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The West Midlands is a region of geographical, topographical and geological contrasts, forming disparate landscapes that are reflected in the nature and diversity of its rich archaeology. This ranges from evidence of its prehistory to the important industrial heritage of its major conurbations. This book represents an attempt by the region's archaeologists to draw these varying archaeological landscapes together to produce a research framework and agenda for their future management. This is based on a comprehensive evaluation of the archaeological resource and has allowed new research directio

Excavations (Archaeology) --- West Midlands (England) --- Antiquities.

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"The West Midlands has struggled archaeologically to project a distinct regional identity, having largely been defined by reference to other areas with a stronger cultural identity and history, such as Wessex the South-West, and the North. Only occasionally has the West Midlands come to prominence, for instance in the middle Saxon period (viz. the kingdom of Mercia), or, much later, with rural south Shropshire being the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution. Yet it is a region rich in natural mineral resources, set amidst readily productive farmland, and with major rivers, such as the Severn, facilitating transportation. The scale of its later prehistoric monuments, notably the hillforts, proclaims the centralisation of some functions, whether for security, exchange or emulation, while society supported the production and widespread distribution of specialised craft goods. Finally, towards the close of prehistory, localised kingdoms can be seen to emerge into view. In the course of reviewing the evidence for later prehistory from the Middle Bronze Age to Late Iron Age, the papers presented here adopt a variety of approaches, being either regional, county-wide, or thematic (eg. by site type, or artefactual typology), and they also encompass the wider landscape as reconstructed from environmental evidence. This is the second volume in a series--The Making of the West Midlands--that explores the archaeology of the English West Midlands region from the Lower Palaeolithic onwards. These volumes, based on a series of West Midlands Research Framework seminars, aim to transform perceptions of the nature and significance of the archaeological evidence across a large part of central Britain"--Publisher description.

Bronze age --- Iron age --- Prehistoric peoples --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Landscape archaeology --- Social archaeology --- Archaeology --- Cultural landscapes --- Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- Cavemen (Prehistoric peoples) --- Early man --- Man, Prehistoric --- Prehistoric archaeology --- Prehistoric human beings --- Prehistoric humans --- Prehistory --- Human beings --- Antiquities, Prehistoric --- Civilization --- Methodology --- West Midlands (England) --- West Midlands, Eng. --- West Midlands (England : Metropolitan County) --- West Midlands (England : Region) --- West Midlands County (England) --- County of West Midlands (England) --- West Midlands Region (England) --- Herefordshire (England) --- Shropshire (England) --- Staffordshire (England) --- Worcestershire (England) --- Warwickshire (England) --- Antiquities. --- Primitive societies

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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)