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{"title":"Changes in Attitudes to Immigrants in Britain, 1841-1921: From Foreigner to Alien","authors":"R. Lawson","doi":"10.1080/0047729X.2023.2250211","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0047729X.2023.2250211","url":null,"abstract":"improvement of Birmingham, including the introduction of public health measures in the town. While some may question the centrality of Small in forming Jefferson’s ideas for the Declaration of Independence and in the development of Watt and Boulton’s steam engine, there is no doubt that he helped to shape the ‘republic of letters’ in the eighteenth century. It is therefore fitting that he has his own biography, and this detailed volume should help to support future scholars to explore the relationships between the Midlands and the wider global networks of ideas, goods and peoples that were central to the ‘age of revolutions’.","PeriodicalId":41013,"journal":{"name":"Midland History","volume":"48 1","pages":"260 - 262"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41944234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A High Street Inheritance: Henley-in-Arden in 1419-20","authors":"S. Bassett, Sarah Wager","doi":"10.1080/0047729X.2023.2217227","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0047729X.2023.2217227","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The contents of a previously overlooked rental of the borough of Henley-in-Arden, composed in 1419–20 when the co-heirs to the Freville lands were trying to decide how to share out their inheritance, are presented and discussed. Rare in the combination of its extent and date, it provides an important view of tenurial arrangements in the borough in the aftermath of the plague outbreaks of the previous seventy years. Some elements of continuity can be identified, but the dominant impression is of major alterations having occurred in the relationship between the owner and his tenants. The survey’s significance is also considered in the wider context of the history of late medieval urbanism in the west midland region.","PeriodicalId":41013,"journal":{"name":"Midland History","volume":"48 1","pages":"125 - 157"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41828484","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Out of the Land of Ice and Fire: Icelandic Immigrants in the Midlands During the Fifteenth Century","authors":"Scott C. Lomax","doi":"10.1080/0047729X.2023.2217231","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0047729X.2023.2217231","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT English towns during the medieval period have, in recent years, become increasingly recognised as places of diversity, with some of their inhabitants born in several European regions. Studies of immigration have, however, focussed on port towns and large towns and with an emphasis on those who originated from mainland Europe. This study examines, for the first time, the intriguing communities of Icelanders who lived in the Midlands and asks what these individuals can tell us about England’s relations with Iceland. Up to four Icelanders lived in Nottingham and up to three in Coventry at any one time, serving mercers who may have traded stockfish and fish liver oil, which were sold in both towns. In exchange, Nottingham produced goods including alabaster altar pieces, which were given homes in churches in Iceland’s coastal towns.","PeriodicalId":41013,"journal":{"name":"Midland History","volume":"48 1","pages":"158 - 175"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42376130","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Victoria History of the Counties of England. A History of the County of Stafford: Volume XII, Tamworth and Drayton Bassett","authors":"M. Dick","doi":"10.1080/0047729x.2023.2250208","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0047729x.2023.2250208","url":null,"abstract":"The website of The Victoria County History claims that the publication series ‘is one of the world’s longest-running research projects, exploring England’s rich local history’. Managed by the University of London’s Institute of Historical Research, since 1899 large numbers of detailed, well-researched and descriptive ‘Red Books’ have provided starting points for anyone interested in local history. The success of the series depends on alliances of university history departments, county archives and independent scholars. Staffordshire is one county where this coalition has been particularly successful. Since 1993, a partnership between Staffordshire County Council and Keele University has resulted in the publication of five volumes researched and authored by Nigel Tringham. This volume covers Tamworth (the name comes from the river – the Tame – an Indo-European word meaning ‘flow’) and Drayton Bassett. There are also sections on individual settlements including Glascote, Fazeley, Hopwas and Wilnecote, each of which has a distinctive history. The book’s themes are similar to those in other county histories. Each area contains an introduction (including population and communications and previous histories, where relevant) and sections on settlement, landownership, economic history, local government, social history and religious history. In Tamworth’s case, the castle, the town’s most historic building, alongside St Editha’s church, has a segment to itself. Tamworth became an administrative centre under the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia and in 913, under Queen Æthelflæd, a burh or fortified settlement. The castle was built after the Norman Conquest and Tamworth developed as a market town. Canal development enabled Robert Peel the elder to turn Fazeley into a cotton manufacturing centre in the 1790s. His son, also called Robert, the MP for Tamworth and future prime minister, built Drayton Bassett mansion in 1835 (largely demolished in 1926). The site became an amusement park in 1950, now known as Drayton Manor Park. Glascote and Wilnecote emerged as centres for extracting coal and clay in the early nineteenth century and in the twentieth century, the Tamworth area became home to the Reliant Motor Company, which manufactured the four-wheel Scimitar sports car (1964) and