History West Midlands

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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

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

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James Watt (1736-1819) A Life in 50 Objects

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Birmingham brass makers: Cut throat capitalism in the Industrial Revolution

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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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Spanish Flu epidemic comes to the West Midlands (1918-1920)

Tristram Hunt talks about George Dawson

Unlocking the World's first great Shakespeare Library for all

Birmingham Town Hall with Carl Chinn

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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.

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