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The city's politics have long been dominated by the activities of two local political action committees, the People's Alliance (PA) and the Durham Committee on the Affairs of Black People (DCABP). PA is a mostly-white progressive organization, while the DCABP is a black moderate group.
The history of Durham University spans over 190 years since it was founded by Act of Parliament. King William IV granted royal assent to the Act on 4 July 1832, and granted the university a royal charter on 1 June 1837, incorporating it and confirming its constitution. [1] The university awarded its first degrees on 8 June 1837.
1867 - Durham incorporated. [2] 1869 - Union Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church founded in Hayti. [3] 1880 - Population: 2,041. [4] 1881 Town becomes seat of newly established Durham County. [2] [5] W. Duke Sons & Company tobacco manufacturer in business. [6] 1887 Durham Hebrew Congregation established (approximate date). [7]
For the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, which redrew the constituency map ahead of the 2024 United Kingdom general election, the Boundary Commission for England opted to combine the unitary authority of County Durham with the Tyne and Wear boroughs of Gateshead, South Tyneside and Sunderland as a sub-region of the North East Region, with the creation of a cross-county ...
The constituency contains a large minority of students, researchers and academics at the early 19th century founded University of Durham, [n 3] that has a claim towards being the third oldest in England and has elected Labour MPs since 1935, although there have been strong SDP–Liberal Alliance and Liberal Democrat challenges to Labour since the 1980s.
Former Durham Association of Educators president Michelle Burton, with 29,141 votes, or 13.32%. Former Durham Public Schools Board of Education chair Mike Lee , with 28,703 votes, or 13.12%.
Durham residents are debating and working to create a more accurate marker on the Oyster River Massacre, the deadliest event in the town’s history. How removal of a Durham historical marker ...
The county of Durham (including the Borough of Darlington) returned 7 MPs to the UK Parliament from 1983 to 2024. Under the 2023 review of Westminster constituencies, coming into effect for the 2024 general election, the boundary commission proposed that one constituency be shared with the county of Tyne and Wear.