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By our very own @martinjohnfarr theconversation.com/norman-tebbit-…
Call for papers: MAKING MARGARET THATCHER Conference on Thatcher and representation to mark the centenary of her birth. Deadline for submissions: Friday 27 June 2025 Conference date: Thursday 18 September 2025 (Newcastle University) CFP here: thatchernet.org/conferences/co…
By our very own @martinjohnfarr theconversation.com/reforms-threat…
Challenges for British Foreign Policy in 2025 Martin Farr Thursday April 10, 7.30 pm Teesside Skeptics in the pub Chapel, 16 Whitehouse Street, Middlesbrough, TS5 4BY @martinjohnfarr facebook.com/events/s/metha…
Why aid budget cuts are an existential matter for Labour. In @ConversationUK, our colleague Dr @martinjohnfarr discusses: What are Labour governments for? following a recent announcement to cut aid budgets. See here for more bit.ly/3RbeBbO @historyNCL
By our own @martinjohnfarr theconversation.com/how-should-kei…
Congratulations to Prof Daniel Siemens 👏who, on the publication of the American edition of his latest book, received this well deserved review ‘a remarkable researcher who brings important gifts of imagination and archival persistence to his work’. 👇 uwpress.wisc.edu/books/6164.htm
The next History Society Pub Lecture, by our very own @martinjohnfarr
Mandelson goes to Washington – or does he? theconversation.com/mandelson-goes… By our own @martinjohnfarr #mandelson #ambassador #trump #starmer
Don't miss tomorrow evening's lecture @UniofNewcastle 'Sounding the Angel' by Professor Anne Whitehead and David de la Haye @EngageNCL @the_Crack @narc_magazine @altweet_pet @NewcastleNE1 @HattonGallery @TWAMmuseums @LaingArtGallery @balticgateshead
Really nice to see the work of our Historians and colleagues in @ArchaeologyNCL represented in this leaflet about ongoing work in partnership with the @nationaltrust ncl.ac.uk/mediav8/busine…
From our very own @martinjohnfarr: What next for the special relationship? What Keir Starmer needs to navigate in a second Trump term theconversation.com/what-next-for-… via @ConversationUK
The Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, in her office as she prepares the Budget, with a photograph of Ellen Wilkinson behind her. Want to know more about Wilkinson and her ideas? Then check out our very @MattPerrLabHist biography of 'Red Ellen'.
Featuring our very own @martinjohnfarr
Thatcher, Blair and a brief history of class in British politics – podcast bit.ly/4h1owwt
Chaired by our very own @martinjohnfarr @InsightsNCL @PeterKellner1
Tickets now available for @InsightsNCL's first Autumn Public Lecture. Listen to @PeterKellner1 discuss the 2024 British General Election, in conversation with @historyNCL's @martinjohnfarr. Free but booking required>>bit.ly/47lkdrk
Congratulations @TisdallLaura 👏👏👏 Read more about the award and Laura's work here: ncl.ac.uk/hca/news/news-…
So excited to have won a @NewWritingNorth Northern Writers' Award for my novel-in-progress and to have been to the fabulous ceremony last night! It was great to meet my fellow awardees and the other guests and I'm so looking forward to the year ahead. #NorthernWritersAwards
In a special From Newcastle podcast episode ahead of the UK General Election on 4th July 2024, we talk to Dr @martinjohnfarr, our Senior Lecturer in Contemporary British History, about the election. Listen in full here: bit.ly/3ROGaIK #WeAreNCL #UKGeneralElection
Big questions about the general election? We’ve got answers. Tune in to our upcoming episode to hear historian @martinjohnfarr discuss the key issues and what’s at stake for the North East Listen from Mon 1 July @UniofNewcastle @EngageNCL #UKElection2024 #FromNCL