Local map specialist John Townley explores the growth of Birmingham through the first century of its town maps. About this event An exceptional opportunity to see a wide selection of Birmingham's earliest maps. Discover why they were made, when they were made, how they were made and...… can they be trusted?! This event is part […]
A symposium about the recently digitized Aris’s Birmingham Gazette (established 1741). 10 Sept; 1pm – 7.30pm Established in 1741, Aris’s Birmingham Gazette was described by Asa Briggs as one of the most lucrative and important regional papers in the country with a reputation for its political impartiality and which, even in the eighteenth century, was circulated over a […]
Female perspectives on the making and remaking of the urban environment. About this event Join this panel discussion about the experiences of women navigating and living in the city. When cities are planned, safe environments for women are not being considered and inadvertently public spaces are created that are unsafe. With this event we want […]
