Newcastle has never been short of outside observers willing to pass judgement on its people. From bewildered antiquaries struggling with the dialect to a Russian novelist convinced that Jesmond's Sunday respectability was a kind of tyranny, visitors across four centuries have arrived with opinions and left, more often than not, quietly converted. In this essay, Sue Hope gathers their testimony - Wesley, Dickens, Zamyatin to name a few, to ask what the world has made of Tynesi

Good morning! You'll have seen all over here and on social media that we've built a walking & cycling route builder which integrates our full library alongside Historic England listings for you to encounter on your walk/cycle. I'm delighted to tell you the full v1.0 release is available now. What is the Heritage Route Builder? The Heritage Route Builder is an interactive tool that lets you plan a walking route through the North East and automatically discover the historic sit

In its many histories, the Durham coalfield is a manly place. For two centuries, the coalfield was written about as if women were scarcely present. Yet, women played a crucial role in what Marxists call the “reproduction of labour power”. Caring for mining households was arduous labour. This work was never counted in the official statistics of economic output, productivity, and trade, but women’s work was critical to these indices.

Peter Laurence is an archaeologist exploring the hidden history and archaeology of the North East.