Byker is a monument of community-driven design - still influencing and still standing as a listed landmark. Sally Watson & Silvie Fisch...

As a follow up to his excellent Draughts piece, Peter explores another forgotten working class sport. One where pitmen hurled whinstone...

Blackett Charlton's were a Geordie firm through and through, which you might expect given two surnames laden with Northumbrian heritage. Charlie MacCallam comprehensively tells the story of this once dominant engineers from its beginning, on the side streets of Newcastle, through its peaks to its recent twilight years. R. Blackett Charlton & Co were a Newcastle company founded by a young engineer, Robert Blackett Charlton in 1860. This engineering enterprise started at the he

by Miriam A Bibby 2024 is the bicentenary of the birth of Samuel Plimsoll, and I recently wrote an article about him for Historic UK’s...