Public Lectures 2009/10

April 20, 2010: Steven Ellis (National University of Ireland, Galway), "War and peace in early Tudor Northumberland." 6.30pm

(ATTENTION! THIS LECTURE HAS BEEN MOVED TO MAY 11, 2010)

Past Events (2009)

November 11, 2009: Linda Polley (Teesside University), "Reading free for all: Middlesbrough's Carnegie Library." 6.30pm

December 9, 2009: David Heslop (County Archaeologist for Tyne and Wear), "Ford, fort and fortress – new light on the origins of Newcastle." 6.30pm

Twelfth International Conference
July 13-16, 2009: Durham Castle

"Regenerating our Town: National and International Perspectives of Urban Regeneration in Middlesbrough after 1945"
February 25, 2009: Dr Natasha Vall (University of Teesside), Dorman Museum, Middlesbrough, 6.00 pm.

Past Events (2008)

"Heinrich Matthaus Fischer (1871-1935) and North-East Bolshevism"
Thursday, December 11, 2008: Professor David Saunders (University of Newcastle), Mining Institute, Newcastle, 6.00 pm.

"From Düsseldorf to Durham: Wilhelm Levison and his Contemporaries"
Tuesday 16 December 2008: Dr Letha Böhringer, Elvet Riverside ER201, New Elvet, Durham City, 7.15 pm. (Admission FREE)

The Durham Thomas Harriot Seminar
Thursday, 18-20 December, 2008: St. John's College, Durham.

NEEHI Public Lectures - Past Events (2008)

Wednesday, November 19, 2008: Ian Stubbs (Dorman Museum), "Henry Bolckow (1806 -1878). Man of iron and prince of culture: a Victorian collector and his collection reassembled", Dorman Museum, Middlesbrough, 6.00 pm.

Tuesday, October 28, 2008: Dr Krista Kesselring (Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia), "The Northern Rebellion of 1569", Mining Institute, Newcastle, 6.00 pm.

September 20, 2008: Cleveland and Teesside Local History Society's 40 anniversary conference on "The silver thread: the river tees in history". For for further details, go to: http://www.ctlhs.org.uk/Conference.htm

March 19, 2008: Professor Emeritus Tony Goodman (University of Edinburgh), '"Angels of the North?" Clergymen, nuns and merchants in medieval Newcastle', Lit and Phil, Newcastle, 6.00 pm.

February 27, 2008: Dr Barry Doyle (University of Huddersfield), 'River of Metal: Iron and Steel Making along the Tees, 1840-1980', Dorman Museum, Middlesbrough, 6.00 pm.

NEEHI Public Lectures - Past Events (2005-07)

Professor David Rollason (Durham) 'Shaping the North-East's Past: Medieval Durham Historians', The Lit & Phil, 23 Westgate Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, 3 October 2007

Professor Tony Pollard (Teesside) 'Region, Locality and Identity: the place of the Tees valley in history', The Dorman Museum, Linthorpe Road, Middlesbrough, 7 November 2007

Dr Bill Lancaster (University of Northumbria), 'The Cloudberry Gatherers, Natural History and the Making of the North', The Lit and Phil, 5 December 2007

BRITISH ACADEMY RALEIGH LECTURE (24 Nov 2005): With the title 'Mutualities and Obligations: changing social relationships in early modern England', the Raleigh Lecture for 2005 was delivered by Professor Keith Wrightson, Professor of History at Yale University and Visiting Professor at the Centre for Northern Studies, Northumbria University. The venue the lecture hall of the Mining Institute; the hub of the lecture to challenge the concept of a sharp change from mutual obligations to individualism in the 17th century.

ISONOMY COLLOQUIUM (31 Oct - 1 Nov 2005): Isonomy is a method of surname analysis originally developed in biological anthropology to study historical genetics. The Centre's project is attempting to apply this technique to migration studies in order to questions which, by and large, cannot be answered directly from the census data e.g. the specific provenance of Irish migrants to the North-East, and residential and employment patterns of second- and later-generation Irish migrants.

HISTORY OF REGIONAL IDENTITIES IN NORTH-EAST ENGLAND (8 July 2005):

Mining Institute, Newcastle. Organised by NEEHI. The Annual Reporting Conference of the AHRC Research Centre brought together various research projects (currently nearing completion) on aspects of regional identity from the medieval period through to the modern day. An edited volume provisionally entitled The North-East of England in History: regional identities 1300-2000 is being prepared to draw all of their work together and present it in an accessible and lively way.

