Discovering the Hidden Home Front: World War 1 - Childhood Interrupted - Episode 1

Restoring Chamberlain’s Highbury - Tristram Hunt

Discovering the Hidden Home Front: Love Letters from the Front - Episode 2

Discovering the Hidden Home Front: Worcestershire in World War I - Caring for the Wounded - Episode 3

Beyond the battlefields the Home Front in World War I in Germany - Photographs taken by Käthe Buchler

Restoring Chamberlain's Highbury to the centre of Birmingham's future

Hunger and Hardship - Carl Chinn's Birmingham

Letters from the Western Front - Episode 1 - Keeping the fires of love alive

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Hunger and Hardship - Carl Chinn's Birmingham

Hunger and Hardship - Carl Chinn's Birmingham
Carl Chinn

Carl Chinn
The story of the River Tame

The story of the River Tame
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James Watt

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Becoming a Brummie - A sound journey of a family’s move to Birmingham

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The Peaky Blinders

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

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John Baskerville

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The story of Iron Bridge, Shropshire: Part 1

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Chance Brothers – Everybody's story

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

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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

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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.