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Birmingham: Apprenticeship Indentures and Assignments and three Overseers Accounts
Birmingham & Midland Institute 9 Margaret Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, United KingdomBirmingham MeetingsApprenticeship Indentures and Assignments and three Overseers Account Speaker: Rhonda Niven In this presentation we will hear about the conservation of Apprenticeship Indentures and Assignments and Overseers Account Books of Bromsgrove St Johns. This project was carried out in 2022 by Rhonda Niven, Book and Paper Conservator at the Hive in Worcester as a result […]
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Birmingham: The Mourning Brooch
Birmingham & Midland Institute 9 Margaret Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, United KingdomBirmingham MeetingsThe Mourning Brooch Speaker: Jean Renwick Jean Renwick’s talk reveals years of research behind her family saga, The Mourning Brooch, based upon the lives of real Yorkshire people who lived in the second half of the 19th and first half of the 20th century. After inheriting a mourning brooch, Jean was intrigued to know who […]
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Birmingham: The Rise and Fall of the World’s Mightiest Glassmakers
Birmingham & Midland Institute 9 Margaret Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, United KingdomBirmingham MeetingsThe Rise and Fall of the World's Mightiest Glassmakers Speaker: Henry Chance Chance Brothers & Co Ltd was at one time the greatest glassmaker in the world, and one of Smethwick's foremost employers, providing the glass for the Crystal Palace, the Palace of Westminster and more than half the lighthouse lenses worldwide. It was particularly […]
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Birmingham: Weeping Angels
Birmingham & Midland Institute 9 Margaret Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, United KingdomBirmingham MeetingsWeeping Angels – interpreting the symbolism of the Victorian cemetery Speaker - David Moore Symbols are a language that can help us understand our past. As the saying goes, “a picture paints a thousand words”: but which words? Understanding our past determines actively, our ability to understand the present. David will take a journey back […]
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Birmingham: The Power of Balance – Kingsley Norris Memorial lecture
Birmingham & Midland Institute 9 Margaret Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, United KingdomBirmingham MeetingsThe Power of Balance - W&T Avery in the First World War’ Presenter - Andrew Lound It was a war that would forever change our view of humanity. A war that was driven by treaty and alliances. A war that would leave millions dead. The Great War started out as a great patriotic adventure and […]
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Birmingham: My Churchley family – a typical West Midlands family?
Birmingham & Midland Institute 9 Margaret Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, United KingdomBirmingham MeetingsMy Churchley family – a typical West Midlands family ? Presenter - Richard Churchley In this talk our speaker will trace his family from early times through Worcestershire, Warwickshire and North Gloucestershire in the 17th and 18th centuries and into Birmingham in the 19th century and then back out to Worcestershire in the 20th century. […]
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Birmingham: How We Got Here – the story of back to back housing in Birmingham
Birmingham & Midland Institute 9 Margaret Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, United KingdomBirmingham MeetingsHow We Got Here – the story of back to back housing in Birmingham. Presenters - David and Pam Humphries This talk by husband and wife team David and Pam tells the story of back to back housing in Birmingham. Find out what was happening in the Town of Birmingham in the 18th & 19th […]
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Birmingham: Society Conference and AGM
Birmingham & Midland Institute 9 Margaret Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, United KingdomBirmingham MeetingsFamily History Day incorporating Annual General Meeting An All day event with Speakers Sharon Hintze and Beverley Walker. Programme Timings – 09.30 – Doors Open & Registration 10:00 – Welcome 10:15 – Presentation by Sharon Hintze, topic - By the Sweat of Thy Face; Occupations. 11:15 – Coffee Break 11:45 – AGM – A link […]
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