1st Edition
Northern Identities Historical Interpretations of ‘the North’ and ‘Northernness’
Edited By Neville Kirk
Copyright 2000
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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Recent years have witnessed an explosion of academic and popular interest in the issue of social identity. Yet the subject areas of regional and sub-regional identities, and historical engagements between ’the regional’, ’the local’ and ’the national’, remain very neglected. Seeking to make a contribution towards redressing these areas of neglect and to further advancing our knowledge and... Read more
Contents: Introduction; Neville Kirk; Part one: Constructions of ’the North’ and ’Northernness’: Constructing ’the North’: space and a sense of place, Stuart Rawnsley; Music and northern identity, 1890-c. 1965, Dave Russell; Urban systems, identity and development in Lancashire and Yorkshire: a complex question, Stephen Caunce; ’The playground of Northern England’: the Isle of Man, Manxness and the northern working class, John Belchem; Tradition and tourism: representing Basque identities in San Sebastián and its province, 1848-1936, John K. Walton; Part two: Case studies: place and identity: Samuel Bamford and northern identity, Martin Hewitt and Robert Poole; Sport and the social construction of identity in north-east England, 1800-1914, Mike Huggins; ’In the Midlands but not of them’: Derbyshire’s dark peak - an imagined northern landscape, Melanie Tebbutt; Ambiguous identities: constructing and de-constructing black and white 'Scouse' identities in twentieth-century Liverpool, Diane Frost; Index.
Biography
Neville Kirk
