@history_mapped: Hull 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 see the fascinating storied history of Kingston upon Hull, from the Danish Vikings settling around the Humber and Harald Hardrada's fleet sailing past in 1066, to the Cistercian monks of Meaux building the little wool port of Wyke, Edward I's King's Town, Holy Trinity and the Carthusian Charterhouse, the Pilgrimage of Grace, Beverley Gate shut in the face of Charles I and the sieges of the Civil War, the walls giving way to docks, William Wilberforce and the fight to ban slavery, whalers, emigrants and trawlers, the Zeppelins and the Blitz, the headscarf revolutionaries, the Cod Wars and the Humber Bridge, all the way to City of Culture and Hull today. #Hull #BritishHistory #HullHistory #EastYorkshire #Yorkshire