North-East History Tour

It doesn’t take a genius to work out how Newcastle-upon-Tyne got its name. But what about its many suburbs? These were all originally set...

(from Wikipedia ) Real tennis, the ancient forerunner of our more familiar racket sports, has been around since at least as long ago...

Ludwig Wittgenstein is universally regarded as one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century. Years ahead of his time, he worke...

[The following article originally appeared as an obituary in the now defunct North-Easterner Magazine in 1998] An Obituary of Dame Cat...