Hidden Home Front: Episode 1 - Childhood Interrupted

Restoring Chamberlain’s Highbury - Tristram Hunt

Hidden Home Front: Episide 2 - Love Letters from the Front

Hidden Home Front: Episode 3 - Caring for the wounded

Beyond the battlefields the Home Front in World War I in Germany - Photographs taken by Käthe Buchler

Restoring Chamberlain's Highbury to the centre of Birmingham's future

Hunger and Hardship - Carl Chinn's Birmingham

Letters from the Western Front - Episode 1 - Keeping the fires of love alive

Free to all Aston Hall and Park - People Power in Victorian Birmingham

How Birmingham became Chamberlain's invincible fortress

The West Midlands Nail Trade

Law and order in the nineteenth-century Black Country - Policing, Prosecution and Court Procedures

Hidden Home Front: Episode 4 - The women who volunteered in WWI

Business men and the politics of the brass industry - Duncan Frankis

James Keir (1735-1820) - A Renaissance man of the Industrial Revolution

William Hazeldine (1763-1840)

A Philosophical Romance

Featured

Canalboat People: Lives on the Waterways of Birmingham

Canalboat People: Lives on the Waterways of Birmingham
Piercers, Press Girls, and Penny Capitalists

Piercers, Press Girls, and Penny Capitalists
Joseph Chamberlain

Joseph Chamberlain
Saving Aston Hall

Saving Aston Hall
Becoming a Brummie - A sound journey of a family’s move to Birmingham
Becoming a Brummie - A sound journey of a family’s move to Birmingham

In Birmingham,

Chance Brothers: A beacon of hope for the Black Country
Chance Brothers: A beacon of hope for the Black Country

In Chance Brothers, Black Country, Glass,

Two Titans, One City - Joseph Chamberlain, George Cadbury and Birmingham
Two Titans, One City - Joseph Chamberlain, George Cadbury and Birmingham

In Chamberlain, Birmingham, Cadbury, Victorian,

The Women's Suffrage Pilgrimage 1913
The Women's Suffrage Pilgrimage 1913

In Women,

Memories of the Lloyds in Birmingham today
Memories of the Lloyds in Birmingham today

In Birmingham,

Chance Brothers – Everybody's story
Chance Brothers – Everybody's story

In Glass, Black Country, Chance Brothers,

The Story of the Great Exhibition – Part 2
The Story of the Great Exhibition – Part 2

In Great Exhibition, Victorian, Glass, Industry,

Matthew Boulton helped to shape the life of eighteenth-century Birmingham
Matthew Boulton helped to shape the life of eighteenth-century Birmingham

In Lunar Society, Steam, Boulton,

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Providing a unique, open-access resource of biographies, images & contemporary documents which tell the stories of the Industrial Revolution which shaped the World as we know it today.

Revolutionary Players

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History West Midlands

Exploring the rich and fascinating past of the historic counties of Herefordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Derbyshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire. We uncover the history of the people, ideas and events that shaped the West Midlands and the world beyond.