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Researchers to unlock historical disability arts archive
A lost art archive will be unlocked to help show how disability was interpreted in the past as part of a £440,000 international collaborative project led by a Teesside University academic and artist and a German researcher. MIMA School of Art & Design Professor Simon McKeown, an award-winning internationally exhibiting...
Holocaust Memorial Day - One Day to Remember, to Learn and to Hope
Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) on 27 January, the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, is One Day when people everywhere are encouraged to remember the millions of lives lost in the Holocaust and the genocides that followed. One Day to learn from the lessons of the past and One Day...
Tribute to Armed Forces and Veterans As We Remember and Reflect
Seventy-five years after the end of World War 2, residents and businesses are being urged to get involved in a four-day tribute to our Armed Forces and Veterans that will begin on Remembrance Sunday and continue until Armistice Day.  Every year people from across Newcastle come together on Remembrance Sunday...
Holocaust Memorial Day: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Stories
Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) takes place every year on January 27, the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War 2. It is a day to remember the millions who died in the Holocaust and genocides in places such as Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur. Ordinary...
North East's Past Preserved: The Cullercoats Watch House Restoration Campaign
A community campaign to rescue a building, which played a vital part in saving lives at sea, has won the support of a leading North East heritage organisation. Built-in 1879, Cullercoats Watch House was originally a lookout for the local fishing community and a base for the Life Brigade, which...

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