In the last 12 months, we have continued to add a range of recently published titles to the Birmingham Collection, the Black History Collection and Serials. All these titles are available to view in the Heritage Research Area. We hope you enjoy the selection!
BIRMINGHAM COLLECTION (BCOL) / LOCAL STUDIES COLLECTION (L, LP, LF)
1. Andrews, Maggie & Edwards, Emma.
Bovril, Whisky and Gravediggers : The Spanish Flu Pandemic comes to the West Midlands, 1918 – 1920.
(2019)
BCOL 46.01, Level 4 & L 46.01, Level 5.
2. Ballard, Phillada.
Highbury Park Historic Landscape Appraisal.
(2009)
LF 27.3 HIG, Level 5.
3. Bayer, Olaf; Herring, Peter; Lane, Rebecca and Roethe, Johanna.
Digbeth and Deritend, Birmingham, West Midlands : Outline Historic Area Assessment.
(2018)
LF 91.5 DIG, Level 5.
4. Bengalis in Birmingham.
Celebration of Durga Puja in Birmingham.
(2018)
LP 21.85, Level 5.
5. Bloomfield, Jon.
Our City : Migrants and the Making of Modern Birmingham.
(2019)
BCOL 21.85, Level 4 & L 21.85 BLO, Level 5.
6. Boot, Richard.
Ten Heroes, One City At War : Ten servicemen from Birmingham awarded the Victoria Cross in the First World War.
(2018)
LP 75.7 BOO, Level 5.
7. Brown, David Lewis.
The Elan Valley Clearance.
(2019)
L 45.31, Level 5.
8. (Ed.) Cawood, Ian & Peters, Lisa.
Print, Politics and the Provincial Press in Modern Britain.
(2019)
L 08.1 CAW, Level 5.
9. Connell, Kieran.
Black Handsworth : Race in 1980s Britain.
(2019)
BCOL 21.85, Level 4 & L 21.85 CON, Level 5.
- (Ed.) Dick, Malcolm & Croft, Kate.
The Power To Change The World : James Watt (1736 – 1819) – A Life in 50 Objects.
(2019)
BCOL 78.1 WAT, Level 4 & L 78.1 WAT, Level 5.
- Ellis, Martin, Osborne, Victoria & Barringer, Tim.
Victorian Radicals : From the Pre – Raphaelites to the Arts & Crafts Movement.
(2018)
LF 54. 833, Level 5.
- Fowler, Alys.
Hidden Nature – A Voyage to Discovery.
(2017)
BCOL 78.1 FOW, Level 4 & L 78.1 FOW, Level 5.
- Fowler, Alys.
A Modern Herbal.
(2019).
L 58.8 FOW, Level 5.
- Gauld, Nicola & Awal, Nadia.
Beyond The Battlefields : Kathe Buchler’s Photographs of Germany in the Great War. The University of Birmingham and the Great War.
(2018)
LP 75.7, Level 5.
- Hallam, David J.A.
Taking on the Men : the First Women Parliamentary Candidates 1918.
(2018)
BCOL 76.8 HAL, Level 4 & L 76.8 HAL, Level 5.
- Hotchkiss, Tony.
Not For Want Of Trying : The History of Berkeley & Co. Ltd.
(2012)
BCOL 67.2 BER, Level 4 and L 67.2 BER, Level 5.
- Hunt, Cathy.
Righting The Wrong : Mary Macarthur, 1880 – 1921 : The Working Woman’s Champion.
(2019)
L 78.1 MAC, Level 5.
- Kennedy, Michael.
Kings Norton, A Kaleidoscope.
(2019)
BCOL – Kings Norton, Level 4 and L 92.4, Level 5.
- Lound, Andrew P.B.
The Power of Balance : W. & T. Avery Ltd. in the First World War.
(2018)
L 68.2 AVE, Level 5.
- Miller, David Philip.
James Watt, Chemist – Understanding The Origins of the Steam Age.
(2016)
L 78.1 WAT, Level 5.
- Palfreyman, Louise.
Once Upon A Time in Birmingham : Women who dared to Dream.
(2018)
BCOL 22.7, Level 4 & L 22.7, Level 5.
- Panayiotou, Panikos.
Amathus to Birmingham : The Greek Cypriot Food Journey.
(2018)
BCOL 21.85 PAN, Level 4 and LF 21.85 PAN, Level 5.
- Peacock, Joe.
Out of Sight, not Out of Mind : Stories from the People of Monyhull Hospital.
(2018)
LP 46.13, Level 5.
- Penn, Alan.
Winds of Freedom : The Anti – Slavery Movement in Birmingham, 1770s – 1840.
(2009)
L 21.851 PEN, Level 5.
