Local history
Cool things about your city you probably didn't know
Every street corner has a story. Start with these — more cities and more facts are being added.
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England
London
Two thousand years of history, from Roman walls to the Olympic Park.
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England
Manchester
The world’s first industrial city, and where the computer age quietly began.
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England
Liverpool
A port city that gave the world the Beatles and the world’s first wet dock.
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England
York
A city where Romans, Vikings and medieval merchants all left their mark.
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Scotland
Edinburgh
A castle on a volcano, and the world’s biggest arts festival every August.
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Wales
Cardiff
A coal port that became a capital, and Wales’s city of castles and TV time travel.
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Northern Ireland
Belfast
The city that built the Titanic, birthed Narnia, and now hosts Westeros.
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England
Birmingham
The workshop of the world, where the Industrial Revolution found its engine.
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England
Bristol
A port of engineers, explorers and balloonists.
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Scotland
Glasgow
The Clyde-built city that once made a quarter of the world’s ships.
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England
Leeds
Wool, railways and the very first moving picture.
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England
Sheffield
Steel city — and one of the greenest in England.
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England
Newcastle
Coals, bridges and a certain northern nightlife.
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England
Nottingham
Robin Hood, lace and two very famous high-street names.
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England
Leicester
Roman ruins, Walkers crisps and a king found under a car park.
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England
Coventry
Lady Godiva’s city, destroyed and rebuilt twice over.
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England
Brighton
The seaside escape that became a byword for the British coast.
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England
Portsmouth
The home of the Royal Navy for five centuries.
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England
Southampton
The port of departures — from the Mayflower to the Titanic.
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England
Plymouth
Drake, the Mayflower Steps and the Hoe.
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England
Norwich
A cathedral city that once rivalled London in size.
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England
Oxford
The city of dreaming spires, dons and detectives.
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England
Cambridge
Where the secret of life was discovered in a pub.
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England
Bath
Hot springs, Georgian crescents and very good manners.
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England
Durham
A peninsula, a cathedral and the Prince Bishops.
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England
Canterbury
Pilgrims, murder and the birth of English literature.
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Scotland
Aberdeen
The granite city that sparkles when it rains.
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Wales
Swansea
Copper, poetry and the world’s first passenger railway.
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Scotland
Dundee
Jute, jam, journalism — and comics.
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England
Hull
A maritime city with an abolitionist hero at its heart.
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England
Stoke-on-Trent
Six towns, one industry: the pottery of the world.
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England
Bradford
Wool money, film firsts and the Brontës up the hill.
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