If you grew up anywhere near Newcastle, you were probably taken round the Hancock Museum at some point and spent most of the visit with your nose pressed against a glass case of stuffed animals [more…]
Cecily Neville was a Neville of Raby who married into the House of York, gave birth to two kings of England and outlived every one of her sons. Along the way she was accused of [more…]
Shakespeare made him famous. The Scots gave him his nickname, which a well-known football club adopted 500 years later. This is the story of a man who lived his life in maximum gear throughout… accelerating [more…]
If you were ever handed a bottle of Lucozade when ill as a child, you can trace the origins of this back to a Stockton-born surgeon, a baby who died on his ward in 1908, [more…]
John Martin from Haydon Bridge made his name painting the end of the world, so convincingly that one London gallery had to put a railing round his picture to hold the crowds back. He also [more…]
George Biddell Airy was Astronomer Royal for 46 years. He drew the line the whole world sets its clocks by, weighed the Earth from the bottom of a coal pit in South Shields and never, [more…]
Collingwood was the other admiral at Trafalgar. He was the first into the fight, took charge of the whole fleet after Nelson’s death and brought every British ship through the storm that followed. He was [more…]
The series takes its first (but not final) turn to the darker side of the North East’s historical figures. Mary Ann Cotton of Low Moorsley was the first female serial killer in British history. This [more…]
Thomas Bewick redrew every bird in Britain on blocks of boxwood the size of a beer mat, hid some very rude jokes in the margins of a natural history book, and created fingerprints 80-odd years [more…]
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