three-wheel Robin (1973). Tamworth’s skyline is dominated by six tower blocks which are physical manifestations of population growth in the 1960s to house people from Birmingham. Despite redevelopment, Tamworth retains a medieval, early modern and nineteenth-century core, with many fascinating buildings, but physically much of the townscape contains retail outlets and council and private estates built since the late twentieth century. There are many human stories. One relates to Bruno Hamel, a refugee from Revolutionary France in the 1790s who established a dynasty of artists, manufacturers and mayors. The Notes on Sources (xivxvii) is especially helpful to the researcher. This","PeriodicalId":41013,"journal":{"name":"Midland History","volume":"48 1","pages":"257 - 258"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46919299","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Women, Late Chartism, and the Land Plan in Nottinghamshire","authors":"Matthew Roberts","doi":"10.1080/0047729x.2023.2217226","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0047729x.2023.2217226","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores the relationship between working-class women and Chartism, focusing chiefly on Nottingham. It argues that the opportunities for women to participate in the movement were much more varied and enduring than previous historians have often supposed. One of the reasons why women were so prominent by the time of Chartism in the 1840s was because of a tradition of political participation. Even by the period of late Chartism (post-1842), women were still participating in popular politics, and nowhere more so than in the Land Plan, a scheme to resettle urban workers on the land. Drawing on a database of some 2,300 Nottinghamshire members of the Land Plan, the evidence suggests that the region’s women were more likely to join, and on their own volition, have their own jobs and possess a degree of independence that was not the case elsewhere.","PeriodicalId":41013,"journal":{"name":"Midland History","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136375472","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Midland History Summer 2023","authors":"M. Dick","doi":"10.1080/0047729x.2023.2250212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0047729x.2023.2250212","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41013,"journal":{"name":"Midland History","volume":"48 1","pages":"123 - 124"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49456632","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Forced Loan and Men Fit to Serve as Soldiers, 1523","authors":"I. Atherton","doi":"10.1080/0047729x.2023.2182521","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0047729x.2023.2182521","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41013,"journal":{"name":"Midland History","volume":"48 1","pages":"118 - 119"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44102303","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Buildings of England: Birmingham and the Black Country","authors":"Alexander Hibberts","doi":"10.1080/0047729x.2023.2182516","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0047729x.2023.2182516","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41013,"journal":{"name":"Midland History","volume":"48 1","pages":"113 - 114"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43164643","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Medieval Birmingham. People and places, 1070–1553","authors":"C. Dyer","doi":"10.1080/0047729x.2023.2182517","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0047729x.2023.2182517","url":null,"abstract":"extensive survey of post-war architecture that reflects recent redevelopment of the West Midlands. Pointedly, the entire volume is dedicated to the memory of Birmingham Central Library (John Madin Design Group, 1969–74) ‘destroyed’ in 2016. Will the new library (Mecanoo, 2010–13) be similarly demolished when it too falls out of favour? The inclusion of the Shri Venkateswara Balaji Temple in Rowley Regis (Adam Hardy, V. Rao, and Associates, 1997–2006) is a welcome recognition of the region’s diverse religious landscape. The entire volume is considerably enhanced by James O. Davies’s sensitive and versatile photography. Whilst the first editions of the Buildings of England suffered from grainy black and white images, the revised version published by Yale University Press does not. Pictures are a powerful medium for dispelling popular misconceptions of places such as Wolverhampton, Bilston, Solihull, or Walsall enabling Birmingham and the Black Country to celebrate some of England’s least known and underappreciated urban areas. Foster’s epitaph for Wolverhampton – ‘unjustly neglected’ – could be applied to the West Midlands more generally. Thus, this new edition partakes in two traditions. First, Foster treads in the footsteps of many proud local historians, such as N. W. Tildesley and his History of Willenhall (1952). Second, in examining the West Midlands in their own context and terms, Foster builds upon the underestimated role of the Buildings of England in promoting the value of regional architecture. As Foster passionately argues, the Black Country and Birmingham contain as rich a variety of architecture – whether timber-framed, brick, ashlar, steel, or concrete – as anywhere else. It is a real pleasure to read a book that lauds neither north nor south, but the often-forgotten Midlands who have their own abundant history too. Let us hope that city councillors and urban planners, in whose hands the future of this built heritage rests, are listening carefully.","PeriodicalId":41013,"journal":{"name":"Midland History","volume":"48 1","pages":"114 - 115"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42174068","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Editorial Midland History Spring 2023","authors":"M. Dick","doi":"10.1080/0047729x.2023.2182498","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0047729x.2023.2182498","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41013,"journal":{"name":"Midland History","volume":"48 1","pages":"1 - 2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48045375","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}