Tyneside Branch Programme 2025-26

For general questions about the Tyneside Branch, feel free to contact the Branch Chair, Daniel Laqua Daniel.laqua@northumbria.ac.uk

 

 

Wednesday 28 January 2026

6 pm at Newcastle Lit & Phil, 23 Westgate Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 1SE

Playing Like a Girl: A History of Women's Football

Fiona Skillen (Glasgow Caledonian University)

The event is free, but please register via this link.

 

Thursday 12 March 2026

5:30 pm at Newcastle City Library, 33 New Bridge Street West, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 8AX

Dictatorships in German History: New Perspectives on an Old Problem

André Keil (Liverpool John Moores University)

The event is free, but please register via this link.

 

Saturday 14 March 2026

10 am to 1 pm at Discovery Museum Newcastle, Blandford Square, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 4JA

Workshop for History Teachers

Teaching Migration through a Local History Lens: Opportunities for KS3 History and Beyond

The lead organiser for this event is branch committee member Shabana Marshall (shabana.marshall@stmarys.ac.uk).

 

Tuesday 31 March 2026

6 pm at Newcastle Lit & Phil, 23 Westgate Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 1SE

Henry VIII, Spying and Northumberland

Neil Murphy (Northumbria University)

The event is free, but please register via this link.

 

Thursday 23 April 2026

6 pm at Newcastle Lit & Phil, 23 Westgate Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 1SE

British Activist Intellectuals and the Cold War during the Radical 1950s

Sophie Scott-Brown (University of St Andrews)

The event is free, but please register via this link.

 

Thursday 4 June 2026

Schools Event for Sixth-Form Students

New Approaches to Soviet History

For details on this event, which will take place at Northumbria University, please contact our branch committee members Elizabeth Brydon (King’s Priory School, Tynemouth, Elizabeth.Brydon@kps.woodard.co.uk) and Abby Potts (Longbenton School,  alp@longbenton.org.uk).