Tyneside Branch Programme 2026-27

For general questions about the Tyneside Branch, feel free to contact the Branch Chair Daniel Laqua Daniel.laqua@northumbria.ac.uk

 

Saturday 5 September 2026

The Grunitzkys: One African Family’s Journey through the Twentieth Century

Sara Pugach (Cal State University)

Newcastle City Library, 12:00 noon

The event is free, but please register via this link.

 

Thursday 17 September 2026

Schools Event for Sixth-Form Students

New Approaches to Soviet History

This event will be held at Northumbria University.

 

Wednesday 2 December 2026

The ‘People Left at Home’: Families of British Prisoners of War on Parole in Napoleonic France and Mauritius

Elodie Duché (York St John University)

Newcastle City Library, 5:30 pm

The event is free, but please register via this link.

 

Thursday 31 January 2027

Fighting for Hitler, Murdering for Hitler: The Waffen-SS and the Holocaust

Ben Shepherd (Glasgow Caledonian University)

Newcastle Lit & Phil, 6:00 pm

The event is free for HA members (£ 5 for non-members); please register via this link.

 

Thursday 4 March 2027

A Peaceable Kingdom? Militarism in Britain between the Wars

Rowan Thompson (Northumbria University)

Newcastle Lit & Phil, 6:00 pm

The event is free for HA members (£ 5 for non-members); please register via this link.

 

Monday 17 May 2027

‘Once Liquid with Pulped Men’s Bodies’: The Long History of Walking Battlefields, from the Middle Ages to Today

Sophie Ambler (Lancaster University)

Newcastle Lit & Phil, 6:00 pm

The event is free for HA members (£5 for non-members); please register via this link.