27-10-2017 17:30 via theguardian.com

Let’s move to Lincoln: a small city with chutzpah

Lincoln’s used to dusting itself down. That’s the thing about being 2,000 years old: you’ve seen it all beforeWhat’s going for it? For more than 200 years, until 1548, Lincoln Cathedral was the tallest building in the world, the skyscraper of its day. Which tells you all you need to know about this small city in the (mostly) flat lands. It’s got chutzpah. At the time, Lincoln was England’s third city, rich on the cloth trade with Flanders. When its cathed
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