Industry & Innovation

Woodland Industries in the Wyre Forest

Industry and Agriculture: Rope Making and Horn Working in Bewdley

An Innovative Metal Industry: Pewter and Mass Production in Bewdley

The Brass Industry and Brass Workers in Birmingham

Corkscrew Manufacturing in Birmingham: Charles Hull’s Catalogue c. 1865

Birmingham: “The Toyshop of Europe”

The Smethwick Glass Works of Chance Brothers, West Midlands

The Infinite Uses of Glass: Chance Brothers, Glassmakers of Smethwick

The First Manufacturing Town: Industry in Birmingham in the mid-19th Century, The New Illustrated Directory, 1858

Made in Kidderminster: the History of the Carpet Industry

Derby Porcelain in the 18th and early 19th centuries

Matthew Boulton and Birmingham Silverware in the late 18th and early 19th centuries

Silversmiths and Silverware in late 18th and early 19th century Birmingham 

Papermaking, Printing and Associated Trades in the West Midlands during the 18th and Early 19th Centuries

Charles Bage, the Flax Industry and Shrewsbury’s Iron-Framed Mills

Thomas Wedgwood: the Godfather of Photography

Joseph Priestley: Trail-blazing Experimenter