Bataille de Neville's Cross

La bataille de Neville's Cross (ou parfois Nevill's Cross) a eu lieu à Neville's Cross près de Durham en Angleterre entre les Écossais et les Anglais le 17 octobre 1346.

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Battle of Neville's Cross

The Battle of Neville's Cross took place during the Second War of Scottish Independence on 17 October 1346, half a mile (800 m) to the west of Durham, England. An invading Scottish army of 12,000 led by King David II was defeated with heavy loss by an English army of approximately 6,000–7,000 men led by Ralph Neville, Lord Neville. The battle was named after an Anglo-Saxon stone cross that stood on the hill where the Scots made their stand. After the victory, Neville paid to have a new cross erected to commemorate the day. The battle was the result of the invasion of France by England during the Hundred Years' War. King Philip VI of France (r. 1328–1350) called on the Scots to fulfil their obligation under the terms of the Auld Alliance and invade England. David II obliged, and after ravaging much of northern England was taken by surprise by the English defenders. The ensuing battle ended with the rout of the Scots, the capture of their king and the death or capture of most of their leadership. Strategically, this freed significant English resources for the war against France, and the English border counties were able to guard against the remaining Scottish threat from their own resources. The eventual ransoming of the Scottish King resulted in a truce that brought peace to the border for forty years.

Neville's Cross

Neville's Cross is a place in the civil parish of the City of Durham, in County Durham, England. It is also a ward of Durham with a population taken at the 2011 census of 9,940. It is situated on the A167 trunk road to the west of the centre of Durham. The area is primarily residential, although there is a newsagent, a church, some public houses and two primary schools located there. The suburb is also home to Ustinov College, the postgraduate college of Durham University.

Durham Miners Heritage Centre

The Durham Miners Heritage Centre was a museum, now closed, run by the Durham Miners Heritage Group at Neville's Cross, Durham, England. It had a display of coal mining memorabilia and an exhibition of art. One of the main reasons for the display was to educate the next generation of children about the mining past of County Durham and to give opportunities to research coal mining history, especially local school groups in the area and visitors to the city. The displays included mining pit lamps such as the famous Davy lamp, tools used in the mining trade and a selection of art by former miners. A computer facility showed photographs and there was also a section of books on mining.

Ustinov College, Durham

Ustinov College is a constituent college of Durham University. Founded in 1965 as the Graduate Society, it achieved full college status in 2003 and adopted its current name from the then-chancellor of the university, Sir Peter Ustinov. It is Durham’s first and only exclusively postgraduate college, mostly reading for PhD, MA, MSc, and LLM degrees, and is the largest college by number of students both full and part-time. The college is located on Sheraton Park in Neville's Cross having previously based in Howlands Farm at the top of Elvet Hill. The college body is diverse and comprised a community of scholars from over 100 nationalities. Members of Ustinov College are termed Ustinovian and instead of a formal tutorial supervision, the college runs its own mentorship programme. Ustinov is the only college in Durham to offer boarding to families and partners of its students and pride itself in an egalitarian and modern approach to collegiate life. The college has no regular formal halls nor does it require its members to don their gowns. It is also unique, by virtue of having a graduate-only community, in having a Graduate Common Room. However in September 2025 Durham University announced that it would be housing around 90 undergraduates at Ustinov (Sheraton Park site) from 2025, though they would be affiliated to other colleges - St Aidan's College and Van Mildert College - and will have limited access to Ustinov facilities.

Durham Miners' Hall

Redhills is the Grade II listed headquarters building of the Durham Miners' Association (DMA) in Durham, England. Officially called Miners' New Hall, it is known as Redhills from its location on Redhills Lane in the City of Durham. Redhills was designed by H. T. Gradon in Edwardian Baroque style and opened in 1915 to replace the former Miners' Hall building in North Road. Its debating chamber, made with Austrian oak in the style of a Methodist chapel, was known as the "Pitman's Parliament" and was featured in Historic England's 100 Places: Power, Protest & progress list. The main building housed the office of local Labour MP Mary Foy after her election in 2019. In May 2022, Labour leader Keir Starmer was accused of having broken COVID-19 pandemic legal restrictions at the venue the previous April, by drinking beer and eating takeaway food in a room there with other party members present. This became known as "Beergate".