When I joined Jarrow’s only secondary school as an English teacher in 2003, I determined to build on my limited knowledge of the town and its history. I knew, of course, the story of the Jarrow March, the 1936 organised protest against unemployment and poverty.
The backdrop to the...
On 15 August 1945, in a live broadcast to the nation less than a month after taking up his new role, Prime Minister Clement Atlee declared the end of World War 2 with the words “The last of our enemies is laid low.”
Seventy-five years later residents in Newcastle are...
Once upon a time, our politicians were forged in industrial furnaces out of iron and steel. Those from the working-class led tougher lives than most of us have even seen, and the aristocratic politicians could hardly be accused of taking the cushy route either. These were men raised to...
A piece of art, based around a key event in the 1984-5 Miners’ Strike, is to be exhibited in the north east.
The film The Battle of Orgreave (An Injury to One Is an Injury to All), by Turner Prize winner Jeremy Deller, will be showing at the Woodhorn Museum...
Stonehenge is one of Britain’s best-known and most mysterious monuments. But now Newcastle academics have come up with an interesting theory on how Stone-Age people could have constructed the landmark.
Archaeologists from Newcastle University are suggesting that pig fat may have played a vital role in erecting the ancient structure.
Academics...
The north east is set to see firing cannons, marching infantries, clashing weapons and incredible displays of horsemanship – as one of the region’s largest ever battle re-enactments takes place this August bank holiday weekend.
The re-enactment will be from the time of the English Civil War (1642-51), a conflict...
Rare and never before seen Anglo-Saxon objects from the British Museum and the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust collections return home to the North East
● A rare and elaborate glass beaker, shield boss and great square headed brooch will be highlights of a new visitor experience opening in February 2023
● As...
Newcastle is to celebrate the 100th anniversary of council housing first being provided in the city.
A programme of events will mark the centenary of the Housing and Planning Act of July 1919 – otherwise known as the Addison Act – which made housing a national obligation.
In November 1918, Liberal...
A historic and much-loved Newcastle cafe is set to re-open for the first time since the lockdowns.
Tyneside Coffee Rooms in Newcastle’s Tyneside Cinema, which has been shut since 20 March 2020, will open again on Wednesday 7 September 2022.
Tyneside Cinema Interim Chief Executive, Simon Drysdale, explains: “Tyneside Coffee Rooms...
Researchers from Newcastle University would like to speak to anyone who took part in the north east’s Save Our Shipyards campaign in the 1980s.
The 1983-4 campaign battled unsuccessfully to save the shipyards – and the jobs linked to them – on the rivers Tyne and Wear.
The researchers would especially...
