Thursday Talk – Lord Armstrong’s Jesmond Circle

James Losh, Thomas Sopwith, Armorer Donkin, Mary Jane Hancock, the Noble family, the Mitchell family, the Swans … 19th-century Jesmond was full of fascinating and influential characters. Linking them all was the towering figure of William Armstrong. His biographer Henrietta Heald will tell the rich and revealing story of ‘Lord Armstrong’s Jesmond Circle’