News from the Local Studies Library Dec 2008

Their Past Your Future 2:  Respecting the Past: Remembering South Tyneside Wartime Memories

• History Detectives – Local History Group for under 18s.  Contact Craig Luther for more information, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
• Creative Writing with Tess Hudson.  Find out more at our launch event on 15th January, 2.00 – 4.00 pm, when the Local Studies Road Show will be at Hebburn Library to explore maps and information to see where the bombs fell on South Tyneside in WW2, why, and consider who was affected.  Tess, from Pen and Tonic, www.penandtonic.org, will be running creative writing workshops in South Tyneside, exploring conflict and conflict resolution.

The WEA (Workers Educational Association) Family History Course

• Starts on 12th January, 9.45 – 11.45, with Theresa McLoughlin, drawing on resources in the Local Studies Library at South Shields, and internet access via the People’s Network.  Fees for the course start at £5, depending upon eligibility.  Contact 212 6100 or 0752 850 2826.

Centre for Lifelong Learning Courses in South Shields: the Universities of Sunderland and Newcastle working in partnership with South Tyneside Local Studies Library

• Researching and writing history, with Malcolm Grady, starts Thursday 15th January 2009, 10 meetings 18.00 – 20.00, Central Library, Prince Georg Square.  £72 I £57 I £33.00 I Course No: 20082855.  Contact the Centre for Lifelong Learning, 2nd Floor Bedson Building, King’s Road, Newcastle University Campus, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1; 0191 515 2800; This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ; http://cll.sunderland.ac.uk
• The Year of Trafalgar, with Max Adams, starts Tuesday 13th January, 10 meetings 19.00 – 21.00, Central Library, Prince Georg Square.  £72 I £57 I £33.00 I Course No: 20082845.  Contact the Centre for Lifelong Learning, 2nd Floor Bedson Building, King’s Road, Newcastle University Campus, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1; 0191 515 2800; This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ; http://cll.sunderland.ac.uk

Opening Cultural Doors

• There are volunteer projects providing opportunities to learn new skills and share

knowledge, while learning about the local heritage and the South Tyneside Heritage

Collection: the digitisation and care of local historic photographs, reminiscence and oral

histories, – contact Anne or Keith, 0191 424 7860 for more information about the Local

Studies Library, details of local history and heritage groups and projects (Can you knit?

Would you like to learn?); or Kathy or Jack at Culture Works, 0191 456 6903, to find out

about cultural volunteering opportunities.