NORTHUMBRIANS: NORTH EAST ENGLAND AND ITS PEOPLE (HURST)

In this wide-ranging new history of the people of North-East England, Dan Jackson explores the deep roots of Northumbrian culture in centuries of border warfare and dangerous and demanding work in industry, at sea and underground. He explains how the landscape and architecture of the North East explains so much about the people who have lived there, and how a 'Northumbrian Enlightenment' emerged from this most literate part of England, leading to a catalogue of inventions that changed the world, from the locomotive to the lightbulb.