Worcester Moments: River, Religion and Royalty

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The Birmingham Macbeth - Shakespeare and the Shelbys

Interview with Katherine Scheil, Professor of English at the University of Minnesota & Director of the Citizen Shakespeare Project

The Hereford Cathedral Chained Library: A unique survivor

Mothers who waved goodbye: Evacuation in World War II

Launch of Book 'The house where the Weather was Made' - A Biography of Chamberlain's Highbury - 25th October 2019

James Watt and slavery: The untold story

Trailer - James Watt and slavery: The untold story

History of women in 100 objects: Royal Shakespeare Theatre

PRE-ORDER SPECIAL ONLY £15*: The House where the Weather was Made

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An invitation to Everybody

History of women in 100 objects: Lady Curzon's Peacock Dress

Bovril, Whisky and Gravediggers: The Spanish Flu Pandemic comes to the West Midlands

Vittoria Street: Encapsulating the Jewellery Quarter

Professor Tobias Döring explains that the Shakespeare Library has holdings in no less than 93 languages

Professor Tobias Döring reflects on the relationship between Birmingham, Shakespeare and Germany

Professor Ewan Fernie introduces the only Shakespeare First Folio in the world owned by the people

Professor Ewan Fernie introduces the 'Everything to Everybody' project

Beautiful Birmingham: Art and Welfare

A Shakespearean Commonwealth

Birmingham and Europe

Shakespeare, Nonconformity and Diversity

Shakespeare, Inclusion and Working-Class Communities

Bovril, Whisky and Gravediggers

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

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

The Power to change the world

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

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Birmingham brass makers: Cut throat capitalism in the Industrial Revolution

Mary Macarthur 1880-1921 The Working Woman’s Champion

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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Two Titans, One City

Two Titans, One City

Joseph Chamberlain and George Cadbury

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Tristram Hunt talks about George Dawson

Tristram Hunt talks about George Dawson
Regency Birmingham - A history of maps continued

Regency Birmingham - A history of maps continued
Hidden Home Front - Episode 5: How kitchens became battlefields in First World War

Hidden Home Front - Episode 5: How kitchens became battlefields in First World War
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, Shakespeare, Everything to Everybody, Ewan Fernie, George Dawson,

Reginald Mitchell: Father of the Spitfire
Reginald Mitchell: Father of the Spitfire

In Spitfire,

Hidden Home Front: Episode 3 - Caring for the wounded
Hidden Home Front: Episode 3 - Caring for the wounded

In World War 1, Worcestershire,

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,

The Story of the Great Exhibition – Part 2
The Story of the Great Exhibition – Part 2

In Great Exhibition, Victorian, Glass, Industry,

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

In Glass, Cathedrals, 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.