Northerners: The bestselling history of the North of England

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As the north is largely uncultivated, there are few roads of import there. Most of the inland trade passes by either the kingsroad or the rivers. Trade items from the north include wool, [49] [33] hides, [33] and timber. [33] White Harbor, the main port town of the north, [50] contains silversmiths [51] and the Old Mint. [33] Food can be shipped from the south through the narrow sea to the northern city. [50] Military strength

During the Dawn Age, Westeros was inhabited by children of the forest and by giants. [57] Maester Kennet has found evidence that giants who lived in what is now the north buried their dead. [57] What is perhaps more surprising is how English people feel about each other. One might have expected that devolution would have strengthened a sense of Englishness at the same time that it weakened Britishness. But when we looked at shared values within England, we found an even larger gulf between northerners and southerners than we did between English and Scots. There is nothing sillier than a Southerner imitating a northern accent, unless it is a northerner imitating a Brummie accent. One stereotype that southerners have had to live with for years is that they aren’t the friendliest folk, especially in the capital. A cookie set by YouTube to measure bandwidth that determines whether the user gets the new or old player interface.

Queen Alysanne Targaryen convinced her husband, King Jaehaerys I Targaryen, to grant the New Gift to the Night's Watch [65] despite the objections of Lord Ellard Stark. [66]

You’ve got not only the Scottish first minister but you’ve got the regional mayors saying they are not consulted and listened to … you’ve got no mechanism, no forum for coordinating the regions and nations, and I think that the public are fed up. It would appear that the notion of a cheap night out isn’t an option in the south, not that we’d spend our weekend down there anyway. As I said, this is not an analytical account, and some of the thornier issues of northern identity are side stepped. There is also a little bit too much polishing over historical events which would make for a more interesting book. Rather than interrogating northern identity, Groom's aim here seems to be to present the identity in the first place. Instead of over analysing historical turns or unknotting historiographies, Groom is telling the story of the north of England. How it began, what happened and why it is what it is today. It's a simple, effective history book which could be read by anyone with an interest. As it should be. Brian Groom's writing is fine, but he does this thing where he'll mention something really interesting then spend maybe two sentences on it, when I know from prior knowledge and further research that he could have spent some time with it and it would have been an interesting read. Sometimes he was literally just listing events and people. Yeah, I now have a list of things to read more about, but I kind of would have liked to read about them here. I just think this book is too small to try to cover so much history of such a large portion of the country. This authoritative new history of place and people lays out the dramatic events that created the north – waves of migration, invasions and battles, and transformative changes wrought on European culture and the global economy. In a sweeping narrative that takes us from the earliest times to the present day, the book shows that the people of the north have shaped Britain and the world in unexpected ways.When Eddard is later imprisoned in the Red Keep after the death of Robert, his heir, Robb Stark, calls the northern banners to Winterfell and marches south to rescue Eddard [36] with a strength of nearly twenty thousand [13] [2] close to the start of autumn. [55] House Karstark contributes at least two thousand three hundred men, mostly infantry. [36] House Manderly provides at least fifteen hundred, [13] but it is not their full strength. [15] House Dustin sends a minimal amount. [72] Of the four thousand armored lances who come to Winterfell, only three or four hundred are knights. [36]