History of women in 100 objects: Home canning machine

History of women in 100 objects: Three-legged milk stool

History of women in 100 objects: Powick Asylum records

Stories of women’s everyday lives in Coventry between 1850 and 1950

Beatrice Cadbury - the heiress who gave away her inheritance

The story of the Birmingham brass trade

Tristram Hunt talks about George Dawson

Unlocking the World's first great Shakespeare Library for all

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A difficult life - Coming of the Irish

Highbury During the First World War

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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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

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

The West Midlands Nail Trade

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

Hunger and Hardship - Carl Chinn's Birmingham

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

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
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Tristram Hunt talks about George Dawson
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Regency Birmingham - A history of maps continued
How Birmingham became Chamberlain's invincible fortress

How Birmingham became Chamberlain's invincible fortress
Women vote for the first time - British General Election 1918
Women vote for the first time - British General Election 1918

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From Darlaston to the Somme

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Reginald Mitchell: Father of the Spitfire
Reginald Mitchell: Father of the Spitfire

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Hidden Home Front: Episode 3 - Caring for the wounded
Hidden Home Front: Episode 3 - Caring for the wounded

In World War 1, Worcestershire,

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The story of Iron Bridge, Shropshire: Part 1

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Unique views of Birmingham Cathedral and beautiful window

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Birmingham: Workshop of the World
Birmingham: Workshop of the World

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Joseph Chamberlain - An Icon of Birmingham
Joseph Chamberlain - An Icon of Birmingham

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Revolutionary Players

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

Published by History West Midlands

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.