2024 programme

Monthly lectures start at 6.00 in the Lecture Theatre, The Common Room (formerly The Mining Institute), Westgate Road, Newcastle NE1 1SE (but please note different venue for April and October meetings). Zoom links will be circulated to members viewing from home.

• 24 April, Ken Smith, North-East Miners' Banners, NB: this lecture will be in lecture room 2, Herschel Building, Newcastle University. It is also our Annual General Meeting. Follow these links for he agenda and the accounts for 2023. (The accounts appear as ‘unaudited’, not because there is anything unofficial about them, but because we have moved to having an independent examination rather than an audit).
• 29 May, 6.00, Colm O'Brien, The Northumberland Landholdings of the House of Cospatric
• 26 June, 6.00,Sarah Semple and Roger Miket, New Discoveries at Yeavering, Northumberland
• 31 July, 6.00, Clare Howard and Jules Brown, Bishop Auckland: The Growth of an Historic Market Town
• 28 August, Jessica Cox, Pregnancy and Childbirth in Nineteenth-Century Tyneside
• 21 Sept, 10.30, African Lives in the North East, walk in the City Centre exploring the lives of people of colour who have lived in our area over the centuries. £10, closing date for bookings 4 Sept (the walk will only go ahead if there are enough participants to make it self-sustaining, and if it has to be cancelled all money will be returned promptly).
• 25 September, Christina Cowart-Smith, Lindisfarne and Archaeological Approaches to Britain's High Crosses
• 30 October, Ian Haynes & Tony Wilmott, Birdoswald Roman Fort Project 2021-2024, NB: This is our annual Public Lecture in the Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
• 27 November, 6.00, Fraser Hunter, Aspects of Roman Scotland

There will also be summer walks and outings, and a Summer Social, details to be announced

Events that have already happened

• 6 Jan 2024, Winter Walk in central Newcastle, African Lives in the North East. A two hour urban walk exploring the lives of people of colour who have lived in our area over the centuries.
• 31 January, 6.00, Anniversary meeting, Dan Jackson, Understanding the Northumbrians: Cultural Archaeology and the Longue Durée in the History of North East England. Follow this link for the YouTube recording
• 28 February, 6.00, David Jones and Richard Carlton, The Late Medieval Settlement of Linbrig. Follow this link for the YouTube recording.
• 27 March, 6.00, Beverley Prevatt Goldstein, Discovering African Lives in North East England. Follow this link for the YouTube recording.