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The Young'uns
The Young'uns are an English folk group from Stockton, County Durham, England, who won the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards "Best Group" award in 2015 and 2016 and "Best Album" for ''Strangers'' in 2018. They specialise in singing unaccompanied, performing traditional folk songs and sea shanties, contemporary folk songs such as Billy Bragg's 1985 song " Between the Wars" and Sydney Carter's 1981 song " John Ball", and original works including "You Won’t Find Me on Benefits Street" (alluding to Stockton's reaction to a ''Benefits Street'' television crew) and "The Battle of Stockton" (on a 1933 clash with Oswald Mosley's blackshirts). They champion the folk music of the North East of England, where they are from, celebrating local history and performing songs by local songwriters such as Graeme Miles. The members are Sean Cooney, David Eagle and Michael Hughes, who met as teenagers and encountered folk music as underage drinkers in a local pub. They enjoyed the music and returned to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stockton-on-Tees
Stockton-on-Tees is a market town in County Durham, England, with a population of 84,815 at the 2021 UK census. It gives its name to and is the largest settlement in the wider Borough of Stockton-on-Tees. It is part of Teesside and the Tees Valley, on the northern bank of the River Tees. The River Tees was straightened in the early 19th century, so that larger ships could access the town. The ports have since relocated closer to the North Sea, and ships are no longer able to sail from the sea to the town. This is due to the building of the Tees Barrage, which was installed to manage tidal flooding. The Stockton and Darlington Railway served the port during the early part of the Industrial Revolution. The railway was also the world's first permanent steam-powered passenger railway. History Etymology ''Stockton'' is an Anglo-Saxons, Anglo-Saxon place name with the common ending ''ton'', meaning ''farm'', or ''homestead''. ''Stock'' is possibly derived from the Anglo-Saxon ''S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oswald Mosley
Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, 6th Baronet (16 November 1896 – 3 December 1980), was a British aristocrat and politician who rose to fame during the 1920s and 1930s when he, having become disillusioned with mainstream politics, turned to fascism. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Harrow from 1918 to 1924 and for Smethwick from 1926 to 1931. He founded the British Union of Fascists (BUF) in 1932 and led it until its forced disbandment in 1940. After military service during the First World War, Mosley became the youngest sitting member of Parliament, representing Harrow from 1918, first as a member of the Conservative Party, then an independent, and finally joining the Labour Party. At the 1924 general election he stood in Birmingham Ladywood against the future prime minister Neville Chamberlain, coming within 100 votes of defeating him. Mosley returned to Parliament as the Labour MP for Smethwick at a by-election in 1926 and served as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spiral Awards
Spiral Earth is an online news channel and website, based in Cambridgeshire, England. It covers folk music, roots music and the alternative music scene in the United Kingdom. It is edited by Iain Hazlewood, who founded Spiral Earth in 2004. Spiral Earth's website includes reviews of CD releases and music festivals and features about music. Its feature writers have included Colin Irwin, former assistant editor of ''Melody Maker'' magazine and former editor of '' Number One'' magazine, writer and folk musician Andy Letcher, Kirsty Ambler, and Dave Kushar. It publishes an online guide to UK and European folk, roots, and alternative festivals. This was formerly in association with ''fRoots ''fRoots'' (pronounced "eff-Roots", originally ''Folk Roots'') was a specialist music magazine published in the UK between 1979 and 2019. It specialised in folk and world music, and featured regular compilation downloadable albums, with occas ...'' magazine. Spiral Awards The Spiral Awar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Times
''The Times'' is a British Newspaper#Daily, daily Newspaper#National, national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its modern name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its sister paper ''The Sunday Times'' (founded in 1821), are published by Times Media, since 1981 a subsidiary of News UK, in turn wholly owned by News Corp. ''The Times'' and ''The Sunday Times'' were founded independently and have had common ownership only since 1966. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. ''The Times'' was the first newspaper to bear that name, inspiring numerous other papers around the world. In countries where these other titles are popular, the newspaper is often referred to as or , although the newspaper is of national scope and distribution. ''The Times'' had an average daily circulation of 365,880 in March 2020; in the same period, ''The Sunday Times'' had an average weekly circulation of 647,622. The two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnny Longstaff
John Edward Longstaff (1919-2000) was an English anti-fascist activist and soldier, who served with the International Brigades in Spain and later with the British Army during the Second World War. History Born in Stockton-on-Tees in October 1919, his early life was marked by poverty. He recalled begging for bread from workers leaving the factories. He left school and worked in a foundry before being injured by hot metal, finding himself unemployed after recovery. At the age of 15 he joined the 1934 hunger march to London. Despite initially being refused due to his age, he followed the march at a distance for a few days before being taken in. On arrival in London he witnessed police attacks on the march at Hyde Park. He found work and was involved in an industrial dispute around the YMCA in Tooting, which led to his involvement in organised labour movement politics. He played a part in the Battle of Cable Street where he says he first heard the words '' No Pasaran'' and learne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Cable Street
