When Brum brutally cleared its slums
In just 25 years, 50,000 homes were demolished and 150,000 people were displaced. What were the consequences?
Jon Neale
The forgotten post-war decree that deliberately strangled Birmingham
For 40 years, an early ‘levelling up’ policy curtailed the city's industrial potential and constrained its growth
Sham marriages and spies: rediscovering the Birmingham Group
In the 1930s, the city's pubs were backdrop to a group of writers and artists 'free of the London trademark'
Why does everyone hate us?
A long history of Birmingham’s (grossly unfair!) image
Lights! Camera! Edgbaston! How Birmingham supercharged the film industry
Celluloid and cinema created by Brummies brought the 20th Century to life
