In 2010, Dr James Bennett founded the Radical Newcastle project, which aims to recover the radical and submerged dimensions of Newcastle’s past and present.
By bringing together activists, writers, historians and academics from the fields of human geography, creative arts, media, communications, anthropology, history and politics, the Radical Newcastle Colloquium in 2011 and Radical Newcastle Symposium in 2012 fostered awareness of the contributions each could make to understanding our radical past and its impact on the present and future.