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The Saltley Handaxe illustrated by John Evans in 1897. The oldest human artefact found within Birmingham is the Saltley Handaxe: a 500,000-year-old brown quartzite hand axe about 100 millimetres (3.9 in) long, discovered in the gravels of the River Rea at Saltley in 1892.
Birmingham was the terminus for both of the world's first two long-distance railway lines: the 82-mile (132 km) Grand Junction Railway of 1837 and the 112-mile (180 km) London and Birmingham Railway of 1838. [86] Birmingham schoolteacher Rowland Hill invented the postage stamp and created the first modern universal postal system in 1839. [87]
Map of West Midlands, showing urban areas in grey and metropolitan district boundaries Population density map. The West Midlands is a landlocked county that borders the counties of Warwickshire to the east, Worcestershire to the south, and Staffordshire to the north and west.
The University of Birmingham is the main university in the region [37] and has the most funding. It has a large research grant, as does the University of Warwick, which is the next largest in terms of funding. Birmingham and Warwick are members of the Russell Group of public research universities. Keele and Aston have a moderate research grant ...
This is a list of the constituent towns, villages and areas of Birmingham (both the city and the metropolitan borough) in England. Between 1889 and 1995, the city boundaries were expanded to include many places which were once towns or villages in their own right, many of which still retain a distinctive character.
History of the border. The near-simultaneous collapse of the Brythonic Kingdom of Strathclyde [6] and the disintegration of the Anglian Earldom of Bamburgh in the 11th century removed ancient realms that had long kept the regions distinct, enabling the southward expansion of Gaelic Alba and the spread of Norman rule in northern England.
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Pages in category "History of Birmingham, West Midlands" The following 180 pages are in this category, out of 180 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .