Free history workshops on infidelity through the ages

Attitudes to morality and marriage in the North-east during the 18th and 19th centuries will be the focus of free interactive workshops to mark Local History Month.

Our History Department is joining forces with libraries across the region to promote Local History Month through the free sessions.

History Lecturers Rob Lee and Tony Nicholson will lead workshops on the theme Illicit Love and Public Shame.

Rob’s workshops will look at whether attitudes have changed by asking where the sympathies of the community lie when a clergyman becomes linked to the parish schoolmistress and an innkeeper throws his wife down the stairs.

Scandal and publicity Tony will examine the scandal and publicity which surrounded the dramatic story in Whitby when a wealthy shipowner’s wife eloped with a middle-class professional.

The sessions will be held at:

• Stokesley Library and Information Centre, North Road, 1.00pm to 4.00pm, Thursday 7 May
• Redcar Central Library, Coatham Road, 10.00am to 12noon, Friday 8 May
• Teesside Archives, Exchange Place, Middlesbrough, 10.00am to 12noon, Tuesday 12 May
• Stockton Central Library, Church Road, 10.00am to 12noon, Thursday 14 May
• Darlington Central Library, Crown Street, 2.00pm to 4.00pm, Tuesday 19 May
• Hartlepool Central Library, York Road, 2.00pm to 4.00pm, Wednesday 20 May.

All are welcome. For more information contact 01642 384019 or email arts@tees.ac.uk

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