Look on Amazon if you don't live near the Black Country. Most bookshops will order anything for you. Kate Fletcher is the editor.I would love one if it came out in print. Would certainly cause a few laughs at our lunch club
Herewith are details of the next Friends of the CMHC seminar (online):
“Opening up”: telling the stories of 1940s-1960s life at the Black Country Living Musuem
Dr Simon Briercliffe
Thursday 18 January 2024
7:00 – 8:30pm
In 2023, the Black Country Living Museum in Dudley opened the first buildings in its £30m Forging Ahead project. The new shops, homes and public buildings tell the story of life in the post-war period in this West Midlands region. This talk will reflect on the opening of the new areas of the museum, and the challenges and benefits of telling stories of everyday life, industry, immigration and other subjects through living history interpretation.
Dr Simon Briercliffe completed his PhD on the Irish in nineteenth-century Wolverhampton at the University of Birmingham in 2022 and is now an Honorary Research Fellow at the University. He is also a researcher at the Black Country Living Museum, covering the whole of Black Country history with a recent focus on the post-World War Two era. His first book, Forging Ahead: Austerity to Prosperity in the Black Country 1945-1968 was published in 2021, and his second, 50 Years of Bangla Brummies, in 2023, part of a community history of the Bangladeshi community in Birmingham.
TicketSource (no charge) for Zoom meeting
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/friends-of-the-centre-for-midlands-history-and-cultures
Two centuries of boat building.
Next live Virtual Heritage Group features talk by Geoff Taylor on the history of a boatbuilding family that had its origins in the Black Country in the early 19C. Geoff is the great-grandson of Joseph Taylor who had a boatyard at Herbert’s Park, Darlaston in the late 1800s. ( via Zoom. No charge for members or non-members - email [email protected] for Zoom log in details…Normally placed on YouTube a couple of days later.)
15 January 2024 at 7.30 pm
And the exhibition is in Birmingham. 13 to 24 February at the RBSA Gallery, St Paul's Square, Birmingham.Just published, an interesting book on the Black Country by the late photographer Phil Loach.
Black Country photographer celebrated at exhibition
The everyday life of Black Country people is celebrated in an exhibition by a newspaper photographer.www.bbc.co.uk
Great series of photographs!Just published, an interesting book on the Black Country by the late photographer Phil Loach.
Black Country photographer celebrated at exhibition
The everyday life of Black Country people is celebrated in an exhibition by a newspaper photographer.www.bbc.co.uk