Dan Jackson
@northumbriana
Sometime historical advisor to @CherylOfficial, Author of 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘕𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘴 and Trustee of @Beamish_Museum. Decades into an @NUFC life sentence.
Very pleased to say that I’ve signed up with @LittleBrownUK to write a new ‘people’s history’ of Newcastle United. Out at some point in 2026. Cheers! 🏁
Absolutely brilliant Dan @northumbriana More yards cut in the club than at the coal face 🤣🤣🤣
Some exquisite sinking of pints here back in 1971 as Reece Elliot from Birtley in Co. Durham - 52 years a pitman - sings the satirical miners' ballad 'The Celebrated Working Man'.
Just nipped into my local and there was a bloke at the end of the bar with this aura. Leather top hat (!), jacquard frock coat, chest length grey beard (which he was stroking theatrically), pint of Guinness, whisky chaser and rollie smoking paraphernalia laid out ready to go.
This is basically "Black Phillip" in human form. Apparently, Eggers based this off certain tropes in Elizabethan literature where the devil was presented as a Spanish conquistador or English cavalier type. It represented worldly pleasure, avarice, or aristocratic vice in the…
Could anyone hazard a guess what they’re drinking here at Newcastle Breweries in 1951? Could be Brown Ale but it’s not usually served in a pint glass like that. Exhibition maybe?
this is fantastic - and an interesting example of the NE 'floating supporter' as Ned McKenna supported Sunderland in the 1913 Cup Final at the Crystal Palace and then Newcastle at Wembley in 1951.
Nice story about the 7 Birtley Miners attending the 1951 FA Cup Final.
Happy Anniversary to the beautiful, kind, always multi-tasking and generally amazing @Jen86_north! Two years in and still smiling ❤️❤️🥂
Aston Villa Football Club is saddened to learn that world-renowned rockstar and Villan, Ozzy Osbourne has passed away. Growing up in Aston, not far from Villa Park, Ozzy always held a special connection to the club and the community he came from. The thoughts of everyone at…
I have been a Black Sabbath fan almost my entire life. And when I say Black Sabbath I mean the band with Ozzy Osbourne in it. Everything else was business. They were just immense. A thundering voice and noise direct from the working class.
The plumage on this would make it ideal for wearing to the match (9th Queen's Royal Lancers, officer’s czapka) 🏁 the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auction-…
Yes.
🚄 "If you could put in an Elizabeth line for the North, you could have a single market for 9 million people - the same kind of thing as London." Lord O'Neill's vision for a northern economic powerhouse. 👇
A week off to make progress on the NUFC book and I’m already finding the fierce urgency of clearing out the shed irresistible #getonwithit
