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Tastes of Honey: Shelagh Delaney and a Cultural Revolution, a talk by Selina Todd.

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Zamyatin in Jesmond

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Composer Duncan MacCleod talks to John Snijders

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Shores of Paradise: Sir John Squire, the Last Man of Letters

46:25

'As I Cam Thro Sandgate'

56:34

Ten Poems About History

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The History of Quakers in Newcastle, a talk by Margaret Bozic.

The Religious Society of Friends was established by George Fox in 1652. The movement spread very quickly and arrived in Tyneside only two years later. At first they were not welcome in Newcastle and so held their meetings in Gateshead. But by the end of the seventeenth century they were able to worship in Newcastle and built their first Meeting House on Pilgrim Street.
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Tastes of Honey: Shelagh Delaney and a Cultural Revolution, a talk by Selina Todd.

42:18

Tastes of Honey: Shelagh Delaney and a Cultural Revolution, a talk by Selina Todd.

Просмотров 37910 месяцев назад

In 1958, Shelagh Delaney, a working-class teenager from Salford, became famous when her debut play, A Taste of Honey, was staged in London. Focused on a single mother and her daughter, the play tackled taboo subjects like homosexuality and mixed race relationships. Against the contemptuous predictions of London’s critics, it became a boxoffice sellout. Audiences flocked to see - in the words of...

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Zamyatin in Jesmond

Просмотров 169Год назад

Yevgeny Zamyatin - revolutionary, engineer, satirist, and pioneering dystopian novelist - lived in Jesmond for a year from 1916 to 1917. Keith Jewitt summarises what we know about that year, and how it may have affected him as a writer and thinker. The Lit & Phil Library is Newcastle’s exquisite secret library, open to all and free to explore and browse. This is one of a growing series of free ...

Composer Duncan MacCleod talks to John Snijders

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Composer Duncan MacCleod talks to John Snijders

Просмотров 39Год назад

In this video, Duncan talks about the background to and the creation of his work The Metalization of a Dream. His practice utilises both acoustic and electronic forces with an output encompassing concert music, cross-arts collaboration (film, fine art and contemporary dance), computer music and electro-acoustic composition. Recent projects have included experimentation with spectator immersion ...

Shores of Paradise: Sir John Squire, the Last Man of Letters

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Shores of Paradise: Sir John Squire, the Last Man of Letters

Просмотров 1092 года назад

This talk will focus on literary feuds and arguments, the beginnings of modernism in England and Squire's hostility. Squire’s relationship with T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf and James Joyce will be discussed, as well as the setting up of the London Mercury and the founding of the Hawthornden prize. The Lit & Phil Library is Newcastle’s wonderful secret library, open to all and free to explore and ...

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'As I Cam Thro Sandgate'

Просмотров 5252 года назад

In this illustrated talk by Lit & Phil member and City Guide Pat Lowery, looks at the old Sandgate area of the Quayside with its memories of coal, keelmen, ballast hills, soap and glass, right up to the present day. As I came thro' Sandgate, Thro' Sandgate, thro' Sandgate, As I came thro' Sandgate, I heard a lassie sing: "O, weel may the keel row, The keel row, the keel row, O weel may the keel...

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Ten Poems About History

Просмотров 1502 года назад

A Candlestick Press Book Launch: Ten Poems about History edited by Sean O’Brien An evening of poetic time travel to celebrate the launch of Candlestick’s latest title. The poems take us from the everyday to the epic, via pitchfork rebellions, shipyards and family china. Prepare for a dizzying journey with readings by special guest poets. The Lit & Phil Library is Newcastle’s exquisite secret li...

Holocaust Memorial Day Lecture: Kristallnacht.

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Holocaust Memorial Day Lecture: Kristallnacht.

Просмотров 1532 года назад

A talk by Monica Stern. Born in Gateshead in 1955, Monica Stern is the daughter of Jewish parents both of whom were forced to flee Nazi Germany. Her grandparents came to this area in 1939 to re-establish the family manufacturing business on Team Valley Trading Estate. Her father was left with vivid memories of Nazi oppression, the Nuremberg Laws and Kristallnacht. Later in life he felt that it ...

Lithium-ion batteries, vapour cloud explosions and elephants

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Lithium-ion batteries, vapour cloud explosions and elephants

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Lithium-ion batteries are truly amazing devices (note!) that store very large amounts of energy in a very small space. They are perceived as essential for the decarbonisation of our planet. However, the rapid penetration of these batteries into our society has far outstripped our understanding of their risks and hazards. The talk will explore the latter as well as the codes and standards landsc...

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Percy Shelley's Poetry of Anticipation

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Ideas about utopia and the future are at the heart of many of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s greatest works. But Shelley described the act of anticipating a future ‘period of regeneration and happiness’ as a ‘hazardous exercise’. This talk by Dr Jonathan Quayle, Lecturer in Romantic Literature, Newcastle University will explore how Shelley takes on this challenge in his poetry and how he understands th...

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Bringing Dante to Life

Просмотров 752 года назад

From Botticello to Blake, from Doré to Dalì, over the last seven hundred years there have been many artists who have taken Dante's works as their inspiration. In this talk Keith Jewitt gives a brief survey of some of Dante's illustrators who have responded to his very concrete and graphic imagery. The Lit & Phil Library is Newcastle’s exquisite secret library, open to all and free to explore an...

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Comfortable Home Life during WWII

Просмотров 1583 года назад

In this talk Lit & Phil member Margaret Bozic will describe home life in a northern market town based on her Grandmother’s diaries. It will include a description of the blackout, the town’s reception of wartime evacuees, food rationing and local entertainment. Margaret’s aim is to provide an interesting and detailed snapshot of a relatively sparsely chronicled aspect of wartime social history. ...

The Hobbits of Flores or...How J. R. R. Tolkien Is Helping Us Reimagine Human Evolution

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The Hobbits of Flores or...How J. R. R. Tolkien Is Helping Us Reimagine Human Evolution

Просмотров 1593 года назад

When Australian archaeologist Mike Morwood discovered a new species of extinct human on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2003, he started to refer to it as the ‘hobbit’ because it was ‘a little person who lived in a cosy hole in the ground on an isolated Middle Earth island’. Since the discovery of the Hobbits of Flores, we have learned more and more about human evolution. Several new species...

Agatha Christie: a Zest for Life. A talk by Ian McArdle

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Agatha Christie: a Zest for Life. A talk by Ian McArdle

Просмотров 2303 года назад

Agatha Christie enjoyed a full and successful life but it was not without its periods of despair and bitter disappointment. This talk will examine some of the challenges that she met with courage and humour and which led to her becoming the most widely read detective writer of all time. The Lit & Phil Library is Newcastle’s exquisite secret library, open to all and free to explore and browse. T...

Truth and Trust in Medical Publication: The Role of Editors and Whistleblowers

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Truth and Trust in Medical Publication: The Role of Editors and Whistleblowers

Просмотров 553 года назад

In this talk Professor Margaret Rees will discuss the MMR 1998 Lancet paper retracted for data fabrication and falsification in 2010, which has led to general vaccine hesitancy and preventable deaths. She will also consider high profile retractions in 2020 with regard to Covid-19. The publication process will be discussed, for example, what editors screen for before peer review, as well as the ...