1886

The remarkable floating hospital that protected Tyneside from deadly diseases arriving by sea

28 October 1865 - 12 December 1930

The North East's story behind the world's first Black professional footballer

21st century

Can museums confront their colonial past?

1895

Follow the Grimshaw brothers' paintings into the city's haunted past

19th century

What can three museum specimens tell us about wildlife and the changing world around us?

1894

The speed that stunned the Victorian world

19th century

Black Jackey Johnson, the feared fortune teller whose dark rituals gripped Georgian Newcastle

21st century

Identity, ethics and the responsibilities of museums

1895

The ship that travelled 5,000 miles before it ever sailed

1876

Engineering, industry and everyday life

Medieval origin

How a vanished valley still shapes the city

1897

The search for the man in Turbinia's most famous photograph

1895

The bridges, ships and engineering that made the River Tyne the powerhouse of Victorian Britain