899
417 Northumberland Miners’ Minutes 1900
418 Northumberland Miners’ Minutes 1901
419 Northumberland Miners Records 1917 -1920
420 Northumberland NUM 1971
421 Woodhorn Colliery NUM 1972-74
422 Northumberland NUM 1976
423 Northumberland NUM 1980
424 Northumberland NUM 1985
425 Northumberland Collections Print Catalogue Listing Vols 1 &2
426 Northumberland Collections Print Catalogue Listing Vols 3 & 4
427 Northumberland Collections Print Catalogue Listing Vols 5 & 6
428 Northumberland Collections Print Catalogue Listing Vols 7 –9
429 Northumberland Collections Print Catalogue Listing Vols 10 –13
430 Rev. Robert Trotter of Morpeth
431 Ruskin College Scholarships 1906-8
432 Society of Antiquarians of Newcastle-upon-Tyne Collections
433 Thomas Burt’s Election to Parliament Poem
434 Thomas Burt Memorial Hall Opening 1898 Poem
435 Dr Tripplet’s Charity
436 Oral History Interviews Introduction
437 Leah Interview
438 MM Interview -part 1 Women’s Liberation Conference and Benwell Law Centre
439 MM Interview -part 2 Greenham Common Peace Camp
440 Carole Bell Interview -Meadow Well Estate
441 Pat Buttle Interview -Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers
442 David Connolly Interview -The Cooperative Movement in the North-East since 1970s
443 John Creaby Interview -Growing Up in Gateshead
444 Mandy English (Jones) Interview -Campaign to change thelaw on secondary murder
445 Kevin Flynn Interview –Radical Politics in the 1970s (WRP & GMB)
446 Steve Grinter Interview -Radical Politics in the 1970s (IMG)
447 Doris Hutchinson Interview -Early Life in Darlington 1930s
448 Sandy Irving Interview -Radical Left Politics in the North East in the 1970s (IS)
449 Thea Khamis Interview -Growing up and Labour in Stanley
450 Joan Lamb Interview -Newcastle Co-operation & Labour
451 Peter Latham Interview – Community and Political Action in Newcastle
452 Carol Lewellyn Interview -Training to be a Nurse in 1970s
453 Bob Murdoch Interview -Growing up in Scotland & Trade Unionism in Newcastle
454 Bala Nair Interview -Co-operation & Labour -An Indian Perspective
455 Amanda Normand Interview – Meadowell Community Action
456 Sheila Smiles Interview -Community Action in Cullercoats
457 Mary Stratford Interview -Role of Women in Labour Party and 1984-5 Miners’ Strike
458 Celia Sumner Interview -Co-operative Women’s Guild
459 Margaret Tweedie Interview -Co-operation & Community Action in Scotswood
460 Tyne & Wear Archives Introduction
461 TWA ACC Vol 1
462 TWA ACC listing Vols 2 & 3
463 TWA Vol 4
464 TWA ACC Vol 5
465 TWA AC C Vol 6
466 TWA ACC Vols 7 –8
467 TWA ACC Vol 9
468 TWA ACC Listing Vols 10& 11
469 TWA ACC Listing Vols 12 & 13
470 TWA ACC Listing Vols14–18
471 TWA ACC Vols 19 & 20
472 TWA ACC Vols 21-24
473 TWA ACC Listing Vols 25 & 26
474 TWA ACC Listing Vols 27 & 28
475 TWA ACC Vol 29
476 TWA ACC Vol 30
477 TWA ACC Vol 31 & 32
478 TWA ACC Vol 33
479 TWA Temporary Vols 1-3 Listings
480 TWA Vol T4 Listing
481 TWA Vol T5 Listing
482 TWA Alphabetical Collection Volumes A-D Listing
483 TWA Alphabetical Collection Volumes Eff Listing
484 Political Posters c1830 –1946
485 Bramble Papers
486 Chartism
487 Co-operatives
488 Thomas Dixon Part 1
489 Thomas Dixon Part 2
490 Ephemera
491 Friendly Societies & Civil Society Organisations
492 Labour Movement
493 Sir Arthur Oliver Maule Collection.
494 Quarter Sessions and the Role of Magistrates
495 The Plebs League, Labour Colleges and Working Class Education in the North East 1900-1940
496 Thomas Wilson Collections Introduction
497 Thomas Wilson Newcastle Collection Vol 1 1738-1824
498 Thomas Wilson Newcastle Collection Vol 5 1835-1836
499 Thomas Wilson Newcastle Collection Vols 6, 7 & 9 1836-1843
500 Thomas Wilson Newcastle Collection Vol 12 1847-1851
501 Thomas Wilson Gateshead Collection Vol 1 Introduction & Items 1-20
