Skip to content

SIMON BRIERCLIFFE

Historian and geographer, writer and researcher

Search
  • About me
  • Bibliography: Black Country History
  • Bibliography: Local studies of the Irish in 19th Century Britain
  • Blog
  • My research
  • Talks and publications

Category: environment

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…
Black Country…

“Slums” of the Black Country: Anvil Yard, Cradley Heath

14 Dec 20157 Apr 2017
Not far from the Lye Waste lies the ancient manor of Cradley. At the first talk I gave at Wolverhampton Art Gallery in the summer, somebody mentioned to me that I ought…
Black Country…

“Slums” of the Black Country: Waste Bank, Lye

7 Dec 201521 Dec 2015
The South Staffordshire coalfield defines the Black Country for many purposes, but as a culturally-defined region, its borders are highly porous. Wolverhampton is in or out, depending on who you ask;…
Black Country…

“Slums” of the Black Country: Gold’s Hill, West Bromwich

23 Nov 201521 Dec 2015
The Black Country is constructed not just upon topography but upon geology. Mines can only be built where there's something to mine; other sorts of works require proximity to those materials; infrastructure is…
Black Country…

“Slums” of the Black Country: Eel Street, Oldbury

2 Nov 201521 Dec 2015
The Post's next community is one I'm loathe to try and explain in detail. Oldbury was infamous as one of the most polluted towns in the country - so much so that…
Black Country…

“Slums” of the Black Country: a tour of Willenhall

26 Oct 201521 Dec 2015
It comes as no surprise that our loquacious correspondent was a fan of the eminent art critic, writer and proto-environmentalist John Ruskin, whose prose was classically Victorian (read, excessively wordy). In his Birmingham…
Black Country…

“Slums” of the Black Country: Quarry Lane, Bilston

19 Oct 201521 Dec 2015
If there's been some research into Carribee Island in the past, and a little into the Mambles in Dudley, there's almost nothing to be googled on another of the Birmingham Daily Post's…
environment…

All the pieces matter

2 Jun 20152 Jun 2015
Disclaimer: I'm no expert on American history, not at all. I'm keen that any theory I want to study be portable though, so I'm attempting here to look at a…
Black Country…

The Planner’s Eye

24 Apr 2015
Heath Town Estate, Wolverhampton, by Smileyface on the Skyscraper City website. Click the pic for a link to some truly frightening pictures of the estate at its worst. Multi- and…
Black Country…

Taking the waters

21 Jan 201521 Jan 2015
The eighteenth century was, for many of the new middling sorts and gentry, the era of leisure. If you were very well-heeled of course, you had nothing to do but leisure,…

Posts navigation

Older posts

Follow me on Twitter

My Tweets

Recent Posts

  • A bibliography of the Irish in Britain: first thoughts
  • Ag labhairt Gaeilge sa Tír Dhubh – speaking Irish in the Black Country
  • Gaeilge sa Tír Dhubh: the Irish language in the Black Country
  • The teens
  • After Carribee Island: the Black Country’s long migration history

Category Cloud

Birmingham Black Country Block Capital Canal environment Everyday Life half baked theories History Housing Irish lancashire Landscape Maps Migration PhD Politics Poverty Public Health Public History Representation Slum Sources Space Staffordshire Stourbridge Talking bout my generations Theory tower blocks Uncategorized Wolverhampton

Pages on this site

  • About me
  • Bibliography: Black Country History
  • Bibliography: Local studies of the Irish in 19th Century Britain
  • Blog
  • My research
  • Talks and publications

Archives

Search

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 156 other followers

Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com.
Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.
To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie Policy
Cancel

 
Loading Comments...
Comment
    ×