Today he is considered a “Mackem”, a Wearsider, a native of Sunderland. Photographs courtesy of Tyne and Wear Archives, Newcastle Libraries and dkodigital. The Civil War theory neatly corresponds with contemporary experience – Newcastle as favoured regional capital, Sunderland as second best – two proto-cities locked in a titanic struggle over the rights of coal and the balance of economic power. One reader of this blog has suggested that “Mackem” was in use in spoken language much earlier than I had anticipated. Prior to the civil war Newcastle was the major supplier of coal to London. Plagues, witch trials and fires are familiar aspects of Elizabethan and Stuart life but the greatest disruption was caused by the Civil War. Out came the “Little Waster” and his tales of debt, dole and indolence. *Some commentators have also joked that the Tyne-Wear rivalry began when part of Tyneside was north of Hadrian’s Wall – and hence barbarian – while Sunderland was safely part of the Roman Empire. But for this to have any success, Mackems and Geordies may have to recognise what they have in common first. [1] This castle is the location where Henry VIII kept his hat for most of his life before losing it at the Battle of Newburn. The Siege of Newcastle (3 February 1644 – 27 October 1644) occurred during the First English Civil War, when a Covenanter army under the command of Lord General Alexander Leslie, 1st Earl of Leven besieged the Royalist garrison under Sir John Marlay, the city's governor. †Lancaster writes that during the nineteenth century “artisans from Tyneside and Wearside would assemble in large crowds and march through Newcastle displaying examples of their craft ranging from glass to footwear and conclude with concerts in public houses. David Kemp told me via email: “My dad who was born in the West End of Newcastle in 1913, always referred to ‘Mackems.’ He said it was to poke fun at their pronunciation of ‘make’ and ‘take’. It is also not clear how this original hostility played through into the nineteenth century when Newcastle and Sunderland were fundamentally reconfigured, new industries and identities were created, and there was as much emphasis placed on the geography of the “North East Coast” – which stretched from Blyth to the Tees – and the “Great Northern Coalfield” – comprising all the pit villages of Northumberland and Durham – as the ports which shipped the coal. Sunderland’s stance in the Civil War only made things even bitterer between them and the Newcastle Royalists. ( Log Out /  Incidentally he had no time for them. This includes a tendency to use diphthongs rather than pure vowels (face, fejus, school, skewel) and a use of an “ay” vowel sound instead of the “e” in Geordie ([ɛi] diphthong versus /iː/) in words such as cheese, please and green.♦. My reason for asking is the clear memory of thousands of Sunderland supporters charging around the Capital [during the 1973 FA Cup final] singing – ‘Geordies here, Geordies there, Geordies in Trafalgar Square la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la.’”. A win for Wearside would be lauded in Newcastle – as seen in 1937 when a, Bobby Thompson had what we would now call a “Mackem” accent, a variation of North East speech related to Northumbrian, Tyneside and Durham Pitmatic dialect but with a few differences. Instead, a shared identity prevailed across the region, a sense of kinship that was celebrated when London teams visited and when Newcastle and Sunderland found success on the field. How this will play out remains anyone’s best bet. arrived at St James Park for the Tyne-Wear Derby, hoping for their first win on Newcastle soil in thirteen years. It appears that it was the Irish who bore the brunt of prejudice in the North East not the unfortunate Wearsiders who unwittingly found themselves on Tyneside. “Mackem” is, in fact, a very modern coinage. It is worth reiterating, however, that although change has pushed the two cities apart – defining one against the other – they remain remarkably similar places, with a shared history and strong sense of themselves. Success on the pitch had come at a price for the Toon Army; a summer transfer window had come and gone with owner Mike Ashley hoping to coast along, riding the success of the 2011/12 campaign. Since populations were much less sedentary than today, people moved both within the region – from village to village, chasing opportunities for work – and into the North East from Scotland, Wales and Ireland. §This and some of the evidence regarding Newcastle-Sunderland’s common identity is from Up There: The North-East, Football, Boom & Bust by Michael Walker (2014). Newcastle was a wealthy and powerful town and during the civil war Newcastle became a Royalist city and the rivalry was now greater than ever. Much of the vocabulary which differentiated these dialects – words relating to coalmining, industry, food and 19th century life – has now been lost, and so today, Mackem differs to the Geordie of Tyneside mostly through pronunciation. To read more on this story: check out the companion piece “The Wear-Tyne Derby, The Tyne-Wear Derby”. ), §This and some of the evidence regarding Newcastle-Sunderland’s common identity is from, ♦Common phrases such as “Howay”/”Ha’way” are now spelt “Howay” on Tyneside and “Ha’wa. In 1903, Sunderland even staged a Wear-Tees fixture at St. James Park after the Football Association banned them from playing at Roker Park. Bobby’s shows always had the same format. Several fans were arrested for violent disorder, and subsequently banned from attending a football ground for the rest of their lives; others escaped punishment lost in a sea of feverish rioting. It was independent of football and was a means of identifying anyone from Sunderland and surrounding area.. ‘Geordie’ definitely referred only to those born along the banks of industrial Tyneside and no wider. In the post-industrial age, with attention focused on the Tyne-Wear conurbation, on the city centres and their new universities, and on a tourism and services-centred economy, it is easy to forget, however, that all the large towns of the North East once found themselves on top (with Newcastle, South Shields, Sunderland, Middlesbrough all jostling for position) and that economic rivalries were often subsequently much more small-scale – like those between Newcastle, North Shields, Gateshead, South Shields and Wallsend on the Tyne.

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