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FALL AND RISE OF ASPIRIN
The author has long been interested in how plant derived substances can prove beneficial to Medicine. Writings on papyrus from the earliest times have described the use of willow …
The "Acci"
Birmingham Accident Hospital, fondly known as The Acci, was established to manage the victims of the Birmingham Blitz, enemy action overseas and those injured in the Midland's …
LIFE OF WILLIAM HUTTON
This text is a new edition of a biography of the 18th-century historian William Hutton.
LIFE AND TIMES OF WILLIAM WITHERING
William Withering whilst travelling from Birmingham to Stafford and stopping to change horses, was asked to see a patient suffering from the dropsy. A few weeks later, enquiring …
Managing a Conurbation
The University of Birmingham hosts the annual conference of The British Association in Autumn 1996. This title comprises the papers delivered at the conference.
IndigoOpium
British India in the middle of the 19th century and two enterprising families from modest origins who made immense fortunes, one from growing and processing indigo and the other …
Poverty and Opportunity
A history of the Birmingham Settlement from Victorian roots to 20th century social work as a registered charity.
Olive: Princess of Cumberland (1772-1834) - A Royal Scandal
This is the gripping story of a truly remarkable woman who claimed in her later life to be a legitimate niece of King George III, by his brother Henry Duke of Cumberland. It is a …
Faire and Goodly Built
Faire and Goodly Built is the fascinating and thoughtprovoking story of the collegiate church of St. Mary, Warwick, until its rebuilding after the Great Fire of 1694. Author Tim …
Shirley Family
The Shirley Family: One Thousand Years of English History tells the story of one of the country's oldest families. First documented living in Warwickshire in the eleventh century, …
SOUNDS UNLIKELY
Moving through the ages, from the chantries of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, to the busy eighteenth century organists whose enterprise led to the great nineteenth century …