Visit to The Pen Room, Argent Centre, Frederick St, Hockley

Saturday 9 April 2011 at 1.00pm

The Pen Room is home to a heritage collection that acknowledges Birmingham’s place at the centre of the world pen trade in the 19^th and first half of the 20^th centuries.

To book, contact Roger Bruton: rnbruton@tiscali.co.uk or 0121 308 3508

Centre for West Midlands History Research Group

Research Showcase

an evening with...

Chris Penney

The Hurd Library

Thursday 10 March

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).

Happy New Year Everyone!

I hope that you all had a well-deserved rest. Please find information regarding our next research showcase below. I hope to see you all there!

Centre for West Midlands History Research Group

Research Showcase

an evening with...

Dr. Caroline Archer:

The Kynoch Press: Typographic Trendsetters of the 20th Century

Caroline is Honorary Research Fellow at Birmingham Institute of Art & Design, Birmingham City University.

Wednesday 2 February 2011

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 to any others you think may be interested in attending.

Thank you!

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!

'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.

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