The January Friends of the Centre for West Midlands History newsletter is now available.

Articles include:
- A report on a visit to the Avery Museum
- An insiders view of the Staffordshire Hoard
- Birmingham History Day report
- MA West Midlands History - a recollection
- Biography, history and the shaping of Birmingham report
- The church that Louisa Ann Ryland built
- Black Country history day report
- Forthcoming events