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Midlands

Area of central England corresponding roughly to the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia. The East Midlands comprises Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, and Nottinghamshire. The West Midlands covers the metropolitan district of West Midlands created from parts of Staffordshire, Warwickshire, and Worcestershire, and split into the metropolitan boroughs of Dudley, Sandwell, Coventry, Birmingham, Walsall, Solihull, and Wolverhampton; and (often included) the South Midlands comprising Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Oxfordshire.



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They were people of liberal views on the whole, firm believers in learning and localism, and in these beliefs they were not so different from their homologues elsewhere in Europe, whether the Honoratioren of the German hometowns or the Dissenting city fathers of the English Midlands.
The Pride of Place: Local Memories and Political Culture in ... by Nord, Philip / Journal of Social History
THE city of Coventry in the English Midlands has had a long and honourable tradition in peace building, since its 14th century cathedral was destroyed in 1940.
Coventry continues role of peace-making by Henderson, Michael / For A Change
John Newton underwent a conversion experience, gave up the sea, was ordained to the Anglican priesthood, and, until his death in 1807, served parishes in the English Midlands and London.
John Newton and the English Evangelical Tradition by Cunningham, Lawrence S. / Commonweal
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