Discovering the Hidden Home Front: World War 1 - Childhood Interrupted - Episode 1

Restoring Chamberlain’s Highbury - Tristram Hunt

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

Discovering the Hidden Home Front: Worcestershire in World War I - Caring for the Wounded - Episode 3

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

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Mappa Mundi - A Window Into The Medieval Mind

Mappa Mundi - A Window Into The Medieval Mind
Warriors, Warlords and Saints

Warriors, Warlords and Saints

The Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Mercia

By John Hunt

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Joseph Chamberlain

Joseph Chamberlain
Birmingham

Birmingham

The Workshop of the World

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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,

The Peaky Blinders
The Peaky Blinders

In Peaky Blinders, Birmingham, Carl Chinn,

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

In Spitfire,

'Iron-Mad' Wilkinson
'Iron-Mad' Wilkinson

In Industry,

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

In Birmingham,

The Birmingham Political Machine: Winning Elections for Joseph Chamberlain
The Birmingham Political Machine: Winning Elections for Joseph Chamberlain

In Birmingham, Chamberlain,

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300 years at the heart – The Church that became a Cathedral
300 years at the heart – The Church that became a Cathedral

In Cathedrals,

The Story of the Great Exhibition – Part 1
The Story of the Great Exhibition – Part 1

In Great Exhibition, Black Country, Industry, Victorian,

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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.