Joshua Alder
A historic Newcastle house that featured in the BBC TV Series A House Through Time has been issued with a commemorative plaque. The plaque –...
Titanic-99th-anniversary
An academic from Newcastle University has been helping to record the sad state of the wreck of the Titanic. The ship – which sits under...
mithras temple carrawburgh
A family have donated the remnants of a Roman fort – which lies on land they own along Hadrian’s Wall, Northumberland – to the...
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...
Riot police with shields during the miners' strike
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...
Remembering the forgotten heroes of World War 2
On 15 August 1945, in a live broadcast to the nation less than a month after taking up his new role, Prime Minister Clement...
stonehenge
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...
Musket
The north east is set to see firing cannons, marching infantries, clashing weapons and incredible displays of horsemanship – as one of the region’s...
Kenton Flats 1971
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...
Who Runs The World? - Queen Elizabeth I Triumphs In A Man's World
It’s almost 500 years since the birth of one of our most famous monarchs, Elizabeth 1. Former primary school teacher Laura Steele of education...