502 Thomas Wilson Gateshead Collection Vol 1 Items 21-55 1822-1824
503 Thomas Wilson Gateshead Collection Vol 56-84 1824-1828
504 Thomas Wilson Gateshead Collection Vol 85-124 1828-1831
505 Thomas Wilson Gateshead Collection Vol 125-167 1831-1832
506 Thomas Wilson Gateshead Collection Vol 168-213 1831-1832
507 Thomas Wilson Gateshead Collection Vol 214-269 1832-1833
508 Thomas Wilson Gateshead Collection Vol 270-306 1833
509 Thomas Wilson Gateshead Collection Vol 2 1834 – 1837
510 Thomas Wilson Gateshead Collection Vol 3 1837 -1840 To be added
511 Thomas Wilson Gateshead Collection Vol 41 1841-1843
512 Thomas Wilson Gateshead Collection Vol 41841-1843 Elections
513 Thomas Wilson Gateshead Collection Vols 5 & 6 1844-1850
514 Thomas Wilson Gateshead Fell Collection 1799-1850
515 Thomas Wilson Memorandum Books 1819-1853
516 Thomas Wilson Communications 1795-1857
517 Thomas Wilson: ‘The Pitman’s Pay and Other Poems’
518 Gateshead Observer 1838
519 Newcastle Courant 1838
520 Newcastle Journal 1838
521 Gateshead Observer 1839
522 Newcastle Journal 1839
523 Robinson Library Special Collections –Introduction
524 Writings on Africa
525 Writings on the Americas
526 Writings on Political, Religious and Local Affairs 1747-1943
527 Writings on Slavery, Anti-Slavery and the West Indies
528 South Sea Company
529 Edward Thompson’s Sailors Letters 1754 –1759
530 18thC Collection
531 1801-1850 Collection
532 John and Thomas Bell Collection
533 Clarke Collection
534 Cowen Tracts
535 Friends Collection
536 Grey Tracts –Slavery and Anti-Slavery
537 The Trevelyans – Introduction & Listing
538 The Trevelyans and Grenada Slave Ownership
539 C P Trevelyan – Poverty, Religion and Education
540 Sir Walter Claverley Trevelyan (1797-1879) Papers
541 Spence Watson Papers 1833-1946
542 White Collection
543 Northumberland Elections 1826
544 Women’s Dreadnaught 1916
545 Woodhorn Colliery Union Branch 1919
546 Woodhorn Colliery NUM 1972-74
547 Coal Strike 1984-85 Area Strike Committee
548 Durham Chronicle 1871
549 Miscellaneous 1803-1952
550 Ashington Miners Federation Branch 1926 –1927
551 NUM Northumberland Executive 1977 & 1978
552 NUM Northumberland Executive 1979 & 1980
553 Seaton Devalel Miners 1972
535 Newcastle Courant 1839
555 Newcastle Daily Chronicle January 1910
556 Newcastle Daily Chronicle February 1910
557 Newcastle Daily Chronicle March 1910
558 Newcastle Daily Chronicle April 1910
559 Newcastle Daily Chronicle May 1910
560 The Newcastle Daily Chronicle March 1911
561 The Newcastle Daily Chronicle April 1911
562 The Newcastle Daily Chronicle November 1911
563 The Newcastle Daily Chronicle December 1911
564 Northumberland Miners’ Minutes 1911
565 Northumberland Miners’ Mutual Confidence Association Minute 1919
566 Northumberland Miners and Mining Miscellaneous 1836 -1961
567 Northumberland Friendly & Masonic Societies (
568 Miners Farewell to Allenheads in May 1849 Poem
569 Northumberland Miners Minutes 1924
570 Northumberland Miners Minutes 1917
571 Northumberland Farming and Agriculture 18th/early 19thC
572 North East Labour Movement Intelligence Reports to Cabinet Office 1919-1920
573 North East Labour Movement Intelligence Reports to Cabinet Office 1921-1922
574 North East Labour Movement Intelligence Reports to Cabinet Office 1923
575 North East News in Radical Newspapers 1831 -1834
576 Lord Londonderry Affairs 1928
577 Northumberland Elections 1826, 1930 & 1832
578 Northumberland Election 1830
579 Newcastle Parliamentary Election 1832
580 The Quaker Richardsons
581 Meetings re-Earl Grey’s Retirement 1834
582 D’Arusment on Religion and Civilisation
583 Elizabeth Montagu
585 Morpeth Anti-Slavery Society Lobbying and Petition 1830
586 Morpeth Labour Women 1923-29 & 1941-48
587 Northumberland Labour 1974-79
