The Indian Workers' Association was set up in Coventry in 1938 to fight for India's freedom & to champion the rights of workers.

IWA is working with University of Warwick to deliver a series of workshops, enabling students aged 18-25 to engage with this history.

Email: [email protected]

Join CAL_Postgrads Rob Brown as he discusses 'Housing Problems and Solutions in #Birmingham 1901-14'
🗓️Thurs 18 April
🕰️ 7:00-8:00pm online
All Welcome - just register for meeting details
Imogen Peck College of Arts+Law Birmingham Archives & Collections BRIHC ModernBritishStudies
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I have fond memories of Catherine Hall roleplaying a conversation with Melvyn Bragg using exactly this sentence, at a ModernBritishStudies workshop

GALTON VALLEY PUMPING STATION OPEN DAYS 2024

*The Pumping Station opens its doors this Saturday 13 April for the first of our spring/summer open days

*Open the 2nd Saturday of the month: 11am-3pm last admission 2:30pm. FREE entry (11 May next)

*Info @ visitsandwell.com/things-to-see-…

This photograph from the ApnaHeritageArchive collection shows Chander Mohan and family enjoying cake and food at a birthday party in Fairway Green, Bilston, in 1977, perfect for today's #Archive30 theme of #ArchiveFoodAndDrink ARA Scotland

It's not long until #PrideMonth , and if you're looking for a workshop or event, I can help!

Tailored to your organisation and group, I can run sessions on LGBTQ+ inclusion, specific points of interest in history or culture, and more!

emilygarside.com/contact/

read this as Black Country artists and I was like huh I didn’t realise Beyoncé knew so many people in Walsall

Remember when your first homework of the year was to cut out some vaguely relevant pictures from magazines, stick them to your exercise book and cover it with sticky-back plastic?

It’s book day! I Heart Politics is out today

The brilliant colours of Nettlefolds suppliers and agents labels from around the world are preserved in this hand-made scrapbook, 1880s #Archive30 #ColourfulArchives Winterbourne HG Lee Hale History WestMidlands Simon Briercliffe #industrialhistory

Amazon has announced they're phasing out their checkout-less grocery stores.

The 'Just Walk Out' technology, which was labeled as automatic, was actually 1,000+ Indian employees monitoring you as you walked through the store.

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I created a cool web app using Ordnance Survey data - British Placename Mapper (placenames.rtwilson.com). It allows you to search for place names that match various criteria (starts with 'great', ends with 'burgh' etc) and plot them on an interactive map. #gis #geospatial

Our archive Winterbourne HG contains a wealth of material from Guest Keen & Nettlefolds (GKN) from 1820s to 1980s #Archive30 #YourArchive Lee Hale History WestMidlands #industrialhistory CAL_Postgrads University Graduate School (UoB)

There were coachloads of miners from Wales who came to Saltley to picket the coking depot only to find out it was closed. They ended up staying at the Muhammad Ali Centre in Birmingham, eating curried goat and playing dominoes with local Black and Asian people who supported them.

Might start a series: scenic bowls clubs of the Marches

Out on a bike for the first time in, ooh, 12 years? Can confirm that trundling through country lanes in Shropshire is a step up from commuting into central London.

Today's image from the Historic England Archive was taken in the late 1930s. It shows the west front of the Church of St Martin in Parkfields, Wolverhampton.

You can see more Archive images of the church👇
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#Wolverhampton

I've been searching high and low for someone who appeared in (or a family member of theirs - perhaps more likely) Philip Donnellan's 1964 film The Colony about West Indian immigrants in Birmingham. It's for a piece for Birmingham Dispatch

If anyone can help, please get in touch!