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Archive for July 2020

A message from the Wonderful Dyad Theatre Company!

By Mike Fraser | 30th July 2020 | Comments Off on A message from the Wonderful Dyad Theatre Company!

Dyad Theatre provided a highlight of our 2019 programme and we were looking forward to their return in 2020. Now we can only hope that they will be able to…

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Lady Sybil – a Northumbrian woman who witnessed War and Revolution in Russia

By Mike Fraser | 9th July 2020 | Comments Off on Lady Sybil – a Northumbrian woman who witnessed War and Revolution in Russia

Register for free for this event – Click here Simon Boyd, author of Lady Sybil: Empire, War and Revolution (Hayloft Publishing Ltd, 2017), writes about his remarkable grandmother Lady Sybil Middleton…

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Frederick Douglass – an American Slave whose freedom was purchased by Newcastle upon Tyne Quakers

By Mike Fraser | 6th July 2020 | Comments Off on Frederick Douglass – an American Slave whose freedom was purchased by Newcastle upon Tyne Quakers

Brian is speaking at our free online festival on 18th October 2020 at 2 PM. Register for free for this event – Click here Frederick Douglass was an American social reformer. abolitionist, orator,…

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