For fifty years the Newcastle Socialist Society in the Old Royal Arcade (which was demolished in 1969) provided a forum for socialists of all hues to debate issues. Attendees included such as T.
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1 May 1920
The Irish Self-Determination League was an organization for men and women of Irish descent living in England (and elsewhere) who wanted to support Irish independence.
25 October 1920
Terence MacSwiney, the Lord Mayor of Cork and a poet, was arrested in August 1920 in possession of police intelligence.
28 February 1921
During the Anglo-Irish War, units of the Irish Republican Army operated in England, conducting propaganda, fund-raising, gun-running, and sabotage campaigns.
28 February 1921
During the Anglo-Irish War, units of the Irish Republican Army operated in England, conducting propaganda, fund-raising, gun-running, and sabotage campaigns.
8 April 1921
During the Anglo-Irish War, units of the Irish Republican Army operated in England, conducting propaganda, fund-raising, gun-running, and sabotage campaigns.
14 June 1926 to 17 June 1926
The Co-operative Women’s Guild was established in 1883 (originally named the Women’s League for the Spread of Co-operation, it changed its name in 1885).
1 July 1926
On the 10 May 1926 a group of striking miners from Cramlington in Northumberland removed a section of railway a few miles north of Newcastle in order to stop any further movement of trains.
1 January 1932 to 31 December 1932
A co-operative society was established in Newcastle in 1860. The Newcastle Society first acquired property in Newgate Street in 1864.
3 September 1939 to 2 September 1945
John Morley and Jack Sadler, conscientious objectors from the First World War, were the main inspirers of the Newcastle War Resisters Group of conscientious objectors, with its motto, ‘The highest