A History of Tyneside

Tyneside bursts with pride - not a swaggering conceit but the most obvious warm and pungent sense of civic pride. Tynesiders know who they are and everybody else does too. Yet not since the middle of the nineteenth century has there been a detailed study of the remarkable story of how Tyneside was made and how it came to look, sound and behave the way it does. A History of Tyneside tells that tale, from the retreat of the ice fields 10,000 years ago, the arrival of the Roman Emperor Hadrian, th…