28 October 1865 - 12 December 1930

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

1851

Empire, colonialism and conservation

20th century

What Chapman's safari reveals about racism and collecting

21st century

Can museums confront their colonial past?

16 May 1916 - 29 November 1995

How Sierra Leone’s first female doctor qualified in Newcastle

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?

20th century

Meet the comics, entertainers and eccentrics who made the North East laugh

21st century

Identity, ethics and the responsibilities of museums

1876

Engineering, industry and everyday life

20th century

Exploring a century of artistic styles, ideas and innovation

Medieval origin

How a vanished valley still shapes the city

1895

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