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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Reflections on the surface - Illuminating the Severn's History

Reflections on the surface - Illuminating the Severn's History
William Withering - Physician, botanist and mineralogist

William Withering - Physician, botanist and mineralogist
Highbury During the First World War

Highbury During the First World War
Late Eighteenth Century Birmingham - A history in maps

Late Eighteenth Century Birmingham - A history in maps
James Watt's workshop - Inventing the modern world
James Watt's workshop - Inventing the modern world

In Birmingham, Watt, Lunar Society,

From Darlaston to the Somme
From Darlaston to the Somme

In Black Country, Birmingham, World War 1, Staffordshire, Carl Chinn,

Speeches that changed Britain
Speeches that changed Britain
Oratory in Birmingham

In Birmingham, Chamberlain,

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

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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,

Birmingham: Workshop of the World
Birmingham: Workshop of the World

In Birmingham, Civic Gospel,

Speeches that changed Britain: Oratory in Birmingham
Speeches that changed Britain: Oratory in 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.