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

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

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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Hunger and Hardship - Carl Chinn's Birmingham

Hunger and Hardship - Carl Chinn's Birmingham
William Withering - Physician, botanist and mineralogist

William Withering - Physician, botanist and mineralogist
'My criminal ancestors' - Carl Chinn and the Real Peaky Blinders

'My criminal ancestors' - Carl Chinn and the Real Peaky Blinders
Birmingham Town Hall with Carl Chinn

Birmingham Town Hall with Carl Chinn
An Industrial hive: Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter
An Industrial hive: Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter

In Carl Chinn, Birmingham,

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

In Birmingham, Civic Gospel,

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,

The Women's Suffrage Pilgrimage 1913
The Women's Suffrage Pilgrimage 1913

In Women,

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

In Ironbridge, Shropshire,

Chance Brothers – Everybody's story
Chance Brothers – Everybody's story

In Glass, Black Country, Chance Brothers,

Matthew Boulton helped to shape the life of eighteenth-century Birmingham
Matthew Boulton helped to shape the life of eighteenth-century Birmingham

In Lunar Society, Steam, Boulton,

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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.