Black Country… After Carribee Island: the Black Country’s long migration history 29 Nov 201829 Nov 2018 I've been looking for a way (and time) to wrap up my after-life of Carribee Island series (see 1880s, 1890s, WW1, 1939) for a while. I'm going to start this…
Black Country… No-go zones, racism and the press in British history 28 Oct 20182 Nov 2018 One of the advantages of balancing a PhD with research at the Black Country Museum is that I get to compare and contrast over time. My PhD work is about…
Black Country Towards a bibliography of Black Country history 20 Jul 201820 Jul 2018 I've just added a new page to this website: a bibliography of Black Country history. This region is, as any scholar who tries to research it will tell you, tremendously…
Wolverhampton After Carribee Island: the eve of destruction 7 Jul 2018 This post follows some preceding ones on the continuing history of the area once known as Carribee Island in Wolverhampton. This area, designated a slum, was pulled down in the…
Irish… After Carribee Island: the Great War 12 Apr 2018 This post follows on from these two about the afterlife of Carribee Island, for forty years the assumed - and stigmatised - home of Wolverhampton's Irish population in the nineteenth…
Wolverhampton After Carribee Island: 1891 22 Mar 2018 This post follows the period of my research into Carribee Island, and an earlier post looking at the space in 1881. By 1891, The Space Formerly Known As Carribee Island…
Black Country… After Carribee Island: the persistent Irish quarter? 14 Jan 201821 Mar 2018 My PhD research on the Stafford Street area of Wolverhampton finishes, pretty much, in 1877: the date that Parliament approved the Wolverhampton Improvement Scheme which led to the demolition of…
History… Maps for the National Plan 28 Dec 2017 Over December I was the very fortunate recipient of a book advent calendar from my lovely wife. I could rhapsodise about some of the books but to avoid losing the…
Birmingham… “Decent housing for decent people” 13 Nov 2017 The Icknield Port Loop of the Birmingham Canal Navigations is one of those swathes of dereliction, just outside of Birmingham city centre, that shouldn't really exist anymore. It's a long,…
Black Country… Slavery and the Black Country: coming home 24 Sep 201724 Sep 2017 We've recently looked at how deeply the trade in human lives was embedded in the financial and industrial creation of the Black Country, with roots running through almost every facet…
