Past events
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The General Strike in the North East, 1926
Joe Redmayne
Lecture Room 2, Herschel Building, Newcastle UniversityDuring nine days, between 4 and 12 May 1926, 1.5 to 2 million workers challenged the established order as they responded to a call by the Trade Union Congress to strike in support of ‘locked-out’ miners...
Roman Army Museum and Magna Fort Guided Visit
Marta Alberti-Dunn, Deputy Director of Excavations
Roman Army Museum, Greenhead, Brampton, CA8 7JB
'Inside the Trenches' tour of the ongoing excavations at Magna Fort, with talk on the impact of climate change on the buried archaeology, and time to visit the Museum.
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Excavations at Marshall Meadows, Berwick-upon-Tweed
Matt Hobson
Lecture Room 2, Herschel Building, Newcastle UniversityRecent excavations at Marshall Meadows, Berwick-upon-Tweed, have changed our understanding of settlement in the region during the Late Iron Age and Romano-British periods.
Tours of Redhills Durham
Redhills, Flass Street, Durham DH1 4BE
A visit to Redhills, the historic headquarters of the Durham Miners Association, jointly with the Northen Architectural History Society. There will be a choice of two guided tours, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Refreshments will be available after the tours.
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The late-Roman fort at South Shields and its early-medieval afterlife: the results of a 40-year project
Nick Hodgson
Lecture Room 2, Herschel Building, Newcastle UniversityBetween 1983 and 2007 an eighth of the interior of South Shields Roman Fort (Arbeia), was excavated, revealing a complete sequence of prehistoric, Roman, and post-Roman activity.
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[AGM] Travelling Britannia: a materialist and experiential perspective
James Gerrard
Lecture Room 3, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
This was also our Annual General Meeting. The formal meeting notice is available in the Members' Section.
Metro Art Tour 29 March
Don O'Meara
Starting from entrance to Regent Centre Metro Station
A tour of some highlights of the Metro system's outdoor public art
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If prehistory is defined by stones, why do we know so little about them? The influence of geology on prehistory in the north of England
Ian Jackson
Room G.05, Percy Building, Newcastle University
Lecture by Ian Jackson, followed by a book signing.
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Anglo-Scottish Spiritual and Material Economies in the 1649-50 Newcastle Witch Hunt
Lecture Room 2, Herschel Building, Newcastle UniversityIn 1649, at the behest of petitioners, a Scottish witchfinder was commissioned by Newcastle upon Tyne’s councilmen to search the town’s suspects for devil’s marks.
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The Spy in a Berwick Garden
Lindsay Allason-Jones
Lecture Room 2, Herschel Building, Newcastle UniversityBook signing afterwards, for Lindsay Allason-Jones' book of the same name.