Discussion Forum

The THIRD lecture in the Popular Politics Lecture series

Title: Robert Tressell & The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
Location: Lit & Phil
Description: Dave Harker speaks on the first working class novelist Robert Tressell who died exactly 100 years ago leaving his classic work The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist. Dave is one of the experts on Tressell having researched him and the strange story of the book for more than thirty years.
Start Time: 7 pm
Date: Thursday 16 June

PPP Newsletter 5 has now been uploaded to this site. The contents are:

1. Diary
2. Editorial
3. Why the Project is Important
4. Oral History Update
5. Topic Themes
6. News
7. Tyneside in the Age of Revolution
8. Radical Politics of the Left
9. Have you read Lisbeth Simm?
10. The Fight for Women’s Rights in the North East 1896-1914
11. Police Spies
12. The Church and Politics
13. Pit Disasters
14. Youth and Community Work History,
15. Newish Books of Interest.

Christmas Newsletter Supplement a

Please open this pdf.

PPP Newsletter 1 is now online

Contents

1. Project Events; Project Up and Running
2. Popular Politics Material; Introducing the Project Co-ordinators
3. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
4. Ushaw College to Close
5. Call Mr Robeson
6. Paul Robeson in the North East
7. The 1826 General Election
8. Researching Poor Law
9. Researching 1830s Northumberland Riots
10. Radical Songs – Part 1

PPP Newsletter 2 is now online

Contents

1. Editorial: project steams up
2. Project lecture – Thomas Spence
3. Project Archive Research Sessions
4. Request for help
5. The value of secondary books, articles and specialist newspapers
6. The Pitmen of the Tyne and Wear
7. Anglican dispute over church rates
8. Riots in the North East 1830-32
9. Religion and Politics
10. The Use of Petitions in Political Activity
11. Petitions to Newcastle Common Council
12. Radical Songs – part 2

PPP Newsletter 3 is now online.

Contents

1. Project Oral History SessionsProject Archive Sessions
2. Other Project and Other Events Diary
3. Project News
4. Early 19thC Elections
5. The Tom Marshall Collection
6. Miscellaneous Notes from Books
7. Reading
8. Finds in the Archives
9. The Hexham Insurrection 1761
10. The Trial of Alexander Whyte, 1793
11. Our Kingdom Comes Tomorrow: The Plebs League and Working Class Education in the North East 1909/1940
12. Oral History: Joan Lamb, Newcastle
13. Controlling Popular Politics, Dissent and Riot
14. The 18th Century Electorate
15. Short Notes: The Simplified Spelling Society, George Rule, Sport as Popular Culture, Durham MPs Project
16. Radical Songs – Part 3
17. TUC Library