Hull or Kingston upon Hull is a british city situated on the north bank of the Humber estuary. It is surrounded by the East Riding of Yorkshire, but is a unitary authority. The council is today called the Hull city council and refers to the city as Hull.

Unusual for an ancient English city hull was granted City status in 1299, Hull has no cathedral, it does however have the Holy Trinity church, the largest parish church in England

Hull has an extensive museum and visitors quarter which includes Willberforce house, Hull and east riding museum, The Ferns art gallery, The Maritime museum, Streetlife transport museum, The sprun lightship, the Artic Corsair and the Deep

Hull also features the university of Hull and a branch of the University of Lincoln.

Hull is the home of Queens gardens which is a set of Gardens found in the center of the city. They are built on the area that used to be the Queens docks. Its dominated by a large column, upon stands the statue of William Wilberforce, behind which is Hull college. At the other end of Queens gardens there is Victoria square that leads to Princess quay shopping centre. Queens gardens are pretty well used, particularly by the student population chilling out on the grass during the summer.

Hull is also the home of the Humber bridge, which is now the 3rd longest single span suspension bridge in the world, but for a long time, the Humber bridge was in first place.

Hull is the only city in the country to have its own independent telephone network, Kingston communications, with a distinctive cream telephone boxes. Kingston communications was formed in 1910 as a municipal department by the council and it remains the only locally operated telephone company in the UK- although KC is now privatised, kingston upon Hull has one of the most advanced computer networks in the world, offering the fastest ADSL connection to its customers in the country.

Hull takes its status and name as the "Kings Towne on the river Hull" from the Royal charter granted april 1 1299 by King Edward 1 who needed a northern port to supply his campaigns in scotland. The 700+ year old charter remains preserved in the Guildhall archives.

In 1440 the city became a county corporate known as Hullshire.

The Cities association with royalty was broken in 1642 when Hull governor Sire John hotham declared the Parliamentarian cause and later refused King Charles 1 entry into the city and asses to its large arsenal.He was declared a traitor and dispite a parliamentarian pardon was later executed. This series of events was the precipitate the English Civil war since Charles 1st felt obliged to respond to the "insult" by besieging the city, and event that plead a critical role in triggering open conflict between parliamentarian and royalist causes.

Hull developed a british trade port with mainland Europe, Whaling until the mid 19th centaury and deep sea fishing until the anglo icelandic cold war 1975- 1976 which resolution lead to a major decline in hulls economic fortune, Hull remains a major port dealing in mostly bulk commodities and commercial road traffic by P&O ferries to rotterdam and zeebrugge on mainland Europe. Hull still remains the UK centre for food processing.

William Wilberforce, the leading slavery abolitionist, was born in hull in 1759, baptised at Holy Trinity church and represented the city as its MP until his death in 1833

Joseph Malet Lambert a british education reformer who proposed universal education as an economic stimulus was born in Hull in 1853

Thomas R. Ferens philanthropist, industrialist and Member of Parliament for East Hull from 1906-1918 proved to be one of the city's greatest benefactors, endowing among others university college, the Ferens art gallery and east park in 1927

Amy Johnson the pioneering woman flyer who was the first person to fly solo from England to Australia was born in Hull in 1903

Hull's administrative status has changed several times. It had been county borough for many decades. but from the 1974 to the 1996 it was part of Humberside and upon the abolition of that county it was made a unitary authority.