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Tag Archives: black country
That particular articulation of social relations which we are at the moment naming as… Doulton Brook
A break from the Irish this week. I’ve been mostly reading Doreen Massey this week – if you’re not familiar with her she’s an urban geographer of major importance, who died earlier in the year (2016 striking again). She was … Continue reading
Posted in Black Country, History, Housing, Space, Stourbridge
Tagged amblecote, black country, BSR, caparo, doreen massey, doulton brook, geography, housing, isaac nash, place, radical history, river stour, space, stour, stourbridge, stourbridge canal, sunrise, taylor wimpey, wollaston
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Black Country Irish: Red-headed Kilcoign
Irish Rows If there’s one thing you learn researching the Irish in the Victorian city, it’s that 19th century newspaper editors love an Irish Row. Roger Swift wrote whole papers about the policing of Irish rows in Wolverhampton, but it’s … Continue reading
Posted in Black Country, Irish, Stourbridge, Uncategorized
Tagged black country, Black Country Irish, crime, gangs, irish, new street
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Coming over here, taking our jobs…
Crowds of miserable Irish darken all our towns. The wild Milesian features, looking false ingenuity, restlessness, unreason, misery and mockery, salute you on all highways and byways… He is the sorest evil this country has to strive with. So wrote the great crusading reformer … Continue reading
Posted in History, Irish, Politics, Representation
Tagged alienation, black country, brexit, immigration, irish, luddism, riots, winchester
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A Black Country Brexit
I was going to post another bit about the navvies of Elan Valley today, but it seems a bit strange to be discussing late-Victorian municipal water schemes when we’re living through Actual History as we speak. The fall-out from the EU … Continue reading
Posted in Black Country, Politics, Uncategorized
Tagged black country, brexit, eu, europe, racism, referendum
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The Other immigrants of Carribee Island: Wolverhampton’s Jewish community 1
My PhD research focuses on a small section of Wolverhampton town centre in the nineteenth century that was well-known – perhaps notorious, even – for it’s substantial Irish immigrant population. “Carribee Island” and the “Stafford Street district” became by-words when … Continue reading
Posted in Housing, Space, Wolverhampton
Tagged black country, canal street, carribee island, cemetery, census, fryer street, graveyard, henri lefebvre, immigration, jew, jewish, judaism, map, martin daunton, other, prussia, st james square, stafford street, synagogue, urbanisation, wolverhampton
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“Slums” of the Black Country
We’ve come to the end of this series on some of the distinct areas of the Black Country that found themselves with a special stigma in the nineteenth century. Based on the Birmingham Daily Post‘s 1866 series on the sanitary condition I’ve had … Continue reading
Posted in Black Country, Housing, Slum, tower blocks, Uncategorized
Tagged bilston, black country, cradley, cradley heath, darlaston, dudley, housing, london, lye, oldbury, poverty, public health, slum, slum clearance, Slums of the Black Country, smethwick, walsall, wednesbury, willenhall
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“Slums” of the Black Country: Waste Bank, Lye
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; Walsall preferred to be out, at least in 1866. The … Continue reading
Posted in Black Country, environment, History, Housing, Landscape, Maps, Slum, Space, Stourbridge
Tagged black country, history, lye, lye waste, mud city, nailmaking, slums, Slums of the Black Country, social history, spatial history, stourbridge, waste, waste bank
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“Slums” of the Black Country: Darlaston
I’ve ummed and aahed a bit about what to write about the Post‘s report on Darlaston. It’s really the same old story: surface drainage, evils, abomination, bubbling and seething, stagnant, over-flowing, the cholera, back courts, and so on; there’s not a lot … Continue reading
Posted in Black Country, half baked theories, History, Housing, Maps, Poverty, Public Health, Slum
Tagged alleys, black country, courts, darlaston, henri lefebvre, housing, john wesley, map, poverty, pub, slum, Slums of the Black Country, spatial history, Staffordshire, streets, urban history, wolverhampton
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“Slums” of the Black Country: Oatmeal Square, Wednesbury
Our Birmingham Daily Post correspondent is concerned with the sanitary condition of the Black Country. Filth, smells, pigs, crowded courts – all acted as signals for diseases like cholera, typhoid, smallpox, that terrified the middle-class, newspaper-reading sets. This accounts for … Continue reading
