By Thomas Bainbridge It is a curious observation that the elegance and refinement of Georgian manners contrasted so heavily with the brutality of the criminal code.… Read More »Jobling: Gibbetted at Jarrow and Buried on the Black Middens
By Crasterfarian I’ve written a few pieces lately on my interpretation of events in Bernicia around 630 AD, or “The Golden Age of Northumbria” as it… Read More »When Wyrd is Woven
By Thomas Bainbridge Saint Aidan of Lindisfarne is a seminal figure in Northumbrian history. Born most likely in rural Ireland, Aidan became a monk on the… Read More »An Irish Monk and Northumbrian Saint: The Story of Aidan
By Crasterfarian I mek nee wonder people get lost up here, mind, it’s a canny place to lose yourself. But howay, three places that sound almost… Read More »The Fyrd and the -ingham Settlements
By Thomas Bainbridge Newcastle is naturally wedded in the mind with coal. This connection would have been even stronger in the eighteenth century due to the… Read More »Coals to Newcastle: When a Fool’s Errand turned to Riches
By Thomas Bainbridge The burgeoning reputation of Newcastle upon Tyne as an epicentre of English industry and trade with a growing ‘proletarian’ population made it an… Read More »Newcastle’s Forgotten Revolutionary: Jean-Paul Marat
By Crasterfarian The more I read and write about history, the more I understand that what we are left with in today’s landscape are simply ghosts… Read More »Joining The Dots On Our Landscape
By Thomas Bainbridge Coal was the lifeblood of the burgeoning industrial might of England. Across the nation, men toiled deep underground in the pitch darkness, smashing and… Read More »Davy and Stephenson: The Invention of the Miners’ Safety Lamp
By Thomas Bainbridge Cuthbert is among the most cherished figures in Northumbrian history, so much so that the people of the region were once known as… Read More »The Tortuous History of Saint Cuthbert’s Bones
By Thomas Bainbridge The trade that passed through the ports of England in the 18th century both from the Continent and the burgeoning British dominions afforded immediate opportunities to amass wealth — both… Read More »Jingling Geordie: The Criminal Career of Thomas Armstrong in the Golden Age of Smuggling
