Birmingham
About Birmingham
Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands, within the wider West Midlands region, in England. It is the largest local authority district in England by population and the second-largest city in Britain – commonly referred to as the second city of the United Kingdom – with a population of 1.2 million people in the city proper in 2024. Birmingham borders the Black Country to its west and, together with the city of Wolverhampton and towns including Dudley and Solihull, forms the West Midlands conurbation. The royal town of Sutton Coldfield is incorporated within the city limits to the northeast. Birmingham's urban area has a population of 2.7 million and its wider metropolitan area has a population of 4.3 million.
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The game Cludo was invented by a Pratt from Birmingham, Anthony Pratt specifically, and it was originally called Murder at Tudor Close.
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Don't go gathering hazelnuts on September the 21st in Birmingham, because folklore says it is Devil's Nutting Day, when Satan comes out to collect his nuts.
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Priestley moved to Birmingham after leaving Leeds, and after a dinner celebrating the French Revolution a mob wrecked the place in what became known as the Priestley Riots.
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Lots of Birmingham was built on buttons, especially shell buttons made from mother of pearl.
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In 2001 the Birmingham radio station BRMB ran a contest, copied from a New Zealand website, to see who could keep their hand on a block of ordinary ice the longest.
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The Lunar Society, which included Erasmus Darwin and other scientists, used to meet when it was a full moon so they could see their way home by moonlight.
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Coordinates: 52.4800, -1.9025