- Pick, Justine.
Highbury During The First World War.
(2018)
LP 75.7 PIC, Level 5.
- Reekes, Andrew.
More Than Munich – The Forgotten Legacy of Neville Chamberlain.
(2018)
BCOL 78.1 CHA, Level 4 & L 78.1 CHA, Level 5.
- Refugee Advice Group.
Somali Connections : A Collection of transcripts of oral history recordings by Somali people now living in Birmingham UK.
(2011)
L 21.85, Level 5.
- Rice, Chris.
Everything to Everybody : Birmingham’s Shakespeare Memorial Library.
(2018)
LP 53.111, Level 5.
- Rice, Chris.
Highbury : A Brief History & Guide.
(2018)
LP 56.1 HIG Box 1, Level 5.
- Samuels, John.
Where Did it all go Wrong? The Story of Football in the West Midlands.
(2019)
BCOL 25.14 SAM, Level 4 & L 25.14 SAM, Level 5.
- Smith, Douglas H.
Who’s For The Game? The story of the men from four Birmingham sports clubs who died in World War I.
(2019)
BCOL 75.9 SMI, Level 4 & L 75.9 SMI, Level 5.
- Uddin, Mohammed Foiz.
Preserving The Cultural History of Bangladeshi Food.
(2018)
L 21.85 UDD, Level 5.
- Upton, Chris.
The Birmingham Parish Workhouse, 1730 – 1840.
(2019)
BCOL 41.11, Level 4 & L 41.11, Level 5.
- Ward, Roger.
Henry Matthews, Viscount Llandaff – The Unknown Home Secretary.
(2017)
L 78.1 MAT, Level 5.
- Waring, Roger.
The Stonebridge Railway.
(1994)
LF 47.33 STO, Level 5.
- Whitfield, Deryk.
A History of Rubery.
(2017).
L 92.5 RUB, Level 5.
- Whyman, Susan.
The Useful Knowledge of William Hutton, Culture and Industry in Eighteenth – Century Birmingham.
(2018)
BCOL 78.1 HUT, Level 4 & L 78.1 HUT, Level 5.
BLACK HISTORY COLLECTION
38. (Ed.) Adi, Hakim.
Black British History.
(2019)
A 941. 00496, Level 5.
- Akala.
Natives : Race & Class in the Ruins of Empire.
(2019)
305.800941 Level 4 & A 305.800941, Level 5.
- Boakye, Jeffrey.
Black, Listed : Black British Culture Explored.
(2019)
305.896041, Level 4 & A 305. 896041, Level 5.
- Bryan, Beverley, Dadzie, Stella & Scafe, Suzanne.
Heart of the Race : Black Women’s Lives in Britain.
(2018)
305.48896, Level 4 & A 305.48896, Level 5.
- Gentleman, Amelia.
The Windrush Betrayal : Exposing the Hostile Environment.
(2019)
325.41, Level 4 & A 325.41, Level 5.
- Grant, Colin.
Home Coming : Voices of the Windrush Generation.
(2019)
305.896972. Level 4 & A 305.896972, Level 5.
- Hervieux, Linda.
Forgotten : The Untold Story of D – Day’s Black Heroes.
(2019)
940.541273, Level 4 & A 940.541273, Level 5.
- Hirsch, Shirin.
In the shadow of Enoch Powell – Race, Locality and Resistance.
(2018)
A 305. 48896, Level 5.
- Lebron, Christopher.
The Making of Black Lives Matter : A Brief History of an Idea.
(2019)
305.896073, Level 4 & A 305.896073, Level 5.
- Nubia, Onyeka.
England’s Other Countrymen : Black Tudor Society.
(2019)
A 941.00496, Level 5.
- Peplow, Simon.
Race and Riots in Thatcher’s Britain.
(2019)
A 305. 800941, Level 5.
- Ramdin, Ron
The Making of the Black Working Class in Britain.
(2017)
305.896041, Level 4 & A 305.896041, Level 5.
- Sissay, Lemn.
My Name is Why.
(2019)
821.92, Level 4 & A 821.92, Level 5.
- Waters, Rob.
Thinking Black : Britain, 1964 – 1985.
(2018)
- 896041, Level 4 & A 305.896041, Level 5.
SERIALS
- (Ed), Morrison, David J.
Worcester Cathedral Dean and Chapter Treasurer’s Register, 1611 – 1669.
Worcestershire Historical Society New Series Vol. 28
(2018)
B 942.44, Level 5.
- (Ed.) Spinks, Philip & Judy.
First World War Military Service Tribunals : Warwick District Appeal Tribunal, 1916 – 1918.
Dugdale Society Publication, Vol. 50.
B 942.48, Level 5.
The Iron Room 