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This article is intended to show a timeline of events in the History of Birmingham, England, ... 1918–1919 – The Kings Norton Metal Company mints British pennies.
As late as 1976 the West Midlands region – with Birmingham as its principal economic dynamo – still had the highest GDP of any in the UK outside the South East, but within five years it was lowest in England. [309] Birmingham itself lost 200,000 jobs between 1971 and 1981, with the losses concentrated in the manufacturing sector; relative ...
Peaky Blinder families physically distanced themselves from Birmingham's centre into the countryside. With the Blinders' withdrawal from the criminal underworld, the Sabini gang moved in on the Birmingham Boys gang and solidified political control over Central England in the 1930s. [29] [30] [31]
This month, other mutinies take place in France and across England. [2] 18 January The Paris Peace Conference opens in France, [3] with delegates from 27 nations present for meetings at the Palace of Versailles; Lloyd George attends as one of the "Big Four". [4] Bentley Motors Ltd. is incorporated in England.
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The 1919 United Kingdom railway strike was an industrial dispute that lasted from midnight 26–27 September to 5 October 1919. The strike was called to prevent the government from reducing rates of pay that had been negotiated by the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen (ASLEF) and the National Union of Railwaymen (NUR) during the First World War and to standardize pay rates ...
Birmingham Boys (also known as the Brummagem [1] Boys or the Brum Boys) were a street gang whose power extended from the North of England to London's underworld, between the 1910s and 1930s. They lost control of the South East racecourses to the Sabini gang .