The Beyond the Wetersn Front project includes a programme of volunteer activities with many opportunities for research and training. You do not need any special knowledge to become a volunteer as the project is intended to be a learning experience for everyone who is involved. If you already know a lot about the First World War, […]Read Post ›

Survivors – Siegfried Sassoon No doubt they’ll soon get well; the shock and strain Have caused their stammering, disconnected talk. Of course they’re ‘longing to go out again,’— These boys with old, scared faces, learning to walk. They’ll soon forget their haunted nights; their cowed Subjection to the ghosts of friends who died,— Their dreams […]Read Post ›

Beyond the Western Front has been lucky enough to secure Bob Beagrie and Andy Willoughby to run a series of three creative research workshops with our partner the Literary and Philosophical Society. The first workshop completed last month focused on the questions you ask when carrying out research. There are some questions that might never […]Read Post ›

Mentioned in an earlier post about the Home for Heroes exhibition which details the Yemeni community living and working in South Shields.Well not surprisingly, because of their numbers and length of settlement within the area, the Yemeni community’s involvement and contribution to the First World War is rich and an ongoing line of inquiry. A […]Read Post ›

The project’s second recruit – Louis Achoy (1896-1918) Born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, he was a 19 year old sailor recruited in Newcastle upon-Tyne by the Northumberland Fusiliers, 1st Tyneside Irish, in 6 November 1914. He must have come to England on a merchant ship. The North East was a major port […]Read Post ›

The project’s first recruit is Lionel Turpin ( 1896-1929) Mentioned in Stephen Bourne’s book, Black Poppies: Britain’s Black Community and the Great War, (2014), quoting from Jackie Turpin’s book while talking about his father, Lionel Turpin, Jack says: He felt British. He was descended from slaves taken from West Africa but English was his first […]Read Post ›

At the back end of 2014, identity on tyne, as a group, enjoyed a number of creative workshops with Dawn Felicia Knox, representing the Book Apothecary.     After floating a number of ideas, individuals were sent off to create a poem in response to ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’  by Wilfred Owen. Once these poems were […]Read Post ›

Things have been going well in terms of creative workshops; getting interested people into see and respond to the different exhibitions that Tyne and Wear Museums and Archives have rolled out in support of World War 1, Wor Life. Here we would like to share some of the creations. More can be read within the […]Read Post ›

We are getting ready for the second workshop in the creative writing series, The Response. Tomorrow will see Sheree lead a workshop at the Hatton Gallery in response to The Screaming Steel exhibition there. It is a full workshop with the capacity met a few weeks ago. There seems to be a demand for these […]Read Post ›

Friday 5th December will see the suitcase created by identity on tyne writers go public, as Dawn Felicia Knox will be running a Book Apothecary workshop at the City Library. After months of work, the suitcase created from poetry, words, images and objects brought together by identity on tyne writers in connection with the Black, […]Read Post ›