588 Teesside Area Introduction
589 Teesside Area Co-operatives
590 Teesside Area Elections
591 Teesside Area Friendly Societies & Other Organisations
592 Teesside Area Health & Hospitals
593 Teesside Area Insurance
594 Teesside Area Labour, Socialist and Left Wing Organisations
595 Teesside Area Local Government
596 Teesside Area Miscellaneous
597 Teesside Area Parish and Religious Organisations
598 Pennyman Family Papers
599 British Steel in Teesside Area –to be added
600 Teesside Area Trade Unions
601 Teesside Area Wages and Working Conditions
602 Stockton Slavery and Abolition
603 Northumberland Labour Party 1936-1960
604 The Fight for the Parochial Vote -Sedghill 1876
605 Protest about agricultural workers’ conditions 1861
606 North East Labour Biography Introduction and A-D
607 North East Labour Biography E-H
608 North East Labour Biography I-N
609 North East Labour Biography O-S
610 North East Labour Biography T-Z
611 Anti-Slavery Tracts 1830-1840
612 Objects of the Newcastle Upon Tyne Society for Abolishing Slavery All Over The World 1836
613 The Workings of the Law for the Abolition of Slavery 1836
614 Anti-Slavery Monthly Reporter 1830-36
615 Negro Apprenticeship in the British Colonies 1837
616 Jamaica Under the Apprenticeship System by a Proprietor 1838
617 Colonial Laws as Examined by a Committee of the House of Commons 1836
618 Samuel Bowley Anti-Slavery Speech at Exeter Hall 1837
619 The Martyr Age of the United States of America 1840
620 The Foreign Slave Trade An 1837 Review
621 George Thompson Debate on America Slavery June 1836
622 North East Material at the TUC Library
623 Middlesbrough Trade Union and Co-operative Movement
624 The Cadogans, Barbados and Brinkburn Abbey
625 Peterloo Protest Meeting Newcastle Town Moor 1819
626 Society of Keelmen on the River Wear 1792
627 Mining Institute Material Introduction
628 Durham Mining Records at Sunderland University -Introduction
629 National Union of Mineworkers Durham Area (NUM) 1880s-1980s
630 North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers 1852-2000
631 Durham Area National Association of Colliery Overmen, Deputies and Shotfirers 1880s-1990s
632 Quaker Collection at Sunderland University
633 The Yorkshireman AReligious and Literary Journal by a Friend 1832-1837
634 Tyneside Quakers
635 Miners Wages, Strikes & History
636 Thomas Dixon and John Ruskin on Work 1867
637 Chester-le-Street: Birtley Belgians and Labour Movement 1911-1935
638 Suffrage and other issues –mainly speeches in Parliament 1784-1852
639 Hartlepool Working Class and Labour Movement History
640 Delaval Family papers
641 Le Melange Collection -Slavery, Africa and West Indies
642 To be allocated
643 Slavery and Abolition –An Introduction to the 2007 Tyne & Wear Remembering Slavery Project
644 Newcastle and North East Historical Notes
645 John Sykes’s Local Records–Extracts
646 History of Sunderland
647 William & Charles Cotesworth
648 The Maude and Ogden Families 1665-1936
649 The Devalels
650 Abolition and related material in Newcastle Courant 1791-1792
651 Captain Robert Hutton, Sunderland Slave Trader
652 Anthony Benezet’s Writings on Slavery 1785-1788
653 Anti-Slavery Activity 1788-1792
654 Rev Thomas Gisborne on Slavery & Abolition 1798
655 The Haitian Revolution
656 Wilberforce Speeches Text to be added
657 John Bruce, Newcastle Schoolmaster and social reformer
658 Women Anti-slavery campaigners in the North East
659 British Action Against Slavery after 1838
660 Darlington Meeting on British India Feb 1839
661 Frederick Douglass, Black American Abolitionist
662 Tyne and Wear Chamber of Commerce and Industry 1815-1830
663 A Soldier’ View of the War 1914-1915
664 Travellers in Africa and Their Writings 1794-1815
665 Travellers in South America, Honduras and Surinam and their Writings
