Discussion Forum

The THIRD lecture in the Popular Politics Lecture series

Title: Robert Tressell & The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
Location: Lit & Phil
Description: Dave Harker speaks on the first working class novelist Robert Tressell who died exactly 100 years ago leaving his classic work The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist. Dave is one of the experts on Tressell having researched him and the strange story of the book for more than thirty years.
Start Time: 7 pm
Date: Thursday 16 June

Please note that due to the Bank Holiday the April First Tuesday will be a week later on April 9th at the Irish Centre, Gallowgate.

7pm on Tuesday 5th March, upstairs at the Tyneside Irish Centre.

Godfrey Duffy explains:

“At Christmas 2011 I began reading a chapter in the book Durham Murders and Misdemeanours. On the page in front of me were not one ancestor but several, and all of them involved in a tragic affray at Low Bitchburn on the evening of 16th November 1874. This short chapter provided the basis for my research and I realised from the accounts in the local newspapers of the time that the story was far from complete. This was not just a drunken brawl among Irishmen, there was an important Fenian dimension to the story. It was a fascinating tale involving my ancestors that was never passed down, and it provides a rare glimpse into the period.”

Please note that due to the Bank Holiday the April First Tuesday will be a week later on April 9th.

Title: Irish Republicanism in County Durham?
Location: Irish Centre
Description:
Godfrey Duffy explains:

“At Christmas 2011 I began reading a chapter in the book Durham Murders and Misdemeanours. On the page in front of me were not one ancestor but several, and all of them involved in a tragic affray at Low Bitchburn on the evening of 16th November 1874. This short chapter provided the basis for my research and I realised from the accounts in the local newspapers of the time that the story was far from complete. This was not just a drunken brawl among Irishmen, there was an important Fenian dimension to the story. It was a fascinating tale involving my ancestors that was never passed down, and it provides a rare glimpse into the period”.

Please note that due to the Bank Holiday the April First Tuesday will be a week later on April 9th.

Start Time: 19.00
Date: 2013-03-05

Title: Tyne Story
Location: Lit & Phil
Description: Public Meeting with Michael Chaplin talking about his new book: Tyne Story
Start Time: 7.00 pm
Date: 2012-11-13

PPP Newsletter 8 has now been uploaded to this site. The contents are:

1. Editorial – The Politics of Culture
2. NEPPP & NELH events
3. Project News
4. Collecting Oral Histories
5. Short Notes (Local Parks and Work for the Unemployed
6. Charles Dickens in Sunderland
7. Football
8. Carlyle against Hudson
9. Industrial History of Newcastle and North East
10. Cleveland Iron Trade 1871
11. Reading
12. 1850s-1889s – some key dates
13. Researching Chartism in the Ouseburn

PPP Newsletter 7 has now been uploaded to this site. The contents are:

1. NEPP Events
2. How to proceed?
3. Notes from Project Members
4. Reading
5. The Visual Representation of NE Working Class Life 1802-1860
6. Property and Power in Early Victorian Gateshead
7. Rev Charles Weston
8. Daniel Liddell
9. Association of Cotton Weavers 1810-1820