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John Freeth and his Circle or Birmingham Men of the Last Century - members of the Birmingham Book Club pictured in 1792 by John Eckstein.. The Birmingham Book Club, known to its opponents during the 1790s as the Jacobin Club due to its political radicalism, [1] and at times also as the Twelve Apostles, [2] was a book club and debating society based in Birmingham, England from the 18th to the ...
Midland History is a peer-reviewed academic journal of the history of the Midlands region of England. It was established in 1971 [ 1 ] and is published by Taylor & Francis for the University of Birmingham .
Frederick William Hackwood FRHS (18 April 1851 – 4 December 1926) was an English teacher, antiquarian, journalist, and prolific non-fiction writer who produced more than 30 books. He was born in Wednesbury , West Midlands and served that town as a justice of the peace, historian, and councillor.
Business History 59.1 (2017): 56-74 online. Finberg, H.P.R. The early charters of the West Midlands (Leicester University Press, 1972). Gelling, Margaret. The West Midlands in the Early Middle Ages (Leicester UP, 1992). Hilton, R. H. A Medieval Society: The West Midlands at the End of the Thirteenth Century (1987) online review
The Lunar Society of Birmingham was a British dinner club and informal learned society of prominent figures in the Midlands Enlightenment, including industrialists, natural philosophers and intellectuals, who met regularly between 1765 and 1813 in Birmingham. At first called the Lunar Circle, "Lunar Society" became the formal name by 1775.
To be nominated for a SCASL award a book cannot have any negative reviews, the committee librarian said. Superintendent Akil Ross commended the committee on the research and commitment to the process.
It is often simply called a book club, a term that may cause confusion with a book sales club. Other terms include reading group , book group , and book discussion group . Book discussion clubs may meet in private homes, libraries , bookstores , online forums, pubs, and cafés, or restaurants, sometimes over meals or drinks.
He is the author of over thirty books on the history of Birmingham and the urban working class in England. He often appears on local television programmes such as Midlands Today; and wrote a weekly local history column for the Express & Star. [7] He presented a weekly radio programme on BBC WM from 1994 until it was axed in 2013. He has made ...