By Thomas Bainbridge The figure of Horatio Nelson has perhaps cast the greatest shadow in all of English history. His leadership during a period of peril… Read More »The Geordie Admiral: Forgotten Hero of Trafalgar
By Thomas Bainbridge What might induce someone to leave their native homeland and travel thousands of miles across ocean and desert to a lawless and inhospitable… Read More »The Geordie Outlaw: Butch Cassidy’s Tyneside Roots
By Thomas Bainbridge Many well know the story of the Great Fire of London: Ignited in a baker’s oven in Pudding Lane, the blaze spread across… Read More »When Newcastle and Gateshead Burned: The Great Fire of 1854
By Thomas Bainbridge Newcastle is naturally wedded in the mind with coal. This connection would have been even stronger in the eighteenth century due to the… Read More »Coals to Newcastle: When a Fool’s Errand turned to Riches
By Thomas Bainbridge The burgeoning reputation of Newcastle upon Tyne as an epicentre of English industry and trade with a growing ‘proletarian’ population made it an… Read More »Newcastle’s Forgotten Revolutionary: Jean-Paul Marat
By Thomas Bainbridge The ‘Bishops’ Wars’ of 1639 and 1640 were fought over the divergences of religious policy between Charles I and his Scottish subjects. The… Read More »Battle of Newburn: The Scots Invade Northumberland and Occupy Newcastle
By Thomas Bainbridge The capture of Charles I in 1646 portended the end of the First English Civil War. After having fled from the Royalist… Read More »Charles I’s Time in Newcastle Under House Arrest
The Town Under Puritan Tyranny in the 1650s By Thomas Bainbridge With the conclusion of the English Civil War in 1648, the Parliamentarian forces led… Read More »The Madness of the Newcastle Witch Trials
By Thomas Bainbridge The Tyne and Wear Derby is the most fiercely contested rivalry in English football. The two cities, thirteen miles apart, harbour a bitter animosity. But… Read More »The Origin of the Newcastle-Sunderland Rivalry
