Newcastle Upon Tyne: A Modern History

...undoubtedly the most important book on the history of Newcastle to hit the market for upwards of half a century-and is arguably the best of all-time ...a brilliant and ground-breaking work ...it will be argued that there is still room on the market for a straight-forward chronological history of the city ...but such a work will never achieve the depth of analysis which this collection of specialist essays skilfully attains. The North-Easterner