The Northumbrians have been overlooked by British and global
history, but they've made astonishing contributions to both. 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.
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