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… 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…
Politics Righteous Among The Nations 29 Jan 2017 I often walk the dog in Mary Stevens Park, in Stourbridge, and walk through the grand, now-restored gates. This morning though, it was a plaque on the wall to the…
Black Country… A Black Country Brexit 27 Jun 201628 May 2018 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…
Black Country Don’t read below the line 20 Jul 2015 Controversy de la semaine around these parts comes in the wake of the increasingly-popular Black Country Festival. This sort of thing is a great idea - fostering a bit of community spirit…
Irish… First as tragedy, then as farce 20 Apr 201520 Apr 2015 History can be a depressing mistress sometimes. Most people will be familiar with an expression attributed to Marx, that history repeats itself "the first as tragedy, the second as farce." In…