666 History and Description of, and Murder and Runaways in, the West Indies
667 The Peace Treaty 1814 and the French Slave Trade
668 Slave Registration Legislation 1816 to 1820
669 Koster on the Amelioration of Slavery 1816
670 House of Commons Debates on Slavery and Abolition 1823 to 1825
671 James Cropper’s Views on East India Sugar and West Indian Distress, 1822 to 1824
672 Macaulay’s Views on Slavery 1823 to 1826
673 Liverpool and Leicester and Women’s Anti -Slavery Society Views 1820s
674 African Institution Reports 1826 and 1827
675 Ashington Co-operative Society Minutes 4 August 1914 -31 May 1915
676 Ashington Co-operative Society Minutes 1 June 1915 –27 May 1916
677 Ashington Co-operative Society Minutes 29 May 1916 –1 May 1917
678 Ashington Co-operative Committee Minutes May to November 1917
679 Northumberland in the First World War Miscellaneous
680 Ashington Co-operative Minutes 1918
681 Ashington Co-operative(Finance & Wages Committees Minutes 1917-1920
682 Arnold Stevenson, Conscientious Objector, 1914-1918
683 Aliens in Northumberland –Part 1 –additional material
684 Aliens in Northumberland –Part 2
685 Aliens in Northumberland –Part 3
686 Ashington Co-operative Minutes June 1918 to April 1919
687 Ashington Co-operative Minutes May 1919 to March 1920
688 Northumberland Agricultural Census Papers
689 Aliens in Northumberland –Part 4
690 Letters of Major WAMurray, DSO, 1914-1919
691 A new Rochdale? The Sunderland Poor Store & Settlement
692 To be allocated
693 To be allocated
694 Ashington CoalCompany Minute Book No.5
695 Hexham Tribunals
696 Defence of the Realm Manual Re-Mines
697 Letters to Private W N Hall 1916
698 Blyth News & Illustrated Chronicle 1914 & 1915
699 Ashington Co-op Minute Book 1 June 1915 –27th May 1916 –duplicate 677
700 Dairy of William Liddle of Royal Naval Division 1915
701 Ashington Hirst Primary School Log Book 1907-1950 Senior Boys
702 Ashington Hirst Primary School Log Book 1908-1942 Junior Girls
703 Ashington Hirst Primary School Log Book 1908-1966 Junior Boys
704 Ashington Hirst Primary School Log Book 1908-1967 Senior Girls
705 Northumberland County Council Minutes May 1914-Feb 1915
706 Northumberland County Council Minutes May 1914-Feb 1915
707 Small Holdings and Allotments Committee Minutes, May 1919–January 1921
708 Aliens of Northumberland Part 2 section 2
709 Estate Management: The Ridleys Park End 1916-1918
710 Military Tribunal Collections 1 (1914-18)
711 Military Tribunal Collection 2
712 Ashington Co-op. Minute Book 1 June 1915 –27th May 1916 (duplicate)
713 Ashington Co-operative Society Minutes 29th May 1916 –1st May 1917 (duplicate)
714 Ashington Co-operative Society Minutes –no details
715 Military Tribunal 2
716 Printed Papers -Insurance Installation Policy Victory 5% War Loan
717 War Memorials
718 County Council Minutes 1918-1919
719 Small Holdings and Allotments Committee Mins 1921-1925
720 Morpeth Cottage Hospital and District Nursing Association Minute Book 1898-1918
721 Aliens in Northumberland 1914-1930 Part 5
7223 North East 2WW & National Service Conscientious Objectors: Granville Davies, Michael Day & Christopher Dowse
723 Thomas Atkinson, Engineering’s Forgotten Labour Activist
724 Newcastle Courant material 1813-14, esp. NAmerican& West Indies connections
725 The Slave Journal 1851-56 Introduction
726 The Slave Journal 1851 January to June
727 The Slave Journal 1851 July to December
728 The Slave Journal 1852 January to June
729 The Slave Journal 1852 July to December
730 The Slave Journal 1853 January to June
731 The Slave Journal 1853 July to December
732 The Slave Journal 1854 January to June
733 The Slave Journal 1854 July to December
734 The Slave Journal 1855
735 The Slave Journal 1856
736 Darlington Criticism of American Quakers Attitudes to Slavery 1840
