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...
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...
A group of Newcastle University students have been attempting to recreate the metal smelting techniques used by our prehistoric ancestors.
The students have been working with Jarrow Hall Anglo-Saxon Farm in South Tyneside to try to understand how materials like copper were made in the distant past.
Their experiments have been...
Talks, films and poetry readings are among the events that will be held in Newcastle on and around Holocaust Memorial Day 2018.
Newcastle will also see visits from Holocaust survivors and their descendants, among them Judge Rinder from ITV’s Judge Rinder and the BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing.
The programme of events...
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...