CANON GREENWELL CONFERENCE (16-17 April 2005): Organised by the Department of Archaeology at Durham University and the AHRC Centre for North-East England History A one-day conference to look at the life and work of the antiquary William Greenwell (1820 - 1918), a prominent antiquarian, archaeologist and historian. He lived at a time when the British past was coming under intensive scrutiny: Greenwell and his peers worked on subjects ranging from the tools of the Stone Age, the barrows of the Bronze Age, Ancient Greek coins, Anglo-Saxon sculpture, old manuscripts and medieval architecture.

THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF RELIGION - Durham University (15 April 2005): Religious history and social history have tended to become estranged in recent decades, even though practitioners in both disciplines are often working with similar source material. This colloquium was intended to bring together a group of academics whose work has seen them approach the core issues from a variety of angles.

More Past Events

• LECTURES IN COMMEMORATION OF THE TRANSLATION OF ST CUTHBERT: Durham Cathedral. Organised by Friends of Durham Cathedral / NEEHI Covering the Translation of the body of St Cuthbert 1104, St Cuthbert's shrine, the Durham Liber Vitae, the Lindisfarne gospels, and pilgrimage to the shrine of St Cuthbert. St Cuthbert's pectoral cross.
• REGIONS AND REGIONALISM IN HISTORY INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM (9-12 September 2004): University of Northumbria. Organised by AHRC Centre for North-East England History The conference centred around five main themes: Regions and Politics, Regions and Culture, Regions and Economy, Regions and Space, and Regions and People. Thirty-eight papers were delivered over the four days which aimed to set the foundations and extend the parmaeters for future regional research. The proceedings are to be published by Boydell & Brewer in two volumes.
• REGIONAL LOCAL HISTORY CONGRESS (26th March 2004): North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers, Newcastle and the Literary & Philosophical Society of Newcastle upon Tyne. Organised by NEEHI, in association with the above organisations. To promote local initiatives and project developments, and float the idea of a forum for regional research initiatives.
• THE INFLUENCE OF ROMANESQUE DURHAM ON MONASTERIES AND PARISH CHURCHES (12-14 September 2003): Organised by AHRC Centre for North-East England A three-day conference with field-trips to key sites in Durham, York and Selby. The conference explored the chronology, influences and uses of the Romanesque style in architecture and sculpture in Durham, North Yorkshire and the border region.
• SECOND HISTORIC HEXHAM LECTURE (29th April 2003): Hexham Middle School Organised by the Historic Hexham Trust and Hexham Local History Society in association with the AHRC Centre for North-East England History Dr Henry Summerson (Oxford): 'Order, Disorder and Criminal Activity in Medieval Northumberland'.
• CAPTAIN COOK: EXPLORATIONS AND REASSESSMENTS (11-14 Septemer 2002): Held at the University of Teesside. Investigating Cook's early training; his career in the Navy; his voyages in the Pacific and their impact on later modes of exploration. The proceedings were published as Captain Cook: Explorations and reassessments (edited Glyndwr Williams) by Boydell & Brewer in 2004. portrait of Captain Cook (National Maritime Museum).
• NORTH-EAST ENGLAND IN THE LATE MIDDLE AGES (28 June - 1 July 2002): The history of Durham stretches back 1000 years to a time when a party of monks chose this rocky outcrop enclosed by a great loop in the River Wear as a safe resting place for the remains of St. Cuthbert. The original wooden church they built became the beautiful Cathedral, and around it grew the town of old stone and winding streets. This international conference offered a rare opportunity to focus upon the structure, governance and relationships of the North-East during the later medieval centuries.
• THE CLOSE (COLLEGE) OF DURHAM AND OTHER CATHEDRALS: THE IMPACT OF THE REFORMATION (28 September 2002): One day conference in Durham's historic Prior's Hall within the College grounds. A rare opportunity to compare the use of monastic buildings of this time at Durham, Winchester, Canterbury and York. This one-day conference included a detailed study of the Close (College) at Durham with a guided tour of the peninsula, claustral area and College.
• TYNESIDE AND THE SEA (15 June 2002): Organised by The Medieval North East Seminar Group and The Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle in association with the Open University. A one-day conference providing new perspectives on the nature and structure of the quayside, facilities and use of the Tyne as a port. Talks included Tony Barrow on the development of Seaton Sluice, showing how the site flourished then declined, a theme pursued by Alan Williams who argued powerfully for concerted efforts to study the rapidly vanishing industrial archaeology of the quaysides.