80 A Deadly Tug of War! Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland

In this episode we stride around the Elizabethan battlements of a town held ready for war!

Berwick-upon-Tweed is a place packed to bursting with thousands of years of rich history.

Celtic Britons made it their home, followed by the Romans and the Anglo-Saxons.

It was a wealthy, flourishing port before any of the modern nation states – England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland – even existed.

Sitting on the border of what became Scotland and England it was coveted and fought over in a deadly tug of war lasting hundreds of years. It’s a place that sharply reminds us, that in the British Isles it’s more often than not the case that local rather than national identities have the deepest roots.

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