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Join Dan & Samina as they provide updates on the BMI and what’s happening since the last forum and a look ahead to the rest of 2020.  This is your opportunity to ask questions and find [...]

Join the National Trusts Curator Charlotte Holmes as she talks about the exciting new plans for the Back to Backs at Inge Street, with the creation of new programmed activity around the Windrush [...]

Did Elizabeth Siddall’s hair really grow in her coffin? Why did Effie Gray really divorce Ruskin? Did Rossetti really seduce all his models? Why was Swinburne considered so shocking? What [...]

Stephen will take us on a journey across an hundred years, describing the development of the Birmingham streetscape from a Georgian Town to a powerful Victorian City.

Dr Brian Dakin is Aston University lecturer and using spoken word as well as performance, he will introduce you to one of our “Best kept secrets.”  Charlie “Chas” Grigg [...]

It is fifteen years – which is far too long – since we last devoted a day to Jane Austen’s final (and best?) novel. Naval matters, marriages, social aspirations and rivalry between sisters are [...]

Millie and Christine McCoy were African American conjoined twins, born into slavery in America’s Deep South in 1851. They were stolen from their family at an early age, and trafficked around [...]

This event sees the projection of Segundo de Chomon’s silent The War and Momi’s Dream (1917) – thought to be the first Italian animated movie. The screening will be accompanied by an [...]

This event sees the projection of Segundo de Chomon’s silent The War and Momi’s Dream (1917) – thought to be the first Italian animated movie. The screening will be accompanied by an [...]

The tribulations of those boys from Syracuse become the excuse for riotous comedy, whereas the fevered imaginings of the King of Sicilia have tragic consequences. Nevertheless, although these two [...]