BRITAIN IS A long country, running over 700 miles on its north-south axis. This means that our greatest national variations are not found between towns on the east and west coasts but between the north and south.
Half way up the country, and closer to Scotland than London, stands Yorkshire, solid and sturdy, and the biggest county in England. Historically Yorkshire was so far from the king in London that it had its own autonomous archbishop since before the Norman Conquest. In the Middle Ages the dukes of York were so powerful they seized the English throne from time to time.
Today Yorkshire remains proud of its sense of difference. It has produced many great writers including the Brontë sisters, Ted Hughes and even Alan Bennett. In the visual arts it was the birthplace home of Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore and of David Hockney, whose work still celebrates his native Saltaire in West Yorkshire. Moreover the British music hall and BBC television would have run out of comedians years ago if it weren’t for the dry humour of Yorkshire.
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