Previous events In 'Events' Forthcoming eventsPrevious events Back to 'Centre for Midlands History and Cultures' 2024 18th April - Housing Problems and Solutions in Birmingham, 1901 - 1914: Nettlefold Courts and the "No Build Policy" Speaker28th March - The Restoration of Soho House20th March - Small Performances: investigating the typographic punches of John Baskerville (1707-75) through heritage science and practice- based research15th February - An Intellectual History of Industrialisation: The Scientific Culture of the Birmingham Library, 1779-17981st February - Shoes from Northampton, Buckles from Birmingham, and Men from the Long Eighteenth Century18th January - "Opening up": telling the stories of 1940s-1960s life at the Black Country Living Musuem 2023 7th December - Eduardo Paolozzi in the Midlands16th November - Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin and the revival of Coventry's Catholic heritage15th November - For a quart of ale is a dish for a king: brewing in the Midlands19th October - Lightning papers from Centre members and drinks reception12th October - A Disreputable History of the Newhall Estate14th September - A walk through queer history: Rose Sidgwick and memory at the University of Birmingham13th September - Family Archives Workshop @ Cadbury Research Library15th June - Photography and Electroplate in 1840s Birmingham18th May - The Hero in the Oak Tree20th April - Birmingham Brass Founders: Politics & Industry during the Age of Revolution19th April - New Directions in West Midlands History16th March - Research process re identification of some commemorative medals16th February - WW1 Birmingham nurses8th February - Conservative Birmingham19th January - The landscape of English medieval towns: some West Midlands examples 2022 17th November - Coventry's Godly Magistrate: Robert Beake (1620?- 1708), soldier, mayor and MP20th October - '2 poor Burnishers': victims of Birmingham's gilt button dispute, 1795-18009th February - Reflections on 'Forging Ahead' at the Black Country Living Museum 2021 18th November - Shakespeare before Shakespeare: politics, justice and power in early modern Warwickshire 2020 12th March - Plants, print and patronage: gardening women in the floriferous eighteenth-century13th February - Rethinking Berkswell: the twelfth century church of St John the Baptist, Berkswell16th January - Researching Wroxeter: a Roman city and its hinterland through time, 2019 12th December - Centre for West Midlands History Christmas Party 30th November - Birmingham History Day 2019 14th November - Rivers, Wells and Waterworks: Setting the sanitary scene in Birmingham, 1842-1872 9th November - Black Country History Day 2019 17th October - 'Am I Not a Woman and a Sister': West Midlands Women Abolitionists' Perceptions of and Connections to Black Slave Women from the West Indies, 1787-1860 13th June - Proclamation and Persuasion: Marketing the Birmingham cut-nail trade during the nineteenth century 16th May - Museum artefacts and contemporary objects: Investigating craft skills of the 18th century enamel trade 11th April - That midwives' midwifery is bad, daily proofs are constantly occurring': Midwifery in Birmingham and Environs, 1794 -1881 2018 29th November - Sending Parcels, Salting Pigs and Sidestepping Busy-bodies: West Midlands homes and families during the Great War 24th November - Birmingham History Day 15th November - The Politics of the West Midlands in the First World War 10th November - Black Country History Day 25th October - 'By Fire and Paint': the Birmingham Suffrage Story 24th May - Viewing the city: images of the Midlands, 1780-1880 3rd May - Constructing Mary Prince: a slave woman's story and the Birmingham connection in the early-nineteenth century 22nd March - What we need is a bit of Goodwill: The Rubery Owen Company Magazine in 1946 16th March - The imprint of steam: the steam engine in popular culture 13th March - John Baskerville: the stop-start career of an 18th century entrepreneur 8th March - Family Fortunes in the Industrial Revolution: the Phipsons of Birmingham 2017 7th December - John Baskerville: Art and Industry of the Enlightenment 25th November - Birmingham History Day 2017 16th November - Birmingham's Hill family: a philanthropic dynasty? 6th November - Women's history roundtable 1st November - John Baskerville Book Launch 26th October - All roads lead to Birmingham: the geopolitics of the Midlands c. 1570-1583 7th October - Black Country History Day 5th October - Fakes, forgeries and the birth of mass production in the European watch industry, 1750-1820 16th March - The Mercian Minster: is there more to it? 25th February - The Kingdom of Mercia: People, Places and Things in Anglo-Saxon England 16th February - Wedgwood's Development of Jasper Cameos and Birmingham Mounters 30th January - Bawdy Bridgnorth 2016 14th December - A Tour through the Great Exhibition of 1851 8th December - Book launch: Birmingham 850 26th November - Birmingham History Day 21st November - Mappa Mundi: Hereford's Curious Map 17th November - Bicentenary of James Watt at Birmingham Museums Trust 7th November - Warriors, Warlords and Saints: some themes in Mercian history 24th October - Making Sense of an Industrial Town: Birmingham: 'The City of a Thousand Trades' 13th October - An Introduction to the Papers of James Watt and Family 8th October - Black Country History Day 2016 3rd October - Industrial Development of Ironbridge during the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries 28th-29th July - James Watt symposium 2015 10th December - Centre for West Midlands History Christmas Social 7th December - Connecting people, place and things in Sir Hans Sloane's botanical collection 23rd November - Caribee Island: Inside Wolverhampton's Most Infamous Neighbourhood 21st November - Birmingham History Day 19th November - 'Inservi Deo et Laetare' (Serve God and be cheerful): the colourful history of the choral foundation at Lichfield Cathedral in the Georgian era 9th November - Avarice and Fraud: Later medieval merchants and debt 5th November - Astley Castle: