The only elementary school that appears to have been opened by an English co-operative society in response to the 1870 Education Act could be found at Wallsend from May 1872 until August 1875.
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Newcastle was a breeding ground of Irish Home Rule politics during the second half of the nineteenth century.
Serious disturbances broke out at the election at South Shields. A crowd of thousands gathered outside the hotel the Conservative candidate, Mr H.B.
Francesca Mary Wilson was a schoolteacher and humanitarian who made a substantial contribution to British and international relief efforts, both through her practical work in the field and through
CWS had bought land on this site in 1890, then built and opened in 1899 a complex of warehouses, officers and meeting rooms which formed the nerve centre of the Newcastle Branch of the CWS’ operati
In the 1890s England was home to Russian émigrés of many political stripes.
The Clousden Hill Free Communist and Co-operative Colony was for a time an internationally famous anarchist-communist inspired 'land colony' enjoying strong links with local co-operative societies.
Dr Ethel Williams, Newcastle's first female doctor, radical suffragist and pacifist, moved to the city in 1896. Her initial home in Newcastle was on Ellison Place; she then lived
In the late 1890s CWS began to construct what would become one of its major industrial complexes in the country, at Pelaw in Gateshead.
‘Rudolf Abel’ (Willie Fisher), the Soviet spy exchanged for the American U2 pilot Gary Powers in 1962 (after having been in prison in the USA since 1957), was born at 140 Clara Street, Benwell, on