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EPISODE · Apr 8, 2019 · 42 MIN

Birmingham

from The Things That Made England

Birmingham is the second city in England, a "city of a thousand trades" its the heart of modern Britain, Birmingham is the cultural, social, financial and commercial centre of the Midlands. Birmingham is the epitome if Englishness, it's had a civil war battle, victorian grandeur, ring roads and Baltis. It's growth shadows the rise of industrial England, it's the city of thousand trades and fuelled the industrial revolution. Though mentioned in the Doomsday book Birmingham became an urban and commercial centre in 1166. The Lord of the Manor Peter de Bermingham obtained a charter to hold a market at his castle, “ a bull ring” and after this a market town began. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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