Shutterstock. 9 outubro 2018 Newcastle’s iconic Tyne Bridge: how it became a symbol of the city’s changing fortunes Laura O'Brien, Northumbria University, Newcastle e Hannah E. Martin, Northumbria University, Newcastle At 90 years old, the Tyne Bridge shows how a practical piece of infrastructure can become an integral part of a city’s culture and identity.
A photograph of Frederick Douglass, African American abolitionist, writer and statesman, taken in the 1870s. Shutterstock/By Everett Historical 21 fevereiro 2018 Frederick Douglass: the ex-slave and transatlantic celebrity who found freedom in Newcastle Brian Ward, Northumbria University, Newcastle It’s 200 years since the legendary African American abolitionist and ex-slave Frederick Douglass crossed the Atlantic and found freedom in northeast England.
Martin Luther King in Newcastle, 1967. Newcastle University Special Collections 20 outubro 2017 Why Martin Luther King’s trip to Tyneside still matters 50 years on Brian Ward, Northumbria University, Newcastle Black British history is too often overlooked, and its connections to the US even more so.
‘My fellow disenfranchised Americans …’ EPA 12 janeiro 2017 New index of economic marginalisation helps explain Trump, Brexit and alt.right Andrew Cumbers, University of Glasgow New measure of 32 countries’ economic balance places UK and US near bottom of the pile.