To fête the 70th year of Queen Elizabeth’s reign, several towns – and a few villages – are to be granted the royal right to call themselves cities.
- Professor of English Regional History, University of Nottingham
There is nothing stopping a place in the UK declaring itself a city – but most campaigns covet a royal charter.
In September 1917, 22 German World War I prisoners held at a camp just outside Nottingham, managed to escape.
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