1st Edition
Creating and Consuming Culture in North-East England, 1660–1830
168 Pages
by
Routledge
168 Pages
by
Routledge
168 Pages
by
Routledge
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Historians of the long eighteenth century have recently recognised that this period is central both to the history of cultural production and consumption and to the history of national and regional identity. Yet no book has, as yet, directly engaged with these two areas of interest at the same time. By uniting interest in the history of culture with the history of regional identity, Creating and... Read more
Contents: Introduction, Helen Berry and Jeremy Gregory; Was the North-East different from other areas? The property of everyday consumption in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, Lorna Scammell; North of the Trent: images of northern-ness and northern English in the 18th century, Katie Wales; Spirits in the North-East? Gin and other vices in the long 18th century, J.A. Chartres; The sociability of the trade guilds of Newcastle and Durham, 1660-1750: the urban renaissance revisited, Rebecca King; 'A clumsey Countrey Girl': the material and print culture of Betty Bowes, Adrian Green; An alternative community in north-east England: Quakers, morals and popular culture in the long 18th century, Richard C. Allen; Creating polite space: the organisation and social function of the Newcastle assembly rooms, Helen Berry; Newcastle's first art exhibitions and the language of civic humanism, Paul Usherwood; Index.
Biography
Helen Berry, University of Newcastle, UK and Jeremy Gregory, University of Manchester.
'... this collection of essays makes an important contribution to our knowledge of the patterns of cultural production and consumption in the North East of England.' Northern History
