In the mid-eighteenth century, the borough of Morpeth, in Northumberland, was one of many where established vested interests, whether corporate or aristocratic, faced challenges from below. The docume
For hundreds of years the keelmen, the 'keel lads o' coaly Tyne' celebrated in the north-east folk song 'The Keel Row', ferried coal down-river to the estuary and cast it aboard ships bound for London
