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Chris Upton: Clinging to hope of a revival of past glories
Economic Development
At Newman I teach a second year module in which the students have to research the history of a West Midland town (usually their own) and give a presentation of 25 minutes or so on their research.
Shedding some light on stained glass
Retail & Consumer
Chris Upton examines the history of some of the finest stained glass in the country 鈥 which happens to be Belgian.
Chris Upton: Automated check-outs? They've got me beaten
Economic Development
Let me be personal here. Life in the 21st century is one unremitting and largely unsuccessful struggle with new technology.
The Darwin history forgot
Retail & Consumer
Son of Erasmus and father of Charles, Robert Darwin hardly left a mark.
The birth of the mining industry among Staffordshire's coal fields
Retail & Consumer
Chris Upton looks at the rise and fall of one of the Midlands鈥 largest coal fields north of Birmingham
Chris Upton: David Cameron and the quest for the holy grail of Happiness
Economic Development
Last week the Prime Minister launched what we might call the 海角视频 Happiness Index.
Chris Upton: Let's hope history will not repeat itself, Kate
Economic Development
If you鈥檙e looking for a royal wedding talking-point, you might ask: How many queens of England have there been called Catherine?
Grand aspirations for Wolverhampton's theatre
Retail & Consumer
Chris Upton discovers how Wolverhampton鈥檚 Grand Theatre became the beating heart of a town.
Chris Upton: Throwing the book at decor
Economic Development
If you have been to one of those hotels that like to think of themselves as posh, you鈥檒l find that it has a library.
Destination Utopia
Retail & Consumer
A small settlement in the Cotswolds is the spiritual ancestor of co-op communes, writes Chris Upton.
Chris Upton: Poppy display not obligatory
Economic Development
Every year, around this time, I wrestle with a moral dilemma over the humble poppy.
Shady dealings