The Battle of Cable Street was a series of clashes that took place at several locations in the East End of London, most notably Cable Street, on Sunday 4 October 1936. It was a clash between the Metropolitan Police, sent to protect a march by members of the British Union of Fascists led by Oswald Mosley, and various anti-fascist demonstrators including local trade unionists, communists, anarchists, British Jews, and socialist groups. The anti-fascist counter-demonstration included both organised and unaffiliated participants. Background The British Union of Fascists (BUF) had advertised a march to take place on Sunday 4 October 1936, the fourth anniversary of their organisation. Thousands of BUF followers, dressed in their Blackshirt uniform, intended to march through the heart of the East End, an area that then had a large Jewish population. The BUF planned to march from Tower Hill and divide into four columns, each heading for one of four open-air public meetings wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sybil Phoenix
The Reverend Sybil Theodora Phoenix, OBE (née Marshall; 21 June 1927) is a British community worker of Guyanese birth. She was the first black woman to be awarded the MBE, in 1973. Biography Sybil Theodora Marshall was born in Georgetown in British Guiana (now Guyana), where she grew up."Sybil Phoenix OBE – community leader" Moments in Time – I Rise, 7 March 2018. When she was nine years old her mother died, after which Sybil lived with her grandfather until his death when she was 12, and then with an aunt and uncle. After leaving school she became secretary to the minister of the church as well as helping in the church youth club, where she met her future husband in her early twenties. She was also a classically-trained singer. She and her fiancé J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Morning News
The ''Western Morning News'' is a daily regional newspaper founded in 1860, and covering the West Country including Devon, Cornwall, the Isles of Scilly and parts of Somerset and Dorset in the South West of England. Organisation The ''Western Morning News'' is published by Reach plc, Reach Plc. Its main office is based in Plymouth. Charlie Elder is Editor. History The ''Western Morning News'' was founded on 3 January 1860, by William Saunders (Liberal politician), William Saunders and Edward Spender, father of Sir Wilfrid Spender. It has been published continuously since the first edition, including throughout the 1926 United Kingdom general strike, 1926 General Strike and the Plymouth Blitz. By 1920, the Devon newspaper market was getting cramped, with all papers running into financial difficulties. In the same year, Sir Leicester Harmsworth acquired the ''Western Morning News''; from 1 February 1921, the ''Western Daily Mercury'' and ''The Herald (Plymouth), Western Evening H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graeme Miles
Graeme Miles (1935 – 29 March 2013) was an English folk singer and songwriter based in Middlesbrough. Born in Greenwich, London, he grew up in Teesside and studied at West Hartlepool Art School. He became enamored with folk music and with the Teesside area in his teens, and upon realizing there was little to no folk music about Teesside itself, he set out to create it. He worked at the Middlesbrough Museum for a time, but gave up that comfortable job to work in the foundries and factories in order to better understand his community and what he was writing about. His mission was to find the beauty in the traditionally "ugly" and overlooked Northeast of England. His famous songs included "Sea Coal", "Jack Ironside," "Blue Sunset," and "Ring of Iron". During late 1982 and early 1983, Teesside Folk Group The Wilson Family, of Billingham, collaborated with Miles to produce their debut album, "Horumarye", the first album dedicated solely to Miles' works. Miles' "A Great Northern R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North East Of England
North East England, commonly referred to simply as the North East within England, is one of nine official regions of England. It consists of County Durham , Northumberland, Tyne and Wear and part of northern North Yorkshire. It is the least-populated region of England: home to 2.6 million residents in 2022. The largest settlements are Newcastle upon Tyne, Middlesbrough, Sunderland, Gateshead, Darlington, Hartlepool and Durham. The North East is covered by two mayoral combined authorities, North East Combined Authority and Tees Valley Combined Authority. It is one of three regions, the other two being North West England and Yorkshire and the Humber, that make up Northern England. History The region's historic importance is displayed by Northumberland's ancient castles, the two World Heritage Sites of Durham Cathedral and Durham Castle, and Hadrian's Wall, one of the frontiers of the Roman Empire. In fact, Roman archaeology can be found widely across the region and a specia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Stockton
The Battle of Stockton, took place on 10 September 1933 at the Market Cross in the High Street of Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, England. It was a clash between members of the British Union of Fascists (BUF) and anti-fascist demonstrators from the small local Communist Party and National Unemployed Workers Movement (NUWM). Background Stockton was hit hard by the economic recession following the Great Depression. In June 1933, Oswald Mosley announced an offensive, aiming to expand the BUF beyond its headquarters in London and base in Manchester. George Short, the Communist Party District Organiser for Teesside, had spent almost three years at the International Lenin School in Moscow. On his return, in late 1931, he threw himself into political activism on Teesside. Whilst the Stockton contingent of the NUWM were on the 1932 National Hunger March, the Stockton magistrates banned Short's NUWM Saturday evening surgeries that were held at the Market Cross on Stockton High Stree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Eagle (singer)
David Eagle (born 1985) is a comedian, singer and musician from Hartlepool, England. Eagle began his performing career as part of the folk group The Young'uns. The band won Best Group at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards in 2015 and 2016. With The Young'uns, he performed as part of the 40th Anniversary Tour of Peter Bellamy's ''The Transports''. Eagle has been blind since he was nine months old, often using it for comic effect both during The Young'uns and stand up gigs: Eagle began performing stand up in 2018. In November 2018, he won the title of "Nottingham Comedy Festival New Comedian of the Year". In April 2019, Eagle won the Bath Comedy Festival New Act Competition. In December 2019, he won the prestigious Leicester Square Theatre's New Comedian of the Year. He was second place in The Great Yorkshire Fringe New Comedian of the Year competition 2019. Eagle was featured on three episodes of the flagship Radio 4 comedy show ''The Now Show''. His debut TV performance was on Rosi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
