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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Stoke-on-Trent
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(250,000 in 1991) City on the river Trent, centre of the Staffordshire *Potteries. It derives from the amalgamation in 1910 of the *Five Towns plus Fenton, which together were given city status in 1925. Within the boundaries of the modern city are the factories of *Doulton, *Minton, *Spode and *Wedgwood. Each has a museum of its own wares, while the city's Museum and Art Gallery displays an outstanding general collection of pottery and porcelain. The Chatterley Whitfield Mining Museum at Tunstall uses both surface and underground areas of a redundant pit to reveal the everyday life of a coal mine.
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