A history of Northern England from the Ice Age to the present day.
Reviews: History
Book review: ‘Orwell’s Roses‘ by Rebecca Solnit
Pleasure, truth, and roses.
Book review: ‘The Northern Question’ by Tom Hazeldine
British politics and the North-South divide.
Book review: ‘Ancestors’ by Prof. Alice Roberts
The prehistory of Britain in seven burials.
Book review: ‘Border’ by Kapka Kassabova
A journey to the edge of Europe.
Book review: ‘Albert & the Whale’ by Philip Hoare
An eclectic biography.
Book review: ‘Stasiland’ by Anna Funder
Stories from behind the Berlin Wall.
Book review: ‘Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere’ by Jan Morris
Place writing at its finest, and most personal.
Book review: ‘The Enlightenment’ by Ritchie Robertson
The pursuit of happiness, 1680–1790.
Book review: ‘Etta Lemon’ by Tessa Boase
The woman who saved the birds.