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Come along to our Dickensian Christmas Open Day on 14th December, 10am-4pm 🎄. We have a wide range of artists and artisans ready and willing to sell you their wares, just in time for Santa! There [...]

We shall recommend novels by Julia Barnes, Johnathon Coe, Lindsay Davis, Natalie Haynes, Ian McEwan, Joseph O’Connor and Preti Taneja amongst others as suggested reading for winter evenings. We [...]

Humans have marvelled at the nights sky for millennia and continue to do so today.  James Dawson will talk about what the modern amateur astronomer can achieve from their own back garden.

Dr Trevor James will introduce his current research into the underlying pattern of saintly evidence that still surrounds us.

The Royal Shakespeare Company is ensuring that an oft-neglected text gets considerable measure of attention by making it the only Shakespeare play that they will be presenting over the Christmas [...]

Project Overview BMI Live is designed to encourage young artists and performers to devise original literature shows and generate new responses to The Birmingham and Midland Institute. This is an [...]

Between 1873-1948 around 6,000 destitute children were emigrated from the Birmingham Children’s Emigration Homes, to Canada. Some went to work on farms in the remote backwoods while others went [...]

On the day of what would have been George Eliot’s 200th birthday (had she lived so long) we shall tackle what is generally agreed to be her finest novel. Shall we be tempted to endorse Noël [...]

From an early age, Bernie was aware that his paternal grandfather, whom he never met, came from a faraway place.  it wasn’t until he began to investigate his family history that he [...]