History West Midlands

History of women in 100 objects: Royal Shakespeare Theatre

PRE-ORDER SPECIAL ONLY £15*: The House where the Weather was Made

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An invitation to Everybody

History of women in 100 objects: Lady Curzon's Peacock Dress

Bovril, Whisky and Gravediggers: The Spanish Flu Pandemic comes to the West Midlands

Vittoria Street: Encapsulating the Jewellery Quarter

Professor Tobias Döring explains that the Shakespeare Library has holdings in no less than 93 languages

Professor Tobias Döring reflects on the relationship between Birmingham, Shakespeare and Germany

Professor Ewan Fernie introduces the only Shakespeare First Folio in the world owned by the people

Professor Ewan Fernie introduces the 'Everything to Everybody' project

Beautiful Birmingham: Art and Welfare

A Shakespearean Commonwealth

Birmingham and Europe

Shakespeare, Nonconformity and Diversity

Shakespeare, Inclusion and Working-Class Communities

Bovril, Whisky and Gravediggers

The Spanish Flu Pandemic comes to the West Midlands (1918-1920)

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Vittoria Street - Encapsulating the Jewellery Quarter

The Chamberlain Memorial Clock

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

The Power to change the world

James Watt (1736-1819) A Life in 50 Objects

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Birmingham brass makers: Cut throat capitalism in the Industrial Revolution

The Black Country: A History in 100 Objects

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Mary Macarthur 1880-1921 The Working Woman’s Champion

RIGHTING THE WRONG

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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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Everything to Everybody: Birmingham's Shakespeare Memorial Library

William Withering - Physician, botanist and mineralogist

'My criminal ancestors' - Carl Chinn and the Real Peaky Blinders

Birmingham Town Hall with Carl Chinn

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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.

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