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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Mappa Mundi - A Window Into The Medieval Mind

Mappa Mundi - A Window Into The Medieval Mind
Carl Chinn

Carl Chinn
Highbury During the First World War

Highbury During the First World War
Free to all Aston Hall and Park - People Power in Victorian Birmingham

Free to all Aston Hall and Park - People Power in Victorian Birmingham
James Watt's workshop - Inventing the modern world
James Watt's workshop - Inventing the modern world

In Birmingham, Watt, Lunar Society,

Chance Brothers: A beacon of hope for the Black Country
Chance Brothers: A beacon of hope for the Black Country

In Chance Brothers, Black Country, Glass,

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,

John Baskerville
John Baskerville

In Baskerville, Printing, Birmingham, Workshop, Industry, Art, Soho, Word, Lunar Society, Places to Visit,

Memories of the Lloyds in Birmingham today
Memories of the Lloyds in Birmingham today

In Birmingham,

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

In Glass, Black Country, Chance Brothers,

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

In Cathedrals, Glass, Art, Birmingham,

Joseph Chamberlain - An Icon of Birmingham
Joseph Chamberlain - An Icon of Birmingham

In Chamberlain, 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

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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.