Histories

The River People

The story of the people of Newcastle and of the River Tyne, beginning with the Celts, followed by the Romans, the Saxons, the Vikings, Normans, the Tudors, the Stewarts, the Hanoverians, the Victorians, the Georgians, the new Elizabethans. The influence of the Industrial Revolution, and the local shipbuilding industry.

The Cultural Life of Newcastle in Hanoverian Times

From 1715 to 1847, the growth of publishing, art, and society in general. Concentrating on those key figures such as the fist and second earl Grey, Thomas Spence, James Murray’.

The Cultural Life of Newcastle in Victorian Times

Following the lines of the Hanoverians this book follows the influence of the Queen and Court, and the growth of the connection of London culture, in literature, art and theatre.

Newcastle and the American Revolution

The involvement of the Fifth Northumberland Fusiliers, Hugh, heir to the Duke of Northumberland, the First Earl Grey, in the War. The short history attempts to show that General and Admiral Howe did not seek to win a shooting war – which they thought in the long term was impossible - but rather tried to bring the Americans to the negotiating table.