Our volunteers have now gone back home to China, after working on newspaper articles within Newcastle City Library. They were going through the Evening Chronicle, for the period of Summer 1917. The general state of play with regards to the attitude and domestic radical changes during that period in China—-grand narrative type. Click on the link […]Read Post ›

   At the moment at the Great North Museum, The Extraordinary Gertrude Bell is a new exhibition drawn from the Gertrude Bell Archive at Newcastle University with significant loans from the British Museum, Imperial War Museum and others. Gertrude was a remarkable woman who changed the course of history in terms of what she did […]Read Post ›

   The group of ID on Tyne members have been working hard over the last few months to complete the suitcase that will be further used in our educational workshops. Working with Dawn Felicia Knox the suitcase was brought together using original creative writing, photographs, maps, altered books and collected history.        As you […]Read Post ›

  We haven’t got his photograph, Newcastle City Library has but you have to see him for yourself. James Jeffries served with the Tyneside Irish,  during the First World War, but was born in Bombay. Jo Vietzke and her colleagues at Durham Records Office have been doing some digging into James’s history to add more flesh […]Read Post ›

   The past few weeks has seen research within the archives held at the City Library, Tyne and Wear Museum Archives Services and a couple of visits to the Oriental Museum in Durham. We are complying dossiers for the individuals we find who were involved and in  the First World War in some way from […]Read Post ›

   once she was whole huge enough to wrap her arms around these city walls a porous guardian filtering out pain just her head remains traces of pink upon her cheek plump lips red poppies red ever present in the garden this long summer i gift them to you Goddess you knew your place and […]Read Post ›

We interrupted our summer break to attend a very special writing workshop at Arbeia, South Shields. Hidden amongst the terraces of Baring Street, the imposing West Gate stands, a reconstruction from Roman excavations found in 1870s but not fully explored until the buildings on top were removed in the 1979s. This fort and museum is […]Read Post ›

   As we find more and more new evidence of the contribution of Black, Asian and ethnic minorities within the First World War, we are using this information to create educational resources to be used in local schools. We have enjoyed a number of sessions, where we have been able to pilot a few exercises […]Read Post ›

     It has been a busy few months of creative writing workshops as we continue to work with our partners, TWMAS around their exhibitions in relation to the region’s involvement in World War 1. As these sessions are coming to an end, the final one due to run on 6 June at Sunderland Museum […]Read Post ›

When we held our second creative writing workshop from the series The Response, Caroline Kemp created this piece in response to a piece of art from OTTO Dix called The Skull.   Otto Dix’s skull – Caroline Kemp Otto Dix’s skulllooks almost humorous, youthful even,Sprouting a rich crop of grass,top knots.The mouth is in a wide […]Read Post ›