18. The North South Divide

“Dan Jackson, the author of The Brilliant, The Northumbrian, discusses the significance of Northumbria and regional history.”

“Dan's book Northumbrians makes a brilliant case for the significance of Northumbria and regional history.”

“The speaker mentions not having read James Hoare's recent book on the history of England, which discusses the north-south divide.”

“The book argues that England only got a sort of uniform English culture from the 1920s onwards due to influences like the BBC, which erased dialect and class differences.”

“There's a book by David Hackett Fisher called Albion Seed, which describes how the Cavaliers went to Delaware and the Puritans went to New England.”