History West Midlands

A difficult life - Coming of the Irish

Highbury During the First World War

Meet Birmingham's lost philosopher - George Dawson (1821-1876)

Hidden Home Front: Heartbreak and hardship of World War I widows - Episode 7

'Deeds not Words' - Forgotten Birmingham Suffragettes and Suffragists

Birmingham's Gun Trade: Did war shape the Industrial Revolution?

Forgotten Birmingham suffragettes and suffragists

Words and Deeds - Birmingham Suffragists and Suffragettes 1832-1918

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Hidden Home Front - Episode 5: How kitchens became battlefields in First World War

A Philosophical Romance

William Hazeldine (1763-1840)

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

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

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

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

The West Midlands Nail Trade

How Birmingham became Chamberlain's invincible fortress

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

Hunger and Hardship - Carl Chinn's Birmingham

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

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

Hidden Home Front: Episode 3 - Caring for the wounded

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

Restoring Chamberlain’s Highbury - Tristram Hunt

Hidden Home Front: Episode 1 - Childhood Interrupted

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Reflections on the surface - Illuminating the Severn's History

Warriors, Warlords and Saints

The Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Mercia

By John Hunt

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Highbury During the First World War

Birmingham Town Hall with Carl Chinn

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