Book reviews

AIR CRASH NORTHUMBERLAND, by Russell Gray, Jim Corbett, Jonathan Shipley and Neil Anderson. Published by Countryside Books (email: info@countrysidebooks.co.uk). £12.99. Softback.

RESEARCHED by four members of the Northumberland-based Air Crash Investigation and Archaeology (ACIA) group, this book details 29 crashes in the county between 1930 and 1983 with information in each case about the aircraft make, the ...


HIDDEN CHAINS: THE SLAVERY BUSINESS AND NORTH EAST ENGLAND, by John Charlton. Published by Tyne Bridge Publishing, PO Box 88, Newcastle NE99 1DX (tel: 0191 277 4174). £10. Softback.

BASED on new research, Hidden Chains reveals that this region was surprisingly deeply involved with the Atlantic slave trade which saw the enforced movement of millions of Africans to the Americas in the 17th and 18th centuries.


NORTHUMBERLAND’S LOST HOUSES: A PICTURE POSTCARD HISTORY, by Jim Davidson. Published by Wagtail Press, Gairshield, Steel, Hexham NE47 0HS (www.wagtailpress.co.uk). £14.99. Softback.

SOURCED from the author’s collection of more than 20,000 postcards, this book offers a rare glimpse of the many grand country houses, halls and town houses throughout the county which have vanished in the past hundred years.


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