Little History of Birmingham

VANESSA MORGAN has lived in Worcestershire all her life and as a genealogist worked for 34 years researching family and local history in Worcestershire, Birmingham and Warwickshire. As a speaker she has a repertoire of talks, which she gives to different types of groups of all sizes – history societies, family history groups, Probus, WI etc. All her talks are on either historical topics or relate to family and local history. She has written numerous articles for genealogical magazines.

• TitleCopyrightContentsAuthor’s ForewordFrom Forest to Market TownA New Dawn for BirminghamThe Market Town Begins to GrowBirmingham in the 1700sBirmingham and the Industrial RevolutionAt the Beginning of the 1800sBirmingham in the Young Queen’s ReignA City is BornTwo Wars and in BetweenRebuilding BirminghamModern TimesBibliography

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