Three Queens of England, George Eliot and the Stirling Prize for Architecture 19th October - The Laurence Cadbury Collection at Selly Manor 17th October - Black Country History Day 14th July - Ways to Remember: The First World War through the lens of Florence Camm's war memorial windows 3rd June - Newman Brothers Coffin Works, Birmingham. An introduction to a newly opened heritage event 12th May - Fortunes of war: the West Midlands at the time of Waterloo 29th April - The Birmingham Book Club, 1745 - 1900: an influential but little-known society at the heart of Birmingham life 14th April - To the Bull Ring! Policing and the early Chartist Protests in Birmingham 14th April - To the Bull Ring! Policing and the early Chartist protests in Birmingham 23rd March - Commerce, civilization and Christianity: Sierra Leone company policy, c. 1791-1807 14th-15th March - The Beauty of Letters text, type and communication in the eighteenth century 10th March - Malcolm X and Marshall Street, Smethwick: 50 years on 10th March - Malcolm X and Marshall Street, Smethwick: 50 Years on 9th March - Museums and academe: from Maiden Castle to Thomas Hardy via Liverpool 25th February - Arts and crafts children's books: Birmingham women illustrators 23rd February - A cabinet of curiosities: Birmingham as the toy-shop of Europe 10th February - Black Poppies - Britain's Black Community and the Great War 29th January - Conservation and research of the Staffordshire Hoard 13th January - Beyond Boulton: the archaeology of Birmingham's industries 2014 9th December - Ecology and politics in pre-modern eastern Eurasia 8th December - The urban teenager: work, play and a final resting place 24th November - Voices from beyond the grave: how coroners' rolls can inform our understanding of Warwickshire life in the late Middle Ages 10th November - 'Bewitched, bothered, and bewildered' (Ella Fitzgerald): researching the poor law 4th November - Bringing history to life 18th October - Black Country History Day 7th October - Archaeology and the natural environment 7th October - Scotland and the British Army, 1707-1750 7th October - Ways to Remember: The First World War through the lens of Florence Camm's war memorial windows 6th October - Empire, violence and the making of early colonial South Asia, c.1753-1817 21st June - Art production in the Jewellery Quarter: past and present 18th June - The contemporary restoration of Hagley Park 2nd June - Coalbrookdale: an eighteenth-century landscape of philanthropy 19th May - A Rutland puzzle resolved: the county's petition in 1641 15th May - Harry Northwood: from Stourbridge to the USA 7th May - Compensating the Victims of the Birmingham 15th April - Elizabeth I and the "Monstrous Regiment" of Women in Tudor and Stuart England 10th April - An important papier maché box presented by the manufacturer Henry Clay to the Birmingham Overseers of the Poor in 1784 24th March - Coming to America: Rubery Owen, a Black Country Business and the Drive for Efficiency 21st March - Back to back and Up the Yard: Life and Death in Back-Street Birmingham, 1880 – 1960 19th March - The Birmingham Gun Trade - An Introduction 11th March - Disgracing the Raj: white and mixed race prostitution in Colonial India 10th March - I could have guessed it was full of water, can I have my money back": Town and Castle ditches from the Midlands – why it is worth doing the environmental archaeology 24th February - Manuscript Books for Medieval Midlands Readers 20th February - Joseph Wright of Derby: the Philosopher's Painter 10th February - Transport and fuel in the West Midlands in the late 17th century: Andrew Yarranton and the Stour Navigation 27th January - Climate Change, Warfare and Ecocide in the Early Fourteenth-century British Isles 14th January - Fishing, ploughing and pesky pirates: people, power and personalities in a coastal manor ca.1270-1350 2013 10th December - John Baskerville and the power of print 25th November - 'It's all a Gas': the development and provision of household technology in the Black Country 1800-1939 23rd November - Birmingham History Day 12th November - The Napoleon of the Caucus' the career of Francix Schnadhorst, Britain's first professional political organiser 11th November - The Staffordshire Hoard: An Insider's View 28th October - 'It is generally thought that a city garden is an impossibility': exploring urban garden provision in five nineteenth-century English towns 19th October - Black Country History Day 14th October - Nineteenth century prison provision for juveniles in Birmingham 30th September - Primary Sources for Local and Regional History held in Special Collections 20th May - Creating a medieval history gallery 2nd May - Getting Grants, Getting Published and Staying Sane? Life After the PhD 19th March - The life and times of William Hutton: Birmingham's first historian 1723-1815 18th March - 'It's all a Gas': the development and provision of household technology in the Black Country 1800-1939 12th March - Birmingham and Beyond seminar series 4th March - The place of the dead: territory and identity in the early modern landscape 18th February - Accomplished ladies or professional women? Women in art and design in Birmingham in the late 19th and early 20th centuries 4th February - The Bull Ring, an iconic Birmingham landmark: the popularity of 19th century topographical views 21st January - Brilliant with all colours: Vesuvius and the evolution of it's image 7th January - Deserted villages visited - new interdisciplinary approaches 2012 24th November - Birmingham History Day 2012 13th November - Birmingham and Beyond research seminar 7th November - Launch of the Baskerville Society 25th October - Friends of the Centre for West Midlands Research Seminar 17th October - Eric Hopkins Memorial Lecture 13th October - Black Country History Day 2012 6th October - Midlands Maidens: Women in the Eighteenth and Early-Nineteenth Century 23rd June - The Birmingham Jewellery Quarter: Past Present and Future 30th March-1st April - The Emergence of the West Midlands: Culture, Communities and Change 1779-1918