Front Row: The Bowes Legacy

Join historian and writer Val Scully, author of My Name is Eleanor, a work inspired by the life of John Bowes’ grandmother, whose home was in Durham’s Derwent Valley. In this intimate and insightful conversation, Val reveals how the family’s Gibside estate is at the heart of the ‘Land of Oak and Iron’, an area which has since become renowned for its history of enlightened and progressive relationships between the working classes and their employers. As she explores the story of The Bowes Museum from a perspective which makes its creation ‘for the people’ no surprise at all, she will share an insight into the Bowes family’s influence on the social, economic and industrial history of Tyneside.