Why is the North East the most distinctive region of England? Where do the stereotypes about North Easterners come from, and why are they so often misunderstood

This collection situates the North-East within a developing nationwide account of British musical culture.

Explains the history of England's northern borderlands in the fifteenth century within a broader social, political and European context.

Investigates how dialect variation in the North of England is represented in writing.

BRUTAL NORTH is the first photographic exploration of modernist and Brutalist architecture across the North of England. During the post-war years the North of E