Helen Berry, University of Newcastle, UK and Jeremy Gregory, University of Manchester.

'... this collection of essays makes an important contribution to our knowledge of the patterns of cultural production and consumption in the North East of England.' Northern History

• Contents: Introduction, Helen Berry and Jeremy Gregory; Was the North-East different from other areas? The property of everyday consumption in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, Lorna Scammell; North of the Trent: images of northern-ness and northern English in the 18th century, Katie Wales; Spirits in the North-East? Gin and other vices in the long 18th century, J.A. Chartres; The sociability of the trade guilds of Newcastle and Durham, 1660-1750: the urban renaissance revisited, Rebecca King; 'A clumsey Countrey Girl': the material and print culture of Betty Bowes, Adrian Green; An alternative community in north-east England: Quakers, morals and popular culture in the long 18th century, Richard C. Allen; Creating polite space: the organisation and social function of the Newcastle assembly rooms, Helen Berry; Newcastle's first art exhibitions and the language of civic humanism, Paul Usherwood; Index.

Helen Berry, University of Newcastle, UK and Jeremy Gregory, University of Manchester.

'... this collection of essays makes an important contribution to our knowledge of the patterns of cultural production and consumption in the North East of England.' Northern History

• Contents: Introduction, Helen Berry and Jeremy Gregory; Was the North-East different from other areas? The property of everyday consumption in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, Lorna Scammell; North of the Trent: images of northern-ness and northern English in the 18th century, Katie Wales; Spirits in the North-East? Gin and other vices in the long 18th century, J.A. Chartres; The sociability of the trade guilds of Newcastle and Durham, 1660-1750: the urban renaissance revisited, Rebecca King; 'A clumsey Countrey Girl': the material and print culture of Betty Bowes, Adrian Green; An alternative community in north-east England: Quakers, morals and popular culture in the long 18th century, Richard C. Allen; Creating polite space: the organisation and social function of the Newcastle assembly rooms, Helen Berry; Newcastle's first art exhibitions and the language of civic humanism, Paul Usherwood; Index.