Shaka - The King of the Zulus

Shock and Awe: The Roman Invasion of the West Midlands

Britain's Pompeii - The Roman town of Wroxeter

Highbury Restoration

Black Country women civic pioneers

Saved! Matthew Boulton's family Baskerville Bible

How Birmingham and Shakespeare won the American Midwest

Birmingham's Ambassador to America: George Dawson

Great News for Birmingham: 'Everything to Everybody' Project Wins Major Lottery Fund Grant

Maggie Andrews: Foster mothers - Episode 4

Maggie Andrews: The mother's who accompanied children - Episode 3

Maggie Andrews: The mother's who waved goodbye - Episode 2

Righting the Wrong - Mary Macarthur 1880-1921: The Working Woman's Champion

Beyond 'The Peaky Blinders': The real Oswald Mosley

Spanish flu comes to Birmingham

The Birmingham Macbeth - Shakespeare and the Shelbys

Interview with Katherine Scheil, Professor of English at the University of Minnesota & Director of the Citizen Shakespeare Project

The Hereford Cathedral Chained Library: A unique survivor

James Watt and slavery: The untold story

Trailer - James Watt and slavery: The untold story

History of women in 100 objects: Royal Shakespeare Theatre

The House where the Weather was Made

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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

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

Birmingham brass makers: Cut throat capitalism in the Industrial Revolution

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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George Dawson - The Lost Prophet

George Dawson - The Lost Prophet
Birmingham land earmarked for new world-class cultural centre - due to open in 2021

Birmingham land earmarked for new world-class cultural centre - due to open in 2021
Joseph Chamberlain

Joseph Chamberlain
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

In Birmingham,

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

In World War 1, Worcestershire, Women,

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

In Spitfire,

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

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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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The Story of the Great Exhibition – Part 2
The Story of the Great Exhibition – Part 2

In Great Exhibition, Victorian, Glass, Industry,

300 years at the heart: The Church that became a Cathedral - Audio tour
300 years at the heart: The Church that became a Cathedral - Audio tour

In Glass, Cathedrals, 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.