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First festival of Birmingham history
Museums
Preparations now well under way for week-long event which will celebrate the finest aspects of city's past
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Land Rover Show makes welcome return to Heritage Motor Centre
Jaguar Land Rover
The Land Rover Show is returning to the Heritage Motor Centre in Gaydon on June 27 and 28 in what has been hailed as a huge coup for the museum
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Hidden Spaces: Subterranean Birmingham - exploring the world beneath our feet
Hidden Spaces
We've carved beneath the city an invisible network of service tunnels, subways, crypts, catacombs, bomb shelters, cellars, mine shafts, railway lines and roads, writes Ben Waddington
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Hidden Spaces Unlocked: Full listings for June 2015 open days and events
Hidden Spaces
2015 Hidden Spaces ‘Unlocked’ events programme follows the feedback from hugely popular Curzon Street Station exhibition
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New secrets of Staffordshire Hoard revealed
Economic Development
Pair of objects rebuilt dating back to seventh century Anglo-Saxon England are placed on display at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
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Three is magic number for unusual car collector
Economic Development
James Holland as a unique collection of 35 Staffordshire-made cars from Robin three-wheelers to sleek Scimitar sports cars.
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New book reveals how son of George Cadbury grew the chocolate empire
Economic Development
A book has revealed new insights and never before seen images of Laurence Cadbury, the son of philanthropist George Cadbury, founder of the Bournville Village Trust.
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Museums at Night events you can visit in Birmingham and beyond
Retail & Consumer
Coffin Works, Black Country Museum and Herbert Art Gallery are among the venues taking part in this annual event until May 16, 2015
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Art exhibition to die for at Newman Brothers Coffin Works in Jewellery Quarter
Economic Development
Evening display as part of national Museums at Night programme
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Matthew Boulton's tea urn is Birmingham Museums Trust's object of the month for May
Enterprise
The urn becomes the fifth of a series of objects of the month the Museums Trust is unveiling through the Birmingham Post to highlight the finest civic collection in England
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Former DeLorean director helps organise first ever reunion for car-maker
Economic Development
The original DeLorean Motor Company (DMC) was formed by automobile industry executive John DeLorean in 1975
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Nostalgic look at Birmingham Wholesale Markets ahead of £500m scheme
Commercial Property
The markets site has a unique heritage and here we take a look back over its time as a thriving hub in the city centre
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A hidden trail in the busiest space
Birmingham New Street Station
New Street showcase for architecture project which delves behind the scenes of some of the city's most important and interesting buildings
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Countdown to Andy Warhol and William Morris exhibition
Enterprise
Preparations in full swing at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery for important displays showing six rare tapestries by Morris & Co. and portraits by Warhol
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Selly Manor's secret history revealed
Retail & Consumer
Former residents of famous Birmingham house included cow keeper, pub landlord and bailiff
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Modest water heater that changed family life is Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery's Object of the Month for April
Enterprise
The Parkinson Stove Company of Birmingham made the Pearl gas water heater in the 1920s
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Chance to grill Paradise Birmingham developers at consultation
Paradise Circus
Three events will be put on giving insight to the public into the regeneration scheme previously known as Paradise Circus
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Tibor Reich textile designs to go on display at city university
Enterprise
Exhibition of Reich textile designs at Birmingham City University celebrates long relationship between Reich family and the Midlands
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First look at Birmingham's new Spitfire Gallery at Thinktank
Economic Development
The new gallery will explore the design, manufacture and use of the Spitfire and Hurricane
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Tory candidate Afzal Amin must be thrown out, Ed Miliband claims
Economic Development
The Dudley North candidate is accused of scheming with the English Defence League to announce an inflammatory march against a new “mega-mosque”
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Beleaguered Library of Birmingham makes top 10 attractions list
Economic Development
The library has been placed alongside the likes of the National Gallery and Southbank Centre in the list drawn up by the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions (ALVA)
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Plans to demolish Madin's NatWest Tower opposed
Colmore Row
Bodies including English Heritage call for 22-storey tower in Colmore Row to be re-used rather than knocked down ahead of planning committee decision
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Barber Institute's Auerbach painting becomes gallery's first by a living artist
Enterprise
Barber Institute's allocated work is a large oil painting on board depicting London’s Primrose Hill, near Auerbach’s home in Camden
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£122,000 fifth birthday gift for Grand Union contemporary art gallery in Digbeth
Enterprise
Over last five years Grand Union has shown 28 exhibitions, worked with over 200 artists and commissioned the same number of new artworks
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