Table of Contents

Foreword - Margaret Drabble
Landscape and North-Eastern-ness - Jeremy Gregory
The Prudhoe Landscape History Project: a Retrogressive Study of the Landscape History of Part of Southern Northumberland - Stephen M Cousins
The Landed Estate and the Making of the Northumberland Landscape, 1700-1914 - A.W. Purdue
Agriculture in North-Eastern England, 1750-1914 - Steven Caunce
A Walk through Hardwick Gardens - Steven Desmond
The Shadow in the Garden: Pleasure, Profit and Protection at Gibside, 1840-1860 - Judith Betney
The Walled Garden: A Northumberland Perspective - Veronica Goulty
Impolite Landscapes: Making Private Parks Public - Fiona Green
Houses and Landscape in Early Industrial County Durham -
The 'Raws': Housing the Durham Pitman in the Nineteenth Century - Winifred Stokes
Crathorne Hall: The Making of an Edwardian Landscape - Hilary J Grainger
From Defensive Moat to Romantic Landscape: the Riverbanks of the Durham Peninsula - Martin Roberts
The Darlington Landscape -
Urban Landscapes of Newcastle upon Tyne - Thomas Faulkner
To Hell, Utopia and Back Again: Imagining the Urban Landscape of Middlesbrough - Linda Polley
Landscape, Taste and National Identity: William Hutchinson's View of Northumberland (1776-78) - Helen M Berry
Thomas Bewick and the North-Eastern Landscape - Hugh Dixon
The 'Haven' and the 'Grisly Rokkes': Mary Linskill's Dangerous Landscapes and the Making of Whitby - Jan Hewitt
Cullercoats: an Alternative North-Eastern Landscape? - Laura Newton

Reviews

Contributes to broader discussions about how we read and interpret landscapes as historical 'documents'.
*ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW*

The contributions provide a good mix of approaches and understandings of landscape studies, and there are a number which are of significance to wider debates about landscape development.
*LANDSCAPE HISTORY*

This book is a pleasure to read from cover to cover. It is attractively produced and well illustrated.and the quality of the content is uniformly high. It is thoroughly recommended to anyone interested in the region, its history and its landscapes, and would give many ideas for research and investigation to local historians elsewhere.
*THE LOCAL HISTORIAN*

The sheer diversity of topics and approaches encompassed by the assays is one of this volume's charms. [...] It is difficult to summarise such a rich and diverse collection of essays.
*NORTHERN HISTORY*