Jesmond Library

Police Drop-In
2026-01-09 10:30 - 11:30 (Europe/London) | Main Room

Music in the Library: Nauta
2026-01-09 13:00 - 14:00 | Main Room
A trio of Newcastle University music graduates, who sold out at Newcastle Jazz Festival as part of a larger five piece, slim down for the more intimate acoustic of Jesmond library.”

Keep Jesmond Clean Litterpick
2026-01-10 11:00 - 13:00 | Catherine Cookson Room

Italian Language Course for Children
2026-01-10 13:30 - 17:30 | Sid Chaplin room

Italian for Total Beginners
2026-01-12 18:15 - 20:15, 2026-03-02 18:15 - 20:15 | Sid Chaplin room

*group full* Current Affairs Discussion Group
2026-01-13 10:00 - 12:00 | Catherine Cookson Room

Keep Jesmond Clean meeting
2026-01-13 17:30 - 18:30 | Main Room

*fully booked* Italian for Total Beginners
2026-01-14 18:15 - 20:15 | Catherine Cookson Room

Private French conversation group
2026-01-15 10:00 - 12:00 | Catherine Cookson Room, Jesmond Library, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 2DL, United Kingdom

Thursday Talk - Slipping Through Time: Dark Flood
2026-01-15 18:00 - 19:00 | Main Room
Karon Alderman discusses her award-winning novel Dark Flood. After a short reading she will talk about the inspiration for the novel and how we re-tell the stories surrounding us and under our feet.

Healthwatch drop-in
2026-01-16 10:30 - 12:00 | Main Room

Events Meeting
2026-01-16 14:00 - 15:00 | Sid Chaplin room

Thursday Talk - the Wars of the Roses in Northumberland 1461-4
2026-01-22 18:00 - 19:00 | Main Room
Military historian John Sadler tells the gripping story of 1461-4, when the deposed King Henry VI moved to Bamburgh, and as a result the Wars of the Roses came to Northumberland. There were two important pitched battles at Hexham and Hedgeley Moor (near Alnwick). The climax was the siege of Bamburgh, the first time that siege guns were used against an English castle.

Trustees Meeting
2026-01-24 10:00 - 11:00 | Catherine Cookson Room

Thursday Talk - The Chronicles of a Time-Travelling Teacher
2026-01-29 18:00 - 19:00 | Main Room
Les Walton’s time-travelling odyssey explores teaching and learning in a 1960s school, challenging today’s highly centralised education system and asking “have we lost education’s human heart?”

Philosophy Group
2026-02-03 17:00 - 19:00 | Main Room

Thursday Talk - Understanding Cognition in Adults in the NE of England
2026-02-05 18:00 - 19:00 | Main Room
With researcher Abi Price.
Learn about a research study on memory and thinking in adults in the North East, and find out how you can take part to help improve local services.

Book group - Yevgeny Zamyatin - We
2026-02-11 19:00 - 20:00 | Main Room

Thursday Talk - Road Rail and River - the Newcastle to Carlisle route
2026-02-12 18:00 - 19:00 | Main Room
Local historian Margaret Bozic explores the various ways of crossing the Tyne Gap from Newcastle to Carlisle, and the abortive proposal for a canal.

Music in the Library: Guitarist Joe Steels
2026-02-13 13:00 - 14:00 | Main Room

Spring Children's Craft Session
2026-02-16 14:00 - 15:30 | Main Room

Northumberland & Newcastle Society private talk
2026-02-17 17:30 - 20:00, 2026-03-10 17:30 - 20:00 | Main Room & Catherine Cookson Room

Thursday Talk - Inheritance Tax
2026-02-19 18:00 - 19:00 | Main Room
Dr Callum Thomson of Northumbria University follows up his very popular talk on Wills and LPAs with a highly topical talk on Inheritance Tax.

KJC / RAG student litterpick
2026-02-23 13:00 - 15:00 | Main Room & Catherine Cookson Room

Labour Party meeting
2026-02-25 19:00 - 20:30 | Main Room

Thursday Talk - The Forms of Science Fiction
2026-02-26 18:00 - 19:00 | Main Room
With Dr Stacy Gillis and Dr Job Quayle.
We will think about the genre and forms of science fiction through one of its dominant themes: utopianism. How has the genre of science fiction developed across the past three centuries in terms of form, and how is that development related to the history of utopian thought?

Thursday Talk - Men and Women of Jesmond in the Great War 1914-1918
2026-03-05 18:00 - 19:00 | Main Room
Dr Robert Shiel discusses the lives of Jesmond people in WW1.

Trustees' Meeting
2026-03-07 10:00 - 11:30 | Catherine Cookson Room
