The Northumbrians- NE England and its People

“Superbly researched and written with immense affection, Jackson’s history of northeastern England has a fascinating nugget of information on every page … A hugely impressive book.’”  The Sunday Times

Northumbrians have made an astonishing contributions to both British  and global history.

Dan Jackson sets out to recover this lost history, exploring the deep roots of Northumbrian culture―hard work and heavy drinking, sociability and sentimentality, militarism and masculinity―through centuries of border warfare and dangerous industry. He explains what we can learn about Northumbria’s people from its landscape and architecture, and revisits the Northumbrian Enlightenment that gave the world the locomotive and the lightbulb. This story reaches right to the present day, as this extraordinary region finds itself caught between an indifferent south and an increasingly confident Scotland.

From the Venerable Bede and the prince-bishops of Durham to Viz and Geordie Shore, this vital new history reveals a part of England with an uncertain future, but whose people remain as remarkable as ever.

Paperback 412 pages  C Hurst and Co Publishers