The 1924 Ladywood Election: Neville Chamberlain faces Oswald Mosley

Roman Wroxeter – a place of myth & romance

Shock and Awe: The Roman Invasion of the West Midlands

Britain's Pompeii - The Roman town of Wroxeter

Black Country women civic pioneers

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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Mary Macarthur: The Working Woman's Champion

Mary Macarthur: The Working Woman's Champion
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
The Smethwick Engine - Built to James Watt's Design in 1779

The Smethwick Engine - Built to James Watt's Design in 1779
Saved! Matthew Boulton's family Baskerville Bible

Saved! Matthew Boulton's family Baskerville Bible
Hidden Home Front: Prisoners of War - Episode 6
Hidden Home Front: Prisoners of War - Episode 6

In Worcestershire, World War 1,

The first great Shakespeare Library - A forgotten Birmingham story
The first great Shakespeare Library - A forgotten Birmingham story

In Birmingham, Civic Gospel, Shakespeare, Everything to Everybody, Ewan Fernie, George Dawson,

Two Titans, One City - Joseph Chamberlain, George Cadbury and Birmingham
Two Titans, One City - Joseph Chamberlain, George Cadbury and Birmingham

In Chamberlain, Birmingham, Cadbury, Victorian,

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

In World War 1, Worcestershire,

The story of Iron Bridge, Shropshire: Part 1
The story of Iron Bridge, Shropshire: Part 1

In Ironbridge, Shropshire,

Unique views of Birmingham Cathedral and beautiful window
Unique views of Birmingham Cathedral and beautiful window

In Cathedrals, Birmingham,

The Lunar Society Trail: Following the men who made the modern world
The Lunar Society Trail: Following the men who made the modern world

In Lunar Society, Birmingham, Enlightenment,

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

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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.