Tuesday 9 November 2010

Next meeting!

Centre for West Midlands History Research Group
Research Showcase
an evening with...

Ray Shill:
Iron Making in Birmingham

and

John Townley:
The Crank Company and Their Customers

Thursday 11 November
6:30-8:30pm
Lecture Room 3 (1st Floor), the Arts Building
University of Birmingham
Please confirm your attendance via return of this email (CWMHRG@hotmail.com).
Feel free to circulate this email to any others you think may be interested in attending.
Hope to see you all there!

Friday 17 September 2010

'Industrial Responses' exhibition at RBSA Gallery

Industrial Responses
RBSA Gallery
11 October - 6 November 2010

Industry and manufacturing are central to Birmingham’s identity. Since the early 19th century, artists of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists (RBSA) have responded to our region’s evolving industrial landscape. Industrial Responses brings together a variety of examples taken from the RBSA’s Permanent Collection. Artists represented include Founder Member Samuel Lines, Harry Eccleston Hon. RBSA and Arthur Lockwood RBSA. By exploring themes such as art collecting, the picturesque, the sublime and seaside culture, the exhibition demonstrates the many ways in which art and industry interconnect.
Industrial Responses forms part of a three year community project funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund: Exploring Birmingham’s Art History with the RBSA. Why not join the RBSA's Archive Team for an interesting morning of discussion and debate at our study morning on Sunday 17 October. Speakers will include Dr. Richard Clay and Dr. Malcolm Dick (University of Birmingham) and lunch will be provided. For more details, please contact the gallery on 0121 236 4353 or email connie@rbsa.org.uk.


Wednesday 15 September 2010

Black Country History Day - October 16!

Black Country History Day
Saturday October 16 2010
10:00am-4:00pm
Large Lecture Theatre, Arts Building
University of Birmingham
£17 (refreshments and lunch provided)

Speakers include:

Paul Quigley: What's Left of the Black Country?
Chris Gallagher: William Shenstone and the Poetry of the Leasowes
Dr. Edward Chitham: Why Not Sandwell?
Janet Sullivan: Paying a Price for Industrialisation: Pollution in Oldbury

For more information or to book, contact
Dr. Malcolm Dick (Director of the Centre for West Midlands History)
on 0121 415 8253 or email: m.m.dick@bham.ac.uk


Cardinal Newman Exhibition











Place: Floor 6 of the Central Library, Archives and Heritage, in the secure area behind the counter.

Times: the secure area is open 10am to 5pm Tuesday to Saturday, extended opening to 8pm on
Thursday.

Dates: Tuesday 7 September to Saturday 30 October 2010.

When John Henry Newman first came to Birmingham in 1846 he lived at Oscott in the north of Birmingham, close to the new Catholic Oscott College. He then set up The Oratory in Birmingham, which from 1852 has been on the Hagley Road in Edgbaston. Newman wrote poetry as well as his work for the Catholic church, One of his most famous poems is The Dream of Gerontius, which the composer Elgar set to music; the first performance was at the Birmingham Triennial Musical Festival in 1900. Newman died in 1890 and was buried at the Oratory Retreat near Rednal. After his death the Oratory Church was rebuilt as a beautiful memorial to him.

For more information click here

Monday 13 September 2010

NEXT EVENT: Research Showcase Evening!

Centre for West Midlands History Research Group
Research Showcase
an evening with...
Keith Clenton:
A Walk Through Birmingham City Centre Back in Time
Photographs from the Carl Chinn 'Birmingham Lives' Archives
Wednesday 22 September
6:30-8:30pm
Lecture Room 3 (1st Floor), the Arts Building
University of Birmingham
Please email to confirm your attendance to CWMHRG@hotmail.com


Hope to see you all there!

Thursday 29 July 2010

Next meeting!

Centre for West Midlands History

Research Group

Research Interests Meeting

Monday 2nd August 2010,

6.30-8.30pm

Lecture Room 8 Floor 3 Arts Building, University of Birmingham

We are organizing a follow-up session to our last meeting by holding a ‘Research Interests’ Meeting on Monday 2nd August. We would like members to come and be prepared to speak informally for a maximum of five minutes about their research projects so that we can share interests, see how we can mutually help each other, and discuss the future progress of the group. It is also important that you consider what types of events and activities you would like the Research Group to conduct.

We wish to compile a list to be shared among members of research topics, so that individuals will be able to contact each other if there are common interests in their studies.

Please can you contact Connie Wan at cxw555@bham.ac.uk:

a) To let her know if you are able to attend the session on 2nd August and the topic which you will cover.

b) To let her know if you are willing to have your name, research interests and email address circulated to other members.

Aims of the Centre for West Midlands History (CWMH) Research Group

The group has been designed to bring together people and organisations interested in the rich history of the region, with the aim to develop complementary group activities and projects to support a network of individuals engaged in research. This may include (but is not restricted to) active scholars, postgraduate students, heritage professionals or local historians. The Research Group also encourages interdisciplinary research. Members can participate in and take advantage of initiatives and opportunities that cross the boundaries of conventional subject disciplines, in order to enlarge research contexts and generate new ways of approaching areas of historical research.

The Centre for West Midlands History Research Group is a group within the Friends of the Centre for West Midlands History: www.cbamh.bham.ac.uk

Thursday 8 July 2010

Welcome!

The CWMHRG had its inaugural meeting back in June and we are glad to say that the event was a big hit! We now have over 40 members!

This group has been designed to bring together people and organisations interested in the rich history of the region, with the aim to develop complementary group activities and projects to support a network of individuals engaged in research. This may include (but is not restricted to) active scholars, postgraduate students, heritage professionals or local historians. The Research Group also encourages interdisciplinary research, for its members to participate in and take advantage of initiatives and opportunities that cross the boundaries of conventional subject disciplines, in order to enlarge research contexts and generate new ways of approaching areas of historical research.


We plan to post upcoming events on this blog so keep your eyes peeled!


If you wish to contribute to the group, please email CWMHRG@hotmail.com to register your interest!