An Unofficial 'The Rest Is History' Reading List

18. The North South Divide

January 28, 2021

Description

England has long been divided by an invisible line somewhere north of Watford and south of the Mersey. But do northerners really have more in common with Scots and Welsh people than their fellow...
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Books Referenced

The Northumbrians

Author: Dan Jackson

Context:

Tom introduces Dan Jackson as the author of this book, describing it as 'brilliant' and noting it makes a case for the significance of Northumbria and regional history more broadly.

Classes and Cultures

Author: Ross McKibben

Context:

Dominic explicitly references this book, discussing McKibben's argument that England only developed a uniform English culture from the 1920s onwards due to the BBC erasing differences of dialect, class, and regional culture.

Albion's Seed

Author: David Hackett Fischer

Context:

Dan describes this as 'a great book' that explains how different groups from the British Isles migrated to different parts of America - Cavaliers to Delaware, Puritans to New England, and borderers (English and Scots) to Appalachia.