Northerners - A History, from the Ice Age to the Present Day

A Waterstones Best History Book of 2022The bestselling history of the North of England as told through the lives of its inhabitants.-Entertaining- The Times-Definitive- The Mirror-Highly readable- Financial TimesA work of unrivalled scale and ambition, Northerners is the defining biography of northern England.This authoritative new history of place and people lays out the dramatic events that created the north - waves of migration, invasions and battles, and transformative changes wrought on European culture and the global economy. In a sweeping narrative that takes us from the earliest times to the present day, the book shows that the people of the north have shaped Britain and the world in unexpected ways.At least six Roman emperors ruled from York. The Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria was Europe-s leading cultural and intellectual centre. Cartimandua, Queen of the Brigantes, deserves to be as famous as Boudica. Neanderthals and Vikings, Central European Jews, African-Caribbeans an