Online Birmingham Links

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History, Genealogy and Society

• William Dargue's excellent history of Birmingham places.
• Birmingham Conservation Trust have some excellent current conservation projects.
• Wikipedia page on everything to do with Birmingham.
• GENUKI genealogical site for Birmingham.
• West Midlands births, deaths and marriages.
• The Birmingham and Midland Society of Genealogy and Heraldry (BMSGH).
• A growing site on the history of Aston.
• A Winson Green site.
• Birmingham Library's Handsworth page.
• Perry Barr
• A Ladywood site including many street scenes from the 1960s, plus schools.
• An extremely informative site on workhouses and asylums in Birmingham and elsewhere.
• Birmingham & District Local History Association (they publish the Birmingham Historian magazine).
• Information on contemporary Birmingham.
• A Birmingham University site of general local interest.
• Warwickshire genealogical and historical miscellany (including much of the 1891 Birmingham census).
• Brewin Books offers many excellent books on Birmingham and West Midlands history.
• Birmingham cemeteries.
• West Midlands police museum with hints on tracing your "geneology" (sic)!

Industry and Transport

• A collection of everything Made in Birmingham.
• A beautiful site on amongst other things Birmingham pens.
• The Cadbury's chocolate company history from 1824 on (site based in New Zealand!).
• History of Dunlop from 1891 in Birmingham.
• The 250-year story of Chambers Gunmakers of London and Birmingham.
• A history of gunproofing in Birmingham.
• The Birmingham gun museum.
• History of the Birmingham Mint est. 1794.
• The Jewellery Quarter.
• Historical walk through The Jewellery Quarter.
• Official homepage of the Birmingham and Midland Museum of Transport.
• Worcester Birmingham Canal Society.
• The Birmingham Thinktank Museum's shocking website.

Publications

• The excellent Victorian History of the County of Warwickshire volume on Birmingham.
• Hutton W, A History of Birmingham (1783).
• Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham.

Miscellaneous

• All about our ancestors' occupations.
• Cyndislist Warwickshire.
• Mormons incl. IGI, 1881 census and the excellent free PAF genealogical database package.
• Commonwealth Wargraves Commission.

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