I recently went to the last town in the world that still speaks Old English and I was shocked by how much I could speak and understand. Well okay, it’s not exactly Old English, it’s a rare language ...

Carved roughly from limestone, his large shoulders hunched under a bright-red jacket, the likeness of the man known as the Old General ... mid-2010s, the English Midlands city, once powered ...

The Old General watched over Nottingham ... but by the mid-2010s the English Midlands city, once powered by coal mining and manufacturing, had reinvented itself. Modern flats dotted the streets.