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This volume focuses on the closely allied yet differing linguistic varieties of Birmingham and its immediate neighbour to the west, the industrial heartland of the Black Country. Both of these areas rose to economic prominence and success during the Industrial Revolution, and both have suffered economically and socially as a result of post-war industrial decline. The industrial heritage of both areas has meant that tight knit and socially homogeneous individual areas in each region have demonstrated in many respects little linguistic change over time, and have continued to exhibit linguistic features, especially morphological constructions, peculiar to these areas or now restricted to these areas. At the same time, immigration from other areas of the British Isles over time, from Commonwealth countries and later from EU member states, together with increased social mobility, have meant that newly developing structures and more widespread UK linguistic phenomena have spread into these varieties. This volume provides a clear description of the structure of the linguistic varieties spoken in the two areas.

English language --- Dialectology --- Birmingham [England] --- West Midlands --- West Midlands [region] --- Germanic languages --- Dialects --- English language - Dialects - England - Birmingham --- English language - Dialects - England - Black Country

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Irish music enjoyed popularity across Europe and North America in the second half of the twentieth century. Regional circumstances created a unique reception for such music in the English Midlands. This book is a musical ethnography of Birmingham, 1950-2010. Initially establishing geographical and chronological parameters, the book cites Birmingham's location at the hub of a road and communications network as key to the development of Irish music across a series of increasingly visible, publ...

Folk music --- Ethnic music --- Traditional music --- Folklore --- Music --- History and criticism. --- Birmingham (England) --- Social life and customs. --- Birmingham, Eng. --- Birmingham (West Midlands, England) --- City and Borough of Birmingham (England) --- Borough of Birmingham (England)

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Industrial Enlightenment explores the transition through which England passed between 1760 and 1820 on the way to becoming the world's first industrialised nation. In drawing attention to the important role played by scientific knowledge, it focuses on a dimension of this transition which is often overlooked by historians. The book argues that in certain favoured regions, England underwent a process whereby useful knowledge was fused with technological 'know how' to produce the condition described here as Industrial Enlightenment. At the forefront of the process were the natural philosophers who entered into a close and productive relationship with technologists and entrepreneurs. Much of the evidence for this study is drawn from the extraordinary archival record of the activities of Matthew Boulton (1728-1809) and his Soho Manufactory. The book will appeal to those keen to explore the dynamics of change in eighteenth-century England, and to those with a broad interest in the cultural history of science and technology.

Science and industry --- Industrial revolution --- Industry and science --- Industries --- Revolution, Industrial --- Economic history --- Social history --- History. --- Birmingham (England) --- Birmingham, Eng. --- Birmingham (West Midlands, England) --- City and Borough of Birmingham (England) --- Borough of Birmingham (England) --- History --- Révolution industrielle --- Sciences et industrie --- Birmingham (Angleterre) --- Histoire --- Birmingham. --- French Revolution. --- Industrial Enlightenment. --- Napoleonic Wars. --- Soho. --- West Midlands. --- eighteenth-century Britain. --- knowledge economy. --- protestant Nonconformity. --- religious complexion. --- science cultures. --- technological process.

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In every major city, there exists a complex exchange between urban space and the institution of the theatre. City Stages is an interdisciplinary and materialist analysis of this relationship as it has existed in Toronto since 1967. Locating theatre companies - their sites and practices - in Toronto's urban environment, Michael McKinnie focuses on the ways in which the theatre has adapted to changes in civic ideology, environment, and economy. Over the past four decades, theatre in Toronto has been increasingly implicated in the civic self-fashioning of the city and preoccupied with the consequences of the changing urban political economy. City Stages investigates a number of key questions that relate to this pattern. How has theatre been used to justify certain forms of urban development in Toronto? How have local real estate markets influenced the ways in which theatre companies acquire and use performance space? How does the analysis of theatre as an urban phenomenon complicate Canadian theatre historiography? McKinnie uses the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts and the Toronto Centre for the Performing Arts as case studies and considers theatrical companies such as Theatre Passe Muraille, Toronto Workshop Productions, Buddies in Bad Times, and Necessary Angel in his analysis. City Stages combines primary archival research with the scholarly literature emerging from both the humanities and social sciences. The result is a comprehensive and empirical examination of the relationship between the theatrical arts and the urban spaces that house them.

Theater --- Theater and society --- History --- Actors --- Society and theater --- Dramatics --- Histrionics --- Professional theater --- Stage --- Theatre --- Social status --- Social aspects --- Theaters --- History. --- Performing arts --- Acting --- Opera-houses --- Playhouses (Theaters) --- Theatres --- Arts facilities --- Auditoriums --- Centers for the performing arts --- Music-halls --- Herefordshire (England) --- Worcestershire (England) --- Sources. --- Worcester (England : County) --- Worcestershire, Eng. --- Worcestershire --- County of Worcestershire (England) --- Hereford and Worcester (England) --- West Midlands (England) --- Herefordshire, Eng. --- Hereford (England : County) --- Herefordshire --- County of Herefordshire (England)

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This book is concerned with the eighteenth-century typographer, printer, industrialist and Enlightenment figure, John Baskerville (1707-75). Baskerville was a Birmingham inventor, entrepreneur and artist with a worldwide reputation who made eighteenth-century Birmingham a city without typographic equal, by changing the course of type design. Baskerville not only designed one of the world's most historically important typefaces, he also experimented with casting and setting type, improved the construction of the printing-press, developed a new kind of paper and refined the quality of printing inks. His typographic experiments put him ahead of his time, had an international impact and did much to enhance the printing and publishing industries of his day. Yet despite his importance, fame and influence many aspects of Baskerville's work and life remain unexplored and his contribution to the arts, industry, culture and society of the Enlightenment are largely unrecognized. Moreover, recent scholarly research in archaeology, art and design, history, literary studies and typography, is leading to a fundamental reassessment of many aspects of Baskerville's life and impact, including his birthplace, his work as an industrialist, the networks which sustained him and the reception of his printing in Britain and overseas. The last major, but inadequate publication of Baskerville dates from 1975. Now, forty years on, the time is ripe for a new book. This interdisciplinary approach provides an original contribution to printing history, eighteenth-century studies and the dissemination of ideas.

655.262 <41> --- 929 <41> "17" --- Biografie. Genealogie. Heraldiek--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland--18e eeuw. Periode 1700-1799.--(eveneens voor boeken over recht periode 1789-1799) --- Boekdesign--algemeen--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- 655.262 <41> Boekdesign--algemeen--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- 655.262 <41> Typographic design of the text. Aesthetic questions, text division and layout, arrangement of illustrations etc.--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Typographic design of the text. Aesthetic questions, text division and layout, arrangement of illustrations etc.--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Baskerville, John --- Printing --- Early printed books --- Printers --- Type and type-founding --- History --- Baskerville, John, --- Fonts (Printing) --- Founts (Printing) --- Metal types --- Type faces --- Typefaces --- Founding --- Typesetting --- Bibliography --- Books --- Printing, Practical --- Typography --- Graphic arts --- Baskerville, Joannes, --- Baskerville, J. --- Baskerville, G. --- Birmingham (England) --- Birmingham (Angleterre) --- Histoire --- Birmingham, Eng. --- Birmingham (West Midlands, England) --- City and Borough of Birmingham (England) --- Borough of Birmingham (England)