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Poets and Poetry

‘Get Up!’

Joseph Skipsey’s short poem evokes the last goodbye a Northumberland miner made each morning.

Discovery and Invention

The Stockton and Darlington Railway

The little County Durham line built by George Stephenson and his son Robert was the place where the world’s railway infrastructure really began.

Discovery and Invention

The Hetton Railway

The railway earned a special place in history as the first to be designed for steam locomotives only.

Discovery and Invention

The Music of the Spheres

Sir William Herschel not only discovered Uranus and infrared radiation, but composed two dozen symphonies as well.

Discovery and Invention

The Gift of the Gab

There was one form of power that self-taught engineering genius George Stephenson never harnessed.

Jacobite Rebellions

The Jacobite Rebellions

Loyal subjects of King James II continued to fight his corner after he, and any real hope of success, had gone.