`Required reading for all those interested in the history of North-East England'. ANTHONY FLETCHER.
In November 2004 the people of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, the historic counties of Durham andNorthumberland, along with Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland in North Yorkshire, decisively rejected a regional assembly. The referendum came as the culmination of a long campaign for regional devolution, which asked a number of searching questions. What sort of a region is and was the North East of England? How deep-rooted is the identity of the North East as a region? How can one find a regional identity in the more distant past?
This collection of essays, the product of a research project undertaken collaboratively by the five north-eastern Universities, looks for the elusive self-conscious region over many centuries. It suggests that the notion of a single regional identity is a recent phenomenon overlaying a kaleidoscope of sub-regional associations and connections. Today'sregion appears to be more fissured and fragile than we like to imagine. The approach and conclusions reached are of significance not only for the history of the old counties of north-eastern England,but also for the wider history of England, and hold significant implications for the history of regions and regionalism in general.
ADRIAN GREEN is Lecturer in History at Durham University;Professor A.J. POLLARD is University Fellow at the University of Teesside.
Details
First Published: 16 Nov 2007
13 Digit ISBN: 9781843833352
Pages: 258
Size: 23.4 x 15.6
Binding: Hardback
Imprint: Boydell Press
Series:
Regions and Regionalism in HistorySubject:
Medieval HistoryDetails updated on 14 Mar 2010
Contents
- 1 Introduction: Identifying Regions
- 2 North-eastern Identities from the Scottish Wars to the Wars of the Roses, 1396-1620
- 5 Borders and Bishopric: Regional Identities in the Pre-Modern North East, 15 59-1620
- 6 Law in North-East England: Community, Country and Region, 1550-1850
- 7 A Shock for Bishop Pudsey: Social Change and Regional Identity in the Diocese of Durham, 1820-1920
- 8 Business Regionalism: Defining and Owning the Industrial North-East, 1850- 1914
- 9 Competing Identities: Irish and Welsh England, 1851-1980
- 11 Immigrant Politics and North-East Identity, 1907-1973
- 13 Regionalism and Cultural History: The Case of North-Eastern England, 1918-1 976
- 14 Conclusion: Finding North-East England
