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  • The Northumbrians

  • North-East England and Its People: A New History
  • Written by: Dr. Dan Jackson
  • Narrated by: Dr. Dan Jackson
  • Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
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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.
©2019 Hurst Publishers (P)2019 Hurst Publishers
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  • Categories: History
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"The best works of local history exert a fascination that transcends the merely local, and The Northumbrians is definitely one of the best." (The Sunday Times)

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I was born a Northumbrian and I enjoyed the book immensely. I might have been more pessimistic in discussing the 1920s and 1930s but I think it was, on reflection, handled superbly.

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