With Dr Elizabeth J Done (University of Plymouth, UK), Helen Knowler (University of Wolverhampton, UK), Dr Jenny Gilbert (BCLM) and Sharan Dhanda (BCLM). Join the BCSC as we launch a collaborative research project exploring naughtiness in the Black Country. Do you remember your school days with fondness or fear? Many Read more…
The University of Wolverhampton Christmas-Time Lecture is now in its 5th year and still going strong. Using the festive song ‘When Santa Got Stuck Up The Chimney’ as our muse, this year’s University of Wolverhampton Christmas-Time Lecture will take a humorous look at what might happen to poor old Santa Read more…
We’re happy to bring you the recording of our ‘in conversation’ event with author and BCLM historian, Simon Briercliffe and University of Wolverhampton’s Professor Keith Gildart. Join them as they discuss Black Country identity, rock n roll and industry…
Maybe you missed it the first time around or perhaps you enjoyed it so much that you want to relive the experience… The BCSC and University of Wolverhampton’s Arts Fest Online are please to present our full Festival of Britain @ 70 series to watch online. Throughout summer 2021, we Read more…
The BCSC has joined forces with ArtsFest Online for this special ‘in conversation’ event. Join Historian and BCLM Researcher Simon Briercliffe and University of Wolverhampton Professor of Labour and Social History Keith Gildart, as they discuss the working class history of the Black Country. The discussion will focus on Simon’s Read more…
Think you can tell your science fact from your science fiction? Join the BCSC and some fiendish friends for our second annual Halloween online event. This time around, we’ll be looking at the Black Country’s links with science fiction and exploring some of the weird and wonderful aspects of the Read more…
The BCSC Halloween Online Special Thursday 28th October, 7-9pm, Zoom After last year’s spine-chilling Black Country Gothic event, we’re gathering around the virtual fireside again for an evening of spooky science fiction (and science fact!), all with a distinctive Black Country twist. Expect mutants, mummies, monsters, machines and tales of Read more…
This is the launch event for The Dereliction, a new book by Liz Berry and Tom Hicks. The Dereliction is a love letter to the Black Country. Liz Berry’s poems have been praised for their use of the vernacular, the twang of West Midlands dialect. Her poems are matched with Tom Hicks’s Read more…
Artsfest Online and the Black Country Studies Centre are pleased to present a series of events commemorating the 70 years anniversary of the Festival and its impact in the Black Country. ‘We Are Illuminated’, undertaken with The New Art Gallery Walsall, was a project concerned with the leisure life of Read more…
Artsfest Online and the Black Country Studies Centre are pleased to present a series of events commemorating the 70 years anniversary of the Festival and its impact in the Black Country. A new location for a market in Wolverhampton was proposed in the 1930s. After World War II a more Read more…