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Irish music abroad : diasporic sounds in Birmingham
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ISBN: 1443843806 9781443843805 1443840378 9781443840378 Year: 2012 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub.,

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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...


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Speeches that changed Britain : Oratory in Birmingham
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ISBN: 1905036248 9781905036240 9781905036233 Year: 2015 Publisher: Alcester, Warwickshire, England : West Midland History,


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Industrial enlightenment
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ISBN: 1526130319 9781526130310 9780719077708 0719077702 9780719089121 0719089123 9780719089121 Year: 2008 Publisher: Manchester, UK New York New York Manchester University Press Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan

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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.


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John Baskerville : art and industry of the Enlightenment
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ISBN: 9781786940643 1786940647 1786945142 1786948605 Year: 2017 Publisher: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press

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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.

Remaking Birmingham : the visual culture of urban regeneration
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ISBN: 1280156414 0203643976 0203653149 9780203653142 9780203643976 041528838X 9780415288385 0415288398 9780415288392 9781134442584 9781134442539 9781134442577 1134442572 Year: 2004 Publisher: New York, NY : Routledge,

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The city of Birmingham offers a particularly rich case study on urban regeneration as it strives to build a new city image. Positioned between decline and regeneration, the landscape of the city and its environs collages old and new, producing dramatic contrasts - of industrial and post-industrial urbanisms of crumbling brutalism and spectacular flagship developments, of Victorian housing and diverse cultural lifestyles - that compound the aesthetic and socio-economic means of regeneration. This visually exciting book also reflects upon and extends current debates about public space, cultural

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