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Advert for Woolpack Hotel, Family and Commercial Inn, Warwick
The New Illustrated Directory Entitled Men and Things of Modern England, 1858
Advertisement: Batty’s Circus, Shrewsbury, including the ascent of Mr Hughes on his head on top of a balloon
Watton’s Newspaper Cuttings, Volume 4 Image from: Shropshire Archives
Advertisement: Charles Radenhurst, New Royal Hotel, New Street, Birmingham
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Advertisement: Iohn Traies, Boot and Shoe Manufacturer, Birmingham
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Advertisement: J. Darwen and Son, Saddlers, Harness Makers, Bridle Cutters, etc, Birmingham
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Advertisement: Kendall and Son, Perfumers, Cabinet Case Makers, and Importers of Foreign Fancy Merchandise, London
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Advertisement: Messenger and Sons, Manufacturers of Chandeliers, Tripods and Lamps
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Advertisement: Mrs Graham’s Ascent: the first ascent of the Only English Female Aeronaut
Watton’s Newspaper Cuttings, Volume 2 Image from: Shropshire Archives
Advertisement: Opening of Hughes’ s Great Mammoth Equestrian Establishment, Shrewsbury
Watton’s Newspaper Cuttings, Volume 5 Image from: Shropshire Archives
Advertisement: Radclyffes and Co, General Printers and Stationers, Birmingham
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Advertisement: Sir Edward Thomason, Birmingham, Manufacturer of Articles
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Advertisement: Sir Edward Thomason, Vice Consul and Knight Chevalier
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Advertisement: Stock and Sharp, Glass and Lead Warehouse, Birmingham
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Advertisement: The Last Appearance of Mr Harper, Black singer and comedian
Watton’s Newspaper Cuttings, Volume 5 Image from: Shropshire Archives
Advertisement: W. and G. Peters, Importers of Foreign Wines and Spirits
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Adverts for John Yates & Sons, Birmingham
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Alexander Turgenev, Shakespeare’s Stratford and other Literary Connections
Image: Stratford-upon-Avon Church where Shakespeare was buried. Robert Bell Wheler, A Guide to Stratford-upon-Avon (Coventry, Henry Merridrew,… read more »
Alfred Harrop and Co, Orange Street Works, Sheffield
The New Illustrated Directory Entitled Men and Things of Modern England, 1858
An Account of a Society for Encouraging the Industrious Poor
An Account of a Society for Encouraging the Industrious Poor was published in Birmingham in 1787. Its… read more »
An Innovative Metal Industry: Pewter and Mass Production in Bewdley
Text: Malcolm Dick Image: A reconstruction at Bewdley Museum of an 18th century dining room with pewter plates stored… read more »
Answer to Dardanus’s
Image: Plan of Birmingham, drawn by J. Sherrif of Oldswinford, late of the Crescent Birmingham. J Bisset, Bisset’s Magnificent… read more »
Anti-slavery and the Midlands
Introduction The West Midlands region was home to a remarkable collection of individuals during the closing decades… read more »
Anti-slavery: Poetry, Images and Ideas
Thomas Day Other Lunar Society figures were less circumspect. Thomas Day was the first Lunar Society figure… read more »
Apley Park
Image from: Bayliss, Rev J C, Views in Shropshire (c. 1839). Shropshire Archives. “Towers and battlements it… read more »
Aris’s Birmingham Gazette – Abandoned Child
A Child left. WHEREAS on Friday Evening the 11th instant, a Male Child, supposed to be about… read more »
Aris’s Birmingham Gazette – Advert for Revolutionary Dinner
Hotel, Birmingham, July, 1791. Commemoration of the French Revolution. A Number of Gentlemen intend DINING together on… read more »
Aris’s Birmingham Gazette – Advert for transport between Birmingham and London
Safe and Elegant TRAVELLING. Hotel and Swan Inn, Birmingham. Paytons’s Old Original well-known LONDON POST-COACH, in Sixteen Hours… read more »
Aris’s Birmingham Gazette – An Escape
AN ESCAPE. MARY TAYLOR, who escaped from the Custody of the Keeper of the County Gaol in… read more »
Aris’s Birmingham Gazette – Appeal for calm during riots
BIRMINGHAM, JULY 18. BIRMINGHAM, July 16, 1791. Friends and Fellow Countrymen, IT is earnestly requested, that every… read more »
Aris’s Birmingham Gazette – Appeal for information about forged handbill
Birmingham, August 22 1791 WHEREAS it now appears, that amongst other insidious and unwarrantable Practices made use… read more »
Aris’s Birmingham Gazette – Dudley Cheese Fair
DUDLEY CHEESE FAIR. WHEREAS great Complaints have arisen from exposing of Cheese to Sale, and weighing the… read more »
Aris’s Birmingham Gazette – Employment Advert
WANTED in a Gentleman’s Family, near Birmingham, immediately, or at Michaelmas next, a sober industrious Woman Servant;… read more »
Aris’s Birmingham Gazette – Proclaimation by the King on the Birmingham Riots
By the KING. A PROCLAMATION. GEORGE R. WHEREAS it hath been represented unto Us, that a great… read more »
Aris’s Birmingham Gazette – Report of woman posing as a man
A respite during his Majesty’s pleasure has been received at Warwick, for Bartholomew Fisher, one of the… read more »
Aris’s Birmingham Gazette – Request to return property looted in riots
WHEREAS it is well known that divers Persons still withhold Books, Paper and other Property belonging to… read more »
Aris’s Birmingham Gazette – Runaway Wife
Newport, Aug. 13, 1790. Eloped from her Husband, WHEREAS Susannah, Wife of Wm, Hollingshead, of Newport, in… read more »
Aris’s Birmingham Gazette – SONG, on obtaining the BIRMINGHAM and WORCESTER CANAL BILL
SONG, on obtaining the BIRMINGHAM and WORCESTER CANAL BILL. Come, now begin delving, the Bill is obtain’d,… read more »
Aris’s Birmingham Gazette – Trial and Execution of Rioters
On Saturday the Commission for holding the Assize for this county, was opened before Mr. Baron Hotham,… read more »
Aristocrats and the Industrial Revolution: The Leveson-Gowers
Image: The Most Noble George Granville Leveson Gower, Marquis of Stafford, KG, from an original picture by W… read more »
Armenians en route to the United States of America
Image from: Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre.
Article from The Salopian Journal, 10 October 1838, on Mrs Graham’s ascent in a balloon
Watton’s Newspaper Cuttings, Volume 2 Image from: Shropshire Archives
Arundel Brush Works, Sheffield
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Assembling the Last Judgement Window
Image from: Cathedral Church of St Philip, Birmingham The photograph shows the Last Judgement window being assembled… read more »
Atcham Bridge, Shropshire
Image: Atcham Bridge, Shropshire. Another important design by John Gwynn, Atcham Bridge was not only a distinguished… read more »
Attorneys at Law in Birmingham
Presented in two parts, the top portion of this engraving contains a tablet with the names and… read more »
Babylon to Birmingham
A short journey through medicine to the end of the 18th Century Marion Roberts That the intelligent… read more »
Back entrance of Woodbrooke, with group gathered outside
Image from: Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre.
Back of No 6 Glasshouse
Image: Photo taken during the 1945-1946 demolition. It shows the back side of number 6 glasshouse, ie… read more »
Bank of Deposit, London
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