For those unfamiliar with Digbeth, this is the centre of Birmingham, England. There is still a medievdl timber-framed building here, though not this one.
Yes Warwick Uni, named after Warwick, actually in Cov, encouraging its students off campus to live in Leamington, sort of merges these places. I have always been town not gown hereabouts.
That's cos the streets are paved with gold 🪙 😉
A couple of years ago I caught a coach from Cov to London at about 4am, to get to the Victoria & Albert Museum for a very popular time-ticketed exhibition - no train would have got me there early enough for my time slot, and I can't afford B&B in London.
How could you not count Cov & Leam as different places? They are as different as chalk & cheese, as well as having countryside between them (l have lived many years in both places).
And yes the comma usage is ungentlemanly 🎩😉
Bad not mad and simply untrue. Revolutionary France abolished slavery before Britain (though Napoleon brought it back). Denmark abolished slave trade (though not slavery itself) before Britain.
Point taken. Not 'woke' in the strict sense of standpoint epistemology ('you are outside our oppressed group so you can never understand this...)
Good Wikipedia article, seems balanced and well-referenced: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirndl
Indeed, including John Major and Tony Blair during the referendum campaign, former PMs who had negotiated the peace agreement from the British end. Brexiters scorned their warnings as 'Project Fear'...