Women vote for the first time - British General Election 1918

The world's oldest steam engine brought to life

A difficult life - Coming of the Irish

Highbury During the First World War

Hidden Home Front: Heartbreak and hardship of World War I widows - Episode 7

'Deeds not Words' - Forgotten Birmingham Suffragettes and Suffragists

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Forgotten Birmingham suffragettes and suffragists

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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

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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

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

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Restoring Chamberlain’s Highbury - Tristram Hunt

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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.