Northerners: The bestselling history of the North of England

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As histories go, this is very complete, from the first Northerners we known about right up to the present day.

We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. This book provides a sweeping and vivid narrative, starting from the earliest times, coupled with cross-cutting chapters on fascinating social and cultural themes. The only thing I wish could have been added would have been a chapter on the LGBT history of the North. It defines northerners liberally: anyone born in the north or who has spent time there and feels an affinity. It really does near enough go back to Roman times, this North and South divide, but you begin to understand why and how impactful all those decisions, layered on top of each other, create the varied Northern landscape we see today.Rather than interrogating northern identity, Groom's aim here seems to be to present the identity in the first place. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

It would have been better if Groom only wrote new information instead of repeating points made in previous chapters.So while interesting and informative tells us little more than a few facts we didn't previously know. On that note, I think the book could have done with a map of the North at the beginning for those that are less familiar with Northern geography). It read like the notes-gathering section of a lengthy dissertation, with a lot of information that could have been pruned, a considerable amount of repetition, and very little analysis or discussion of what life was really like on the ground. A pop-history survey of Northern English identity, it was very interesting to someone who has lived in the North. Enjoyed the first half of the book a lot, probably as I knew less about the early history of the North.