• Thursday Talk – Tyneside Family Companies

    Main Room

    David Faulkner looks at the origin and development of three key local family companies - Ringtons, Barbour and Fenwick - and what they mean to the North East.

  • Thursday Talks – Family Companies

    Main Room

    David Faulkner explores NE family companies - with specific reference to Ringtons, Barbour and Fenwick. The importance of family businesses to the UK economy, their particular features, and detailed examples of the origin and development of three important local family businesses based in the North...

  • Philosophy for a Flourishing Life: Ethics and the Good Life *DOWNSTAIRS*

    Catherine Cookson Room Jesmond Library, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

    What does it mean to live a good life? In this half-day course, we explore key ethical traditions—such as virtue ethics, utilitarianism, and Kantian ethics—and apply them to real-life dilemmas. Participants engage in a reflective exercise on personal integrity and write a personal ethics statement....

  • Thursday Talk – the 1826 Northumberland Election

    Main Room

    To celebrate the 200th anniversary, Keith Jewitt repeats a talk first given in 2017, about the year that election fever gripped the county.  Boozing, speechmaking, heckling, fake news, scandals and occasional outbreaks of gentlemanly politeness made this election big news, at both a local and...