Newcastle Upon Tyne

�?? ... undoubtedly the most important book on the history of Newcastle to hit the market for upwards of half a century�??and is arguably the best of all-time ... a brilliant and ground-breaking work ... it will be argued that there is still room on the market for a straight-forward chronological history of the city ... but such a work will never achieve the depth of analysis which this collection of specialist essays skilfully attains.�?� The North-Easterner