Speakers

• All aspects of the Great War 1914-18. Including how to research names on a war memorial and those who survived. Presentations tailored to specific groups from Key Stage 1 to adults. In particlular: Seaham & the Great War, Mining, VAD Hospitals, Battle of the Somme, the role of women in the Great War, memorabilia, local regiments and Pals battalions.
• Audio visual presentations, lectures and seminars and guided workshops.

• Weardale Railway and The Heritage Line, slide show and talk
• Branch line between Darlington and Wearhead in Weardale and associated attractions

• Early Banking in North East England 1755-1839
• The Backhouses of Darlington - Quaker Bankers
• The Hetton Coal Company 1820-1836
• John Cookson 1712-83 : glass, iron and banking
• Charles Attwood 1791-1875 : industrialist and inventor
• Aspects of the history of Spennymoor
• Aspects of the history of Chester le Street, 16th to 18th centuries
• Old Park to Rome 1775/6: a digital grand tour
• Medomsley to Malabar : The career of General Sir Martin Hunter(1757-1846)

• Numismatics
• Archaeology
• Chinese Art

• 17th Century Newcastle
• The History of Medicine in Newcastle
• North Eastern Witchcraft
• Medieval Ghosts

• Mary Queen of Scots, the captive queen
• The Wizard Earl of Northumberland (1564 to 1632)

• History of Witton Park, digital presentation and slides

• Regional/folk costumes from 1850s - 1960s

• Durham City
• 19th Century Censuses
• Local History Sources
• Guided walks

• Mining and the Durham Coal Fields

• Activities of the Record Office, How to use the facilities

• Talks and visits re. Library resources for local and family history, either in general or geared to specific places
• North East Inheritance Project (Durham Probate Records)
• Historic Maps of County Durham
• Durham University Records and their uses for local and family history

• Pleistocene to Medieval in Witton Gilbert Parish

• County Durham in the 17th Century - Family life, neighbourhood relationships, medical knowledge/practitioners
• Coal Mining in County Durham
• 20th Century Durham

• Women in the pit village

• Methodist history
• Child emigration to Canada

• Coal Mining, Collieries in the Shincliffe area

• English Parish Churches and their contents
• Grave thoughts: changing times in disposal of the dead from the Middle Ages to the present
• Light Blue: a History of Cambridge town and gown

• The Bradford Brothers/Roland Boys Bradford VC, MC
• DLI POW's in WW2
• Aspects of the history of the DLI Regiment in both World Wars

• History of Picture Postcards, followed by slide show of old postcards featuring area talk held.
• North East postcard photographers and some of their work (including a trip up the Northumberland coast in postcards)
• History of Pickfords Heavy Haulage, including heavy loads in North East (of particular interest to industrial heritage groups)
• My favourite golden era in postcards

• Durham City in Old Photographs

• Victorian women and their money
• Who ran the early railways?
• More to it than locomotives - early railway finance.
• 'Fat Cows and Railway Lines': the links between agricultural improvement and industrialisation in NE England.
• Pitmen, politics and primitive Methodism - the relationship between Primitive Methodism in mining communities and the rise of organised labour
• Henry Green & the Great Migration
• The Peases of Darlington - an entrepreneurial family
• Iron, Coal and Cinders - County Durham's coking industry
• Dads army Napoleonic War style. The role of the Volunteer regiments 1798-181
• What were the 'good old tunes' - a study in early hymnody

• The DLI in the Napoleonic Wars
• Book binding and book repairs

• History of Policing in the North East

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Last update: 30 January 2012