In the mid-19th century, a number of globally renowned radicals including Garibaldi, Mazzini and Kossuth had important links with Tyneside, and many of them visited.  Keith Jewitt has been searching Tyneside archives to find out more about this hotbed of revolutionary fervour.

Dr Stacy Gillis (Newcastle University) will discuss the place of the country house in the Golden Age detective story.  First asking why do murders often happen in the country house in Golden Age English detective fiction, she then traces a longer history of the detective...