Tag: Town twinning

• Twinned with Europe, voted Remain? Town twinning and the Brexit vote

  

  British towns have 1,445 recorded twinnings, 79% of them with towns in the EU. I checked whether the places with European twins voted Remain in 2016. Comparing like with like, they voted about the same as similar places.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Brexit, Chance test, cities, elections, Europe, Present day, Town twinning, UK, Wikidata

• Who is your town twinned with?

  

  I drew all 29,437 twin town and sister city links on Wikidata as arcs on one map: a post-war European habit that peaked in 1990, reached across the Iron Curtain and out to Japan and China, and lost dozens of Russian links after 2022.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Britain, cities, Europe, Flow map, Government, Place search, Town twinning, Twentieth century, Wikidata, World