New Book!

WOR DIARY 2009

The authors have found a historical north east event for each day of the year! This is excellent value for £5.00. It is available via the post. See web site: www.wordiary.org

Geordies --Wa Mental

Dave Douglass' volume of autobiography is a brilliant evocation of life in South Tyneside in the fifties and sixties. His powers of recollection are remarkable, his account of schooldays at the Catholic Sec. Mod. both hilarious and moving. Many readers will see the youth politics as whacky, to say the least, but the narrative is related with such verve and humour that it is easy to be carried along. This book is highly recommended and will not disappoint! It can be obtained from the author for £10 via: djdouglass@hotmail.co.uk

HIDDEN CHAINS

By John Charlton

Description
We don't associate the north east part of Great Britain with the slave trade, but John Charlton's new book, Hidden Chains tells the compelling and previously untold story of the involvement of the region with that terrible yet lucrative business. From poor migrants seeking fortunes in the New World to ambitious plantation owners, and from sailors working the slave ships to returning entrepreneurs bringing their wealth back home, North Easterners were intimately connected with the production of tobacco, sugar and rum in the Caribbean and North America. The privileged certainly enjoyed the riches that could be the result.

The story of the North East's vital role in the Abolition of Slavery movement is also explored in detail. Hidden Chains grew out of 2007's Remembering Slavery Project which commemorated the end of Britain's involvement in the slave trade and will be published in association with Tyne and Wear Museums in October 2008.

'John Charlton's account is pioneering and revealing: a bold ststement of new findings and a call fro futher investigation into the links between North East England and the world of Atlantic slavery.' (Professor James Walvin, author of 'Black Ivory')
Softback

Price
£10 plus £1 post.
ISBN No
978 185795 123 3

Available from Tyne Bridge Publishing, P O Box 88, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE99 1DX
tynebridge@newcastle.gov.uk