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 October meeting). Zoom links will be circulated to members viewing from home.

• 18 Oct, 6.00-8.00, North East Research Showcase, at Tyneside Cinema, Pilgrim Street, Newcastle. Free, but limited numbers – bookings now open. The event is free, and members and non-members are all welcome. Follow this link to book via Eventbrite, or click here to see the flyer with details of the speakers. If anyone would like to volunteer an additional paper, please send 150-200 word abstracts to Daniel Riddell.
• 30 October, 6.00, Tony Wilmott and Ian Haynes, The extramural settlements and bathhouse at Birdoswald – excavations 2021-24.  NB, this is our annual Public Lecture, and so is in the Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University. Details are in the University's Insights programme. As with all their lectures, it will require pre-booking, and bookings will open on 23 October.
• 27 November, 6.00, Fraser Hunter, Silver stories: the Traprain Law treasure and the roles of silver around the late Roman frontiers.
• 1 Feb 2025, 9.30-1.00, Postgraduate Research Conference, Keeton-Lomas Lecture Theatre, Room G.09, Armstrong Building, Newcastle University. All welcome, free, must book by Eventbrite. (this is the conference postponed from 7 September 2024)

 

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, 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, David Jones and Richard Carlton, The Late Medieval Settlement of Linbrig. Follow this link for the YouTube recording.
• 27 March, Beverley Prevatt Goldstein, Discovering African Lives in North East England. Follow this link for the YouTube recording.
• 24 April, Ken Smith, North-East Miners' Banners. It was also our Annual General Meeting. Follow these links for the 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). At the speaker's request, the YouTube recording is available only to members, in that section.
• 29 May, Colm O'Brien, The Northumberland Landholdings of the House of Cospatric. Follow this link for the YouTube recording.
• 9 June, day trip to Croxdale Hall and Brancepeth Castle.
• 26 June, Sarah Semple and Roger Miket, New Discoveries at Yeavering, Northumberland. Follow this link for the YouTube recording.
• 2 July, visit to Birdoswald excavations.
• 2 July,  Industrial Scotswood, Walk led by John Taberham.
• 19 July, Summer Social at the Tyneside Irish Centre. Tour of the building, talk on The Irish on Tyneside, and a chance to drink (legal) poteen in a hidden 'shebeen'.
• 20 July, walk round the western side of Durham City with John Griffiths.
• 31 July, Clare Howard and Jules Brown, Bishop Auckland: The Growth of an Historic Market Town. The YouTube recording of this is available in our Members' Section.
• 28 August, Jessica Cox, Pregnancy and Childbirth in Nineteenth-Century Tyneside.  Follow this link for the YouTube recording of this.
• 21 Sept, 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.
• 25 September, Christina Cowart-Smith, Lindisfarne and Archaeological Approaches to Britain's High Crosses. Follow this link for the YouTube recording of this.