737 The Hamiltons, Sundrum and Jamaica
738 Writings on Slavery and Abolition 1823-1829
739 Captain Charles Stuart: Anglo American Abolitionist
740 Georgia Colony Trustees and Emigrants to
741 The Lowthers’ American Connections
742 Will of James Hedley of Bewick Folly, Eglingham
743 Sunderland Miscellaneous Material
744 The Barretts and John Graham Clarke
745 Extracts from 18th Century North East Diaries: Rev. John Thomlinson, Thomas Gyll & Nicholas Brown
746 William Hart Coleridge -Bishop of Barbados
747 The Scottish Free Church and Slavery Dispute 1846
748 Writings on the American Civil War 1862
749 US Sanitary Commission 1861 and 1864
750 Writings on the American Civil War 1863
751 Writings on the American Civil War 1864-65
752 Black Narratives and Miscellaneous Writings re-America 1847-64
753 Writings on British Colonies and Race 1848 -1880s
754 Tyneside Affairs in Cowen Tracts 1786-1825
755 Thomas Bray & Associates
756 Literature on Africa, the Americas and West Indies
757 History and State of Cotton Manufacture in Great Britain 1835 & 1836
758 Howitt on Colonization and Christianity
759 Clarkson & Wilberforce writings on slavery 1823 and 1824
760 Slave Trade Papers 1814-1828
761 Royal Africa Company case for the slave trade 1748
762 Gin, rum, the sugar trade and wars 1736-1760
763 The Geography of American Slavery 1833
764 The United States of America 1833
765 Abdy on slavery in the United States 1833 and 1834
766 Other Writings about Slavery in the United States 1833
767 Writings on Africa 1830 to 1838
768 Newcastle Affairs 1830s
769 Sugar Cane: Properties and Practical Improvements 1831
770 Timber Duties: Proposal Alterations 1831
771 Anti-slavery speeches 1830
772 Mrs Carmichael on Living on Trinidad and St. Vincent
773 Life in the West Dies
774 Lewis Journal of a West Indian proprietor 1815 to 1817
775 Madden’s Twelve Months in the West Indies 1833 to 1834
776 William Allen’s American Biographical and Historical Dictionary 1831
777 William Knibb & Borthwick Debate on Colonial Slavery and Baptist Missionaries 1832
778 Free and Slave Labour Compared by Josiah Conder 1833
779 House of Commons Select Committee on Ending Slavery 1832
780 Newcastle anti-slavery speeches of James Losh and Walter Knibb 1833
781 Newcastle Plan for Abolition of Slavery by Rev Mortimer 1833
782 George Thompson Emancipation Speech Glasgow March 1833
783 Cropper’s Vindication of Emancipation Compensation Loan to West Indies Planters
784 Mrs Child’s Appeal in Favour of American Africans 1833
785 Histories of British and European Colonies 1834 and 1835
786 Harriett Martineau on the United States 1837 and 1838
787 The Workings of the Law for the Abolition of Slavery 1836
788 William E Channing on US Slavery 1836
789 The Day of Jubilee is Come: Joseph Watson’s Poem 1834
790 William Jay on American Colonization and Anti-Slavery Societies in America 1835
791 Foxwell Buxton on the African Slave Trade 1836
792 Working of the Apprenticeship System in the British Colonies 1837
793 Petition to end apprenticeship system in West Indies 1837
794 James William’s Experience as a slave and apprentice to 1837
795 Miscellaneous writings on slavery in the West Indies 1837
796 Stedman on the Surinam Revolt 1772-1777
797 The discovery and conquest of Guinea 15thC.
798 The 1840 Anti-Slavery Convention
799 The Island of Cuba –text to be added
800 Steven’s The Slave in History
801 Lady Nugent’s Jamaica Journal 1801-1805
802 Slavery and West Indies Debate 1802 to1807
803 Quaker Lives: Thomas Pumphrey and George Richardson
804 The Hankeys –Slave Owners
805 Sunderland Ships by built by J L Thompson 1846-1882
806 William Turner’s School pupils 1785-1825
807 –
808 Newcastle Ladies Negro Friend and Emancipation Society Minute Book 1838-1854
