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No character in Worcester’s long history is so immediately and so intimately linked with the city as is Edward Elgar. Music lovers all over the world associate him with the Malvern Hills and his beloved Worcestershire. He was a complex figure i
In the mud and blood of the Western Front, military chaplains fought to bring solace and hope, amongst the most famous of them was Worcester vicar the Reverend Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy - known as Woodbine Willie. Volunteering in 1914 as a zea
The burial of Prince Arthur in Worcester Cathedral in 1502 changed British history forever.The eldest son of Henry VII, educated as a renaissance Prince and married to Catherine of Aragon, he seemed destined to lead England into a new era. But
Birmingham was transformed between 1850 and 1900. Though in 1850 a fast-growing, prosperous manufacturing centre, it was an unplanned, insanitary muddle of a town; by the end of the nineteenth century however it was renowned both as ‘the best g
Wyre Piddle, Dag Tail End, Cofton Hackett, Finstall and Inkberrow.Just a few of the strangely intriguing names found on the signposts pointing along the lanes leading to the hamlets, villages and towns of Worcestershire in the rural heart of E
As Britain emerged into the mid-twentieth century, change is everywhere. Cities were shifting from smog-filled industrial hubs to more efficient centres of commerce and, despite the country once again being blighted by war, society was shifting
Women's lives were transformed in the Black Country between 1945-1968.During these years of prosperity and full employment new appliances relieved some of the domestic drudgery that had dominated domestic life in earlier years.For the first t
The Black Country (1945-1966)The post-war years transformed the Black Country of the English Midlands.The region was a driving force in the country's industrial recovery and this was a golden era of working class prosperity with full employme
The end of the Second World War ushered in a period of great prosperity in the Black Country of the English Midlands. It began two decades of full employment and high wages, widespread urban regeneration with thousands of new homes being built
Historically, widows have often been portrayed as pitiful figures dressed in black who required charity to survive. This was certainly true of the lives of many working class women over the centuries for whom day-to-day existence was already ma
For almost 150 years, the Worcestershire village of Powick was home to the county’s hospital for mental illness. It reached the height of its importance during the First World War, as the trauma, anxiety and grief resulting from the War affecte
The Chamberlains - Joseph, Austen and Neville - are unique in British political history in which they were prominent - and sometimes dominant - for nearly a century.Unlike previous political dynasties, they did not come from hereditary wealth
The ‘Everything to Everybody’ Project is recovering Birmingham’s unique heritage as home to the largest and oldest Shakespeare collection in any public library in the world. Recently, it has also begun to uncover the truly global influence and
The ‘Everything to Everybody’ Project is recovering Birmingham’s unique heritage as home to the largest and oldest Shakespeare collection in any public library in the world. Recently, it has also begun to uncover the truly global influence and
Dr Roger White, Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham who specialises in the Roman period and has been researching Wroxeter for the last 40 years, introduces this series of podcasts which will explore the significance and influence of
Visitors to the ruins of Wroxeter in the heart of Shropshire are surprised to hear archaeologists compare it to Pompeii - the Roman town famously buried in the ashes of Mount Vesuvius. But the analogy is real. Both towns were a similar size a
The arrival of the Roman army in the West Midlands was shocking for the native communities who were occupied. Then came a profound change in life and society revealed by modern archaeology.In programme 1 of a series of podcasts about the Roman
In 1910 - eight years before women won the right to vote in parliamentary elections - the Black Country got its first woman councillor, when Ada Newman was elected to Walsall Borough Council. Between then and the outbreak of the Second World Wa
In this programme, Andrew reveals how Worcester gained notoriety for electoral malpractice which led to Worcester being without a sitting MP for two years, and how the campaign to rid the constituency of this fraud backfired on the Liberal Part
In this programme, Andrew discusses how the two famous battles of Worcester in 1642 and 1651 highlight the strategic importance of the city to king and Parliament during bloody English Civil war and beyond. He talks to the publisher of History
In this programme, Andrew explains how the Dissolution of the monastaries at the hands of Henry VIII and Thomas Cromwell had a profound impact on the religious life of the city and the welfare of its residents and led directly to the foundation
In this second of two podcasts on the voyage to America made in 1874 by Birmingham’s lost philosopher, Professor Ewan Fernie, Director of the ‘Everything to Everybody’ Project, and the project’s American Lead, Professor Katherine Scheil, contin
In 1874, Birmingham’s most famous politician, Joseph Chamberlain sent George Dawson across the Atlantic as ‘Birmingham’s Ambassador to America’ – almost as if Birmingham were a cultural power in its own right. Dawson went down a storm in Ameri
Historians have extensively studied the achievements of the Scottish engineer James Watt Jr, seen by many as the father of the steam engines that powered the Industrial Revolution.However, despite their efforts Watt the man often remains a mys
Groups of young evacuees, standing on railway stations with gas masks and cardboard suitcases have become an iconic image of wartime Britain, but their histories have eclipsed those of women whose domestic lives were affected.In her new book,
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