Berwick-upon-Tweed by https://padlet.com/mafaldatkdfonseca/vh4cbrj5dpq8ejqu 12.ºC en-us 2020-11-28 13:56:18 UTC 2023-05-18 13:46:59 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f4da.png Berwick-upon-Tweed is the northernmost city in England, at the mouth of the River Tweed on the east coast, south of the border with Scotland, however, long before becaming part of England, Berwick-upon-Tweed was so Scottish as Edinburgh, Dundee or Glasgow. mafaldatkdfonseca https://padlet.com/mafaldatkdfonseca/vh4cbrj5dpq8ejqu/wish/967065304 2020-11-28 14:05:02 UTC https://padlet.com/mafaldatkdfonseca/vh4cbrj5dpq8ejqu/wish/967065304 mafaldatkdfonseca https://padlet.com/mafaldatkdfonseca/vh4cbrj5dpq8ejqu/wish/967065812 In the 1120s, it was one of only two royal burghs in Scotland, with a teeming quayside that laboured as one of the biggest ports in Britain. For almost 200 years, merchants took wool and yarn to Flanders, France and beyond, with history claiming that the port generated a quarter of the equivalent tax revenue for all of England.]]> 2020-11-28 14:05:31 UTC https://padlet.com/mafaldatkdfonseca/vh4cbrj5dpq8ejqu/wish/967065812 mafaldatkdfonseca https://padlet.com/mafaldatkdfonseca/vh4cbrj5dpq8ejqu/wish/967065930 Throughout its history, Berwick-Upon-Tweed switched between England and Scotland, alternately, a total of 13 times, having switched to the English side in the 15th century.

]]> 2020-11-28 14:05:39 UTC https://padlet.com/mafaldatkdfonseca/vh4cbrj5dpq8ejqu/wish/967065930 mafaldatkdfonseca https://padlet.com/mafaldatkdfonseca/vh4cbrj5dpq8ejqu/wish/967065965 The city has a complex sense of its own unusual identity, because although it is not a divided city, it is a place pulled in opposite directions. Some of the buildings present in the city are arguments in favor of this idea, such as the Wallace Green, a historic market that may or may not be named after the mythical Scottish warrior William Wallace and the fortified walls and ramparts built during the reign of Elizabeth I.]]> 2020-11-28 14:05:42 UTC https://padlet.com/mafaldatkdfonseca/vh4cbrj5dpq8ejqu/wish/967065965 mafaldatkdfonseca https://padlet.com/mafaldatkdfonseca/vh4cbrj5dpq8ejqu/wish/967066002 Today, there is a sense that this complex third nationality is driven not only by nuances in the dialect, attitude and self-reliance, but by the service town’s isolation and anxiety over creeping financial disparity from the rest of north-east England.]]> 2020-11-28 14:05:45 UTC https://padlet.com/mafaldatkdfonseca/vh4cbrj5dpq8ejqu/wish/967066002 mafaldatkdfonseca https://padlet.com/mafaldatkdfonseca/vh4cbrj5dpq8ejqu/wish/967126113 The names of the places reflect the geography of the border. The River Tweed, which means "border" in an ancient Celtic language, flows almost between the two nations, while the old salmon shiels, a Scots word describing antiquated huts for fishermen, dot the banks deep upriver into Scottish territory.]]> 2020-11-28 15:07:51 UTC https://padlet.com/mafaldatkdfonseca/vh4cbrj5dpq8ejqu/wish/967126113 mafaldatkdfonseca https://padlet.com/mafaldatkdfonseca/vh4cbrj5dpq8ejqu/wish/967126743 The inhabitants of Berwick-upon-Tweed say that growing up in a city it’s common to feel you are in no-man’s land, because in Newcastle they are considered Scottish, however, in Edinburgh they are English.]]> 2020-11-28 15:08:34 UTC https://padlet.com/mafaldatkdfonseca/vh4cbrj5dpq8ejqu/wish/967126743 12.ºC mafaldatkdfonseca https://padlet.com/mafaldatkdfonseca/vh4cbrj5dpq8ejqu/wish/967141958 Ana Mafalda, n.º02
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