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Lockdown Learning: Poetry of the Black Country Landscape

Every week during the Covid-19 lockdown, the Black Country Studies Centre will be bringing you videos and blogposts about life in the Black Country, past, present and future. Expert speakers will give you insights to their subject and research, as well as sharing their recommendations and links for finding out Read more…

By Jenny Gilbert, 9 months9 months ago

Black Country Studies Research Network II: Black Country Landscapes

Image: Multistorey, Wolverhampton by Tom Hicks – Black Country Type The Black Country landscape has always been, and remains, diverse. From the bucolic idyll of the Leasowes to the once-smoking chimneys’ of Chances; the fossil-rich limestone of the Wren’s Nest to the tainted earth where the Blue Billies once smouldered; Read more…

By Jenny Gilbert, 11 months1 year ago