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Birmingham: Birmingham Middlemore Emigration Homes
Birmingham & Midland Institute 9 Margaret Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, United KingdomDue To Unforeseen Circumstances a Change of Date and Speaker The Birmingham Middlemore Emigration Homes between 1873 and 1954 Stories of the Lost Children. A Presentation by Val Hart. Vals presentation is about the work of the Middlemore Homes in Birmingham who emigrated over 5000 children to Canada and Australia between 1873 and 1954. In the […]
Birmingham: Mobility in Your Family History
Birmingham & Midland Institute 9 Margaret Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, United KingdomMobility in Your Family History Presenter - Dr. Mike Haynes Human beings are always restless. Throughout history we have moved in different ways. We can migrate to live in different places. But mobility is something different. It is about our journeys to work, to school, the trips to the shops, our holidays. Mobility takes us […]
Birmingham: Friends of Key Hill Cemy and Warstone Lane Cemy
Birmingham & Midland Institute 9 Margaret Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, United KingdomNote Change of Date (was 2nd Sep) due to Rail Strike and new topic Friends of Key Hill Cemetery and Warstone Lane Cemetery Speakers: Volunteers of the Friends The Friends of Key Hill Cemetery and Warstone Lane Cemetery who formed in 2004, are a group of volunteers working to preserve, research, inform and promote these important […]
Birmingham: Birmingham in The Blitz
Birmingham & Midland Institute 9 Margaret Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, United KingdomChange of Topic & Presenters, booked speaker being unavailable Birmingham in The Blitz - And Some Families Affected by It. Presenters: Jacqui Fielding and Matt Felkin Do you know who the first person to be killed in the Blitz was? About the Air Raid Precautions? About Morrison and Anderson shelters? Bomb maps and excavation zones? […]
Birmingham: West Midlands Police Museum
Birmingham & Midland Institute 9 Margaret Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, United KingdomThe West Midlands Police Museum: History and Archives Presenter - Corrine Brazier Corrine Brazier Corinne is the Heritage Manager at West Midlands Police Museum, now located at the former Central Custody Block, the Lock-Up, in Steelhouse Lane, Birmingham. Re-opening on 9 April 2022, two years had been spent refurbishing the museum which is spread across three […]
Birmingham: The Royal Warwickshire Regiment 14-18 In Books & Cartoons
Birmingham & Midland Institute 9 Margaret Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, United KingdomThe Royal Warwickshire Regiment 1914-1918 Books and Cartoons Presenter - Paul Jaques and David Vaux D. C. Harries, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Men from the RWR played a major role on the Western Front in WWI. The regiment lost 11,610 men; six were awarded the Victoria Cross for outstanding bravery. Paul and David’s […]
Coffee Morning in Birmingham
Birmingham & Midland Institute 9 Margaret Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, United KingdomCoffee Morning in the BMI We will be holding a Coffee Morning in the BMI Cafeteria at the BMI. Do please come along and join us. Stay after lunch and take advantage of the society resources in our Family History centre Please let Kim know if you intend to take part click Email Kim
Birmingham: Lives and Times on the Birmingham Canal System
Birmingham & Midland Institute 9 Margaret Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, United KingdomLives and Times on the Birmingham Canal System Mrs. Violet Atkins and daughter Violet, on Butty boat RAVEN, 1952. Image from the BCN Society Archive, Bob May Collection. Presenter - Phil Clayton Phils presentation will cover the past and present on the West Midlands waterways, in particular focussing on the Birmingham Canal Navigations. Our speaker […]
Birmingham: For the Sake of the Empire – Kingsley Norris Memorial lecture
Birmingham & Midland Institute 9 Margaret Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, United KingdomNote Change of Date (was 3rd Feb) due to Rail Strike. For the Sake of the Empire Presenter - Peter Middleton A Commonwealth War Graves Commission headstone in Witton Cemetery marks the last resting place of a Canadian soldier. He had, in fact, been born only two miles away in Witton Lane, Handsworth. This is […]
Birmingham: Heroes and Ghosts
Birmingham & Midland Institute 9 Margaret Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, United KingdomHeroes and Ghosts Speaker: Michael H Hallett Wing Co Harold Blackburn MC AFC Public Domain via Wiki Media Commons Heroes & Ghosts is the story of Michael’s grandfather Harold Blackburn, a pioneer aviator before World War I and war hero. After the war, scandal struck the family and plunged it into shame for three generations. […]
Birmingham: How We Lived Then
Birmingham & Midland Institute 9 Margaret Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, United KingdomHow We Lived Then Presenter - Mary Bodfish This talk is based on probate inventories with Mary making particular use of the inventory of a West Bromwich man who died in 1700 to give a guided tour of his house and farm; it also includes the history of probate documents with an element of family […]
Birmingham: Society Conference and AGM
Birmingham & Midland Institute 9 Margaret Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, United KingdomFamily History Day incorporating Annual General Meeting An All day event with Speakers Dr Penny Walters and Doreen Hopwood. Programme Timings - 09.30 – Doors Open & Registration 10:00 - Welcome 10:15 – Presentation by Dr. Penny Walters, topic – Demystifying DNA 11:15 - Coffee Break 11:45 - AGM - Details Click here - AGM 12:30 […]