sitelogo.png
  • Home

  • Library

    • Map
    • Grid
  • Coals Archive

  • Features

  • Projects

    • Schools
  • More

    Use tab to navigate through the menu items.
    • All Posts
    • Podcasts
    • County Durham
    • Gateshead
    • Newcastle
    • North Tyneside
    • Northumberland
    • South Tyneside
    • Black History
    • Children's History
    • Women's History
    • Family History
    • Politics
    • Railways
    • Wartime
    • Maritime History
    • Romans
    • Mining History
    Women Making Memory: County Durham Women Making Sense of their Mining Heritage
    Anya Chuykov
    • Jan 28
    • 6 min

    Women Making Memory: County Durham Women Making Sense of their Mining Heritage

    It is true to say the history and our conversations about the North East's mining heritage and its legacy is built around the men that...
    The Newcastle Lying-in Hospital and its Hidden Maternal Histories
    Jessica Cox
    • Jun 19, 2021
    • 4 min

    The Newcastle Lying-in Hospital and its Hidden Maternal Histories

    Not far from Newcastle’s imposing Central Station, a narrow street named Rosemary Lane leads towards the Church of St. John. In the...
    The Shocking Tragedy of Choppington
    Heather Welford
    • Feb 6, 2021
    • 4 min

    The Shocking Tragedy of Choppington

    Heather Welford writes about the tragic tale of Charles, a young child from South East Northumberland who was killed in a saddening turn...
    Mother and Baby Homes - Sorting the 'Sinful from the Righteous'
    Katherine Waugh
    • Nov 6, 2020
    • 4 min

    Mother and Baby Homes - Sorting the 'Sinful from the Righteous'

    In 1891, the Salvation Army opened its first Mother and Baby home in London. In the decade that followed, almost 200 of these homes would...
    1
    2
    sitelogobl.png

    Mission Statement

    Contact

    ​

    Historic Ordnance Surveys provided by National Library of Scotland

    ​