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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Canalboat People: Lives on the Waterways of Birmingham

Canalboat People: Lives on the Waterways of Birmingham
William Withering - Physician, botanist and mineralogist

William Withering - Physician, botanist and mineralogist
The story of the River Tame

The story of the River Tame
Birmingham Town Hall with Carl Chinn

Birmingham Town Hall with Carl Chinn
James Watt's workshop - Inventing the modern world
James Watt's workshop - Inventing the modern world

In Birmingham, Watt, Lunar Society,

A difficult life - Coming of the Irish
A difficult life - Coming of the Irish

In Birmingham, Carl Chinn,

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

In Birmingham, Peaky Blinders,

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

In Industry,

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,

Restoring and celebrating Divine Beauty of Burne-Jones windows - Birmingham Cathedral
Restoring and celebrating Divine Beauty of Burne-Jones windows - Birmingham Cathedral

In Cathedrals, Glass, Art, Birmingham,

The story of the Iron Bridge - The birth of The bridge
The story of the Iron Bridge - The birth of The bridge

In Ironbridge, Shropshire,

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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

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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.