Lit & Phil, Westgate Road, Newcastle Monday 25th | 2-4pm | FREE | Books on Tyne | The History of Newcastle as a Literary City. Three short talks: Writing and Singing in a City: Newcastle in 17th century ballads, Angela McShane (V & A), Saint or Sinner? Thomas Saint of Newcastle upon Tyne, Printer, Publisher and Pirate, Nigel Tattersfield (Independent Scholar) The Collision of Mind with Mind: Book Clubs, Reading Societies, and the Early Development of the Lit & PhilJon Mee (York University) This event is chaired by Matthew Grenby, professor of 18th century studies in the School of English Literature at Newcastle University. Supported by Medieval and Early Modern Studies at Newcastle University 29 Nov, 6.30-7.30 Fighting on the Home Front: the legacy of women in World War One, Kate Adie, talk and book signing, £8 (concessions £6), Lit and Phil, Part of Books on Tyne Festival Please reserve your seat by calling (0191) 232 0192, emailing [email protected] or by calling in. Friends of Segedunum Roman Fort, Wallsend 30 Nov, 11.00, Northumbria - in Sickness and in Health, Prof Reg Hall, Segedunum Roman Fort, Friends of Segedunum, £2 to non-members [email protected] Bede’s World, Jarrow 30 Nov, 12 noon, The Irish and Northumbria in the 7th and 8th centuries, Dr Claire Stancliffe, University of Durham. Bede’s World. Admission included with standard museum ticket. www.bedesworld.co.uk/contact/ Bowes and Boldron, Co Durham 30 Nov Field Barn Recording. Training day, trainer Robert White, Bowes Village Hall. Free 1 Dec Field Barn Recording. Training at Boldron near Barnard Castle. Free Both days will run between 9.30am to 4pm. Previous experience is not needed but booking is essential as places are limited to 20 spaces on the Saturday and ten on the Sunday. Contact Honia Devlin on 03000-260830 or email [email protected] to book a place. Elvet Riverside, room 141, New Elvet, Durham University 3 Dec, 5.30, Lindisfarne, Northumbria and the Continent, ER 141, Elvet Riverside, Prof Jo Story, University of Leicester. Free Northumbria University First World War Lecture Series 6:00pm Northumbria University, Venue 002, City Campus East 13 November 2013 Emeritus Professor Martin Pugh, Newcastle University 'Women and the First World War: Emancipation or Domesticity?' 3 December 2013 John Lewis-Stempel, 'Six Weeks: The Life and Death of Junior Officers on the Western Front’ 21 January 2014 Emeritus Professor John Derry, Newcastle University ‘Hindenberg and Luddendorf: A Brilliant Parnership?’ 18 February 2014 Dr Edward Madigan, 'The Better Part of Valour: British Understandings of Courage during the First World War' 4 March 2014 Professor Gary Sheffield, University of Birmingham, ‘Douglas Haig, the First World War, and the British People’ 8 April 2014 Professor Andrew Lambert, King’s College London, ‘The War at Sea from the July Crisis to the eve of Jutland’ 13 May 2014 Professor Joanna Bourke, Birkbeck College London, "Sharp Shooting Pains that Make Me Shout Out": A History of Disability and the First World War Register in advance at: www.tynemouthworldwarone.org/lectures.html Mining Institute, Newcastle 5 Nov, 7.00pm, Colliers, Viewers, Engineers and the Making of the Modern World, Bill Lancaster, Mining Institute, Westgate Road. Free 3 Dec 7.00, Where Ever You Gan, Bill Lancaster, Mining Institute, Westgate Road. Free 12 Dec, 7.00, An Encounter with Sir George Cayley, (who defined the concept of the modern aeroplane). Jim Matthew and Ian Wormald, Mining Institute. Institute of Physics North East Branch 14 Jan, 7.00, Migrating Miners, Mining Institute, Westgate Road. Free www.mininginstitute.org.uk/ Appleby Archaeology Group All Talks held at the Public Hall in Appleby at 7.30pm Members free, visitors £2 8 October 2013 Cumbria to Cambria: Comparisons between Cumbria and Wales in the Pre-historic period, Jamie Quartermaine (Oxford Archaeology North) 12 November 2013 Mountains of Meaning: Biographies of Mountains in the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age, Peter Style, University of Central Lancashire 10 December 2013 Medieval pottery in Cumbria, Jeremy Bradley, Oxford Archaeology North 14 January 2014 AGM & Members evening. (TBC) 11 February 2014 The Discovering Derventio Project: Excavations at Papcastle 2012 – 2013, Mark Graham, Grampus Heritage & Training 11 March 2014 Prehistoric features on Fylingdales Moor, North Yorkshire – Moorland surveys and the parallels with Cumbria, Blaise Vyner 8 April 2014 The Silverdale and Furness Viking hoards and other recent finds from Lancashire and Cumbria, Dot Boughton (Lancs & Cumbria Portable Antiquities Scheme www.applebyarchaeology.org.uk Northumberland Archaeological Group Lectures at 7pm at the Black Swan, Newcastle Arts Centre, Westgate Road, Newcastle 8 January Lauren Proctor (Finds Liaison Officer) 12 February Fighting Farmers or Homeric Heroes? Warfare and Warriors in Late Bronze Age Britain, Ben Roberts 9 April Recent Excavations at Saxon Bamburgh, Graeme Young 14 May The Low Hauxley 2013 Excavations, Clive Waddington 11 June Recent Excavations at Bradford Kaims, Paul Gething [email protected] http://northumberlandarchaeologicalgroup.wordpress.com Border Archaeological Society All lectures 7.30pm Berwick Parish Centre, opposite Berwick Barracks VISITORS: £2.00 2 December Tom Dawson, "SCAPE" The Scottish Coastal Archaeology and the Problem of Erosion 3 February Dr Alison Sheridan, Green Treasures from the Magic Mountains: the amazing story of Nerolithic Jadeite axeheads 3 March Jeremy Paterson, The Circus comes to Town Roman Wild Beast Shows 7 April Catherine Kent, Mapping the Town: the topography of early-modern and medieval Berwick upon Tweed 12 May Dr Clive Waddington, Rescued from the Sea: Prehistoric discoveries at Low Hauxley 2 June Kristian Pedersen, BAS Summer Activities 1 September Dr Gordon Noble, Picts - Excavations at Rhynie, in Aberdeenshire 6 October Prof Clive Ruggles, Archaeoastronomy: a brief history 3 November Bruce Glendinning 1 December Dr Andrea Dolfini, The origins of metallurgy in Europe: new insights from Italy www.border-archaeological-society.co.uk Teeside Archaeological Society All lectures 7.30pm Stockton Central Library 26 Nov Paul Frodsham, Archaeology in the North Pennines AONB [email protected] North East War Memorials Project Talks 12 Nov 7pm St. Mary’s Heritage Centre, Gateshead 13 Feb 7.30pm Glendale Local History Society, Wooler 18 Feb 2pm Friendship Club, Chadca Community Centre, Chapel House, Newcastle 7 April 7.30pm Teesdale Record Society, Cotherstone Methodist Church 6 May 7.30pm Bedale History and Archaeology Group, Bedale Hall 8 September Brancepeth Archaeology and History Group 28 Nov 7.15pm Morpeth Antiquarian Society, St. James Hall http://www.newmp.org.uk County Durham History and Heritage Forum AGM County Hall, Durham 9.30am to 1pm 16 Nov What’s Going On Between Tyne and Tees? http://www.durhamweb.org.uk/historyforum/index.html .