The British Isles are geographically separate from mainland Europe but we have long centuries of links: trade, population, ideas, scholarship, language, religion, performing & visual arts, literature, architecture, food, sport, technology, politics, conflict and friendship.
Join me to explore the sites and physical evidence of these connections in Leeds city centre and to find out just how varied and intense our interactions have been – and still are.
Meet beside 'The Dortmund Drayman' statue in Dortmund Square, between the St John's centre and The Headrow.
This tour is priced so that it’s ‘two for the price of one’ compared with my other public tours. Apart from the Eventbrite fee, all takings will go to support ‘Leeds for Europe’.
Leeds for Europe campaigns for the UK to have the closest possible relationship with the European Union, including by eventually re-joining the European Union. The group identifies, exposes and publicises the adverse consequences of Brexit as they arise, particularly highlighting the impacts on communities and businesses in Leeds and surrounding areas. It champions our European identity and the values of the European Union, including the promotion of peace, prosperity and the environment. It also defends the rights of European Union citizens in the UK and of UK citizens living in the European Union and promotes a greater understanding of the UK’s historic, present and future interdependence with the other countries of Europe.
