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Vacancies at Oxbow

Newcastle and Gateshead Before 1700

edited by Diana Newton and A.J. Pollard

This fine volume aims not to produce a comprehensive narrative of pre-modern Newcastle and Gateshead, but to gather a series of essays presenting aspects of the two settlements' past from a range of approaches and disciplines. The topics covered include the spectacular economic growth that followed the building of the Norman castle and the halt caused by conflict with Scotland; the rise of the coal trade; the significance of religion and the influence of the bishops of Durham; the governance of the towns and the buildings to which this gave rise; the impact, time after time, of plague; the relations of local elites with wider regional society; and, the financial and other networks within which both Newcastle and Gateshead operated, which included London and the ports of northern Europe. 330p b/w illus (Phillimore 2009)

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