First Tuesday Discussion Group Gateshead

Monthly Discussion Meetings

Tuesday 6th June - Margaret Hedley will lead off on 'Life in a 19th Century Durham Mining Community'

This was simply one of the best presented talks we have ever had. Margaret concentrated on the role and experience of women in the east Durham mining communities of Wheatley Hill and Thornley. Her enquiry started as a piece of family history but it has broadened into a full length study. The depth of the study is quite unusual in working class family history. Margaret has told some of the story in the forthcoming volume of North East History 37. If you have not reserved a copy (which incudes NELHS membership) do so right away!

then on Tuesday July 4th - Katy Shaw will lead off on 'Women and the Miners Strike of 1984-5' from a literary, social & political standpoint

Both Meetings in Gateshead Civic Centre, check board in foyer for room