809 John Graham-Clarke’s Jamaican Plantations
810 Quakers on Tyne & Wear
811 Newcastle Society of Friends Minutes (mens) 1831 –1856
812 Yearly Epistles and Advice from the London Meetings to Newcastle Quakers
813 Newcastle Bible, Missionary & Tract Societies 1811-1826
814 Newcastle and Related Abolition Activity 1791-1833
815 Newcastle Edition of Evidence to House of Commons Select Committee on Abolition of the Slave Trade 1790/91
816 Consumption on Tyne & Wear & Northumberland 1710-1823
817 Newcastle Ladies View of Colonial Slavery 1830
818 Northern Association of Baptist Churches Abolition and Missionary Activities 1795-1850
819 Newcastle Burials and Miscellaneous Events 1753-1839
820 Orchard Plantation Jamaica 1832-1863
821 Jacob Glenwright and Jamaica 1795
822 Deaths in Jamaica reported in Berwick Advertiser 1808 to 1825
823 Berwick Congregationalists 1837-1904
824 Gateshead Anti-Slavery and other relevant matters 1827
825 The Ridleys and the colonies
826 The Cook and Ottley Letters from America 1760-61
827 Anthony Swymmer and the Strutts River Plantation Jamaica 1755
828 Edward Cook’s Letters from America 1780s
829 British Politics in Brazil 1826
830 Cumberland Record Office Slavery and Abolition Material
831 Alnwick -Slavery & Abolition
832 The Richardsons and The Olive Leaf magazine for children 1844-1857 -Introduction
833 Olive Leaf 1845
834 Olive Leaf 1846
835 Olive Leaf 1847
836 Olive Leaf 1848
837 Olive Leaf1849
838 Olive Leaf 1850
839 Olive Leaf 1851
840 Olive Leaf 1852
841 Olive Leaf 1853
842 Olive Leaf 1854
843 Olive Leaf 1856
844 Olive Leaf 1857
845 North East Quakers in the British Friend Introduction 1843-44
846 British Friend 1843
847 British Friend 1844
848 British Friend 18445-1847
849 British Friend 1848 -1849
850 British Friend 1850
851 British Friend 1851
852 British Friend 1852
853 British Friend 1853
854 British Friend 1854
855 British Friend 1855
856 British Friend 1856
857 British Friend 1857
858 British Friend 1858
859 British Friend 1859
860 Elihu Burritt and the Brotherhood, Free Produce and Peace Movements
861 The Herald of Peace journal – extracts about the North East 1851-January 1853
862 Unitarians and the North East Movement
863 The Slavery Business and the North East
864 Slave Compensation and Claimants with North East Links
865 Newcastle Courant Extracts 1769-1783 re-People with Connections in the Americas
866 Jarrow 1934-1963
867 Morpeth Affairs 1750s
868 Exhibitions of Pictures of the Northumberland Institution for the promotion of fine arts 1824-1893
869 South Shields Coal Emergency & Watch Committees 1926
870 Women’s Institutes in Northumberland
871 Sunderland Petition for City Status 1932
872 Miners and Employers Organisations 1926-27
873 Pegswood Branch- Mineworkers Federation 1926-1929
874 Ashington Mineworkers Minutes 1945-48
875 Northumberland Miners Strike Records 1984
876 Northumberland Miners Minutes 1903-5
877 Women’s Suffrage in the North East in Lisbeth Sim
878 Canon Charles Weston of Durham Cathedral 1731 – 1801
879 Activities on the North East, the Slavery Business and Abolition 2007-16
880 Sunderland’s Town Moor
881 Paul Robeson in the North East
882 Willian Falla Gateshead Gardening Business 1820s-30s
883 Newcastle Aborigines Protection Society Meeting August 1838
884 Students from the West Indies and North East England at St John”s College Cambridge 1767-1821
885 Daniel Liddell 1830s-1850s
886 Thomas Dixon 1831-1880
887 Cornsay Colliery Portrait of a Durham Mining Village
888 Teesside Railways
889 Public Health Activity in the North East 1925-6
890 Darlington Biographies
891 Ambrose Crowley/Crawley, Tyneside ironmaster
892 Anthony Morris Storer: Morpeth’s MP 1780-84 and the Storer family of Jamaica and Berkshire
893 John Collingwood Tarleton and the Collingwoods of Upthank
894 The Swymmers, the Bennet/Tankevilles and Jamaica
895 Ladies’ London Emancipation Society 1864-5
896 Ninian Home–An 18thC Berwickshire and Grenada Link
897 Biographical Sketches from Welford Vol1
898 North East Biography D-N
899 North East Biography O-Z
900 Biographical Material on Americans
901 Biographical Material on West Indians
902 Biography Miscellaneous
903 North East Methodism 1744-1798
904 Political Posters County Durham 1818-1880
905 South Shields Seamen’s Disturbances 1815-16
906 Riots in Northumberland 1831-2
907 Newcastle Free Methodism
908 Miscellaneous Notes 17th and 18thCs
909 Miscellaneous Notes 19th and 20thCs
910 Sunderland Miscellaneous Notes 1796-1839
911 Durham coal mining miscellaneous notes
912 Durham Colliery area photographs 1975
913 Miscellaneous Biographical Notes
914 The Angas Family
915 The Cooksons, Tyneside industrialists
916 The Featherstonehaughs of Haltwhistle, London and Essex
917 John Hodgson of Elswick 1806-1869
918 Edward and Francis printers and booksellers 1777-1850
919 Michael & Dawson Humble
920 Humbles and coal mining
921 The Humbles -Others
922 John George Lambton, Radical Jack
923 The Ogles
924 The Ordes of Morpeth
925 The Ordes of Weetwood
926 The Ordes Miscellaneous
927 W G Richardson & Co, heating engineers, Darlington
928 Cuthbert Sharp 1781-1849
929 Graffin Prankard 18thC coal iron and Carolina rice merchant
930 The Fly: a slave ship from Newcastle to Florida 1776
931 Caleb, Ralph and Robert Buglass, a Berwick and slavery connection
932 Nicholas Trought of Jamaica and John Graham-Clarke
933 Dr Henry Evans Holder III, Barbados and Durham Cathedral
934 Olaudah Equiano in Newcastle 1792
935 Dr Thomas Trotter, anti-slavery activist
936 Thomas Masterman Winterbottom, anti-slavery activist
937 Thomas Hendy of Barbados and an anti-slavery tract in Newcastle 1824
938 Rev. Valentine Ward, anti-slavery activist 1781-1835
939 Anti-slavery tracts published on Tyneside 1833-40
940 The Wallaces and Featherstone Castle
941 Thomas Wilson Newcastle Collection Vol IV 1832-1834
942 Thomas Wilson Newcastle Collection Vol X. 1843-1844
943 The American Negotiator – North East subscribers 1761-64
944 Land Nationalisation in the North East 1901/2 & 1911/12
945 Land Values League in North East 1913-14
946 Land Values League in North East 1915-1917
947 William Blakley, Durham Army Veteran – Chartism & Ireland
948 Mining Journal & Commercial Gazatteer 1835
949 Popular Politics in the Napoleonic Wars – Notes Relevant to the history of the North East 1798-1815. Part 1 Context
950 Popular Politics in the Napoleonic Wars – Notes Relevant to the history of the North East 1798-1815. Part 2 Loyalism
951 Popular Politics in the Napoleonic Wars – Notes Relevant to the history of the North East 1798-1815. Part 3 Religious Beliefs
952 Popular Politics in the Napoleonic Wars – Notes Relevant to the history of the North East 1798-1815. Part 4 Radicalism & Combination
953 Popular Politics in the Napoleonic Wars – Notes Relevant to the history of the North East 1798-1815. Part 5 Conclusions & Sources
954 L. Hindmarch on Abolition of Slavery 1833
955 Mining Journal & Gazetteer 1836 & 1839
956 Thomas Devalel, Seaton Harbour and the 1774 & 1780 Newcastle Elections
957 James Montgomery
958 Robert Morrison, the Meadows – North East Links with China
959 Alexander Kirkwood 1777-1850
960 –
961 Privy Council Inquiry into Slave Trade report 1789
962-7 These need to be re-examined as may be duplicates
968 Loveless Overton
969-979 Test entries
980 William Fifefield – A Different Drummer
981 Re-visiting County Durham’s Links to the Slavery Business and African Lives
982 : Walk in Durham Cathedral
983 : Walk in the Durham Baileys and
984 : Marquess of Londonderry Statue, Durham Market Place and Palace Green