Two of our talented volunteers have made their second trip the Central Birmingham Social Media Surgery to brush up on their skills as bloggers. As the write up on last night’s event puts it Emma Neil and Hannah Severn from The Birmingham Conservation ...
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Bells Farm in 1969 - photo by Phyllis Nicklin from the Birmingham University Archive Dave Thomas, one of our volunteers has sent us this update which I thought we would share with you: I’m really interested in old buildings and the work that Birmingham ...
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Last week Jon Bounds and I spent a night in London as part of some work we were doing. Both of us booked our hotel through the Birmingham Conservation Trust web shop: www.buy.at/birminghamconservation As a result the Conservation Trust took a proportion of each ...
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Like lots of other organisations, the Birmingham Conservation Trust wouldn’t exist or be able to function without the time, enthusiasm and energy of our fabulous volunteers. So we thought we’d share a little bit about who some of them are and what ...
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Volunteers, staff and contractors worked together on the huge and detailed job of cataloguing the contents of Newman Bros Every year Engish Heritage publishes a regional and national survey of the state of our heritage and today Heritage Counts 2008 (link to a ...
read moreStories, stories, stories. That’s what history is. But someone has to tell them. If you’re interested in the overlap between British and Sikh heritage then you can help. With its organisational motto and mission statement of “bringing history and cultures ...
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The BBC, Arts Council, Audiences Central and others has launched a hugely ambitious arts project for the West Midlands – one which you can join. I know from the Birmingham Flickr group how many people are passionate about taking pictures of ...
read moreThe National Trust is looking for two new people to help them reach members of BME communities in the West Midlands. The four year “Whose Story” project will include work to involve a wider range of communities in contributing to ...
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Work will soon begin on cataloguing and storing the contents of Newman Brothers, a critical part of recording the story of the building and the business and preparing for building work. Hundreds of you have already had a chance to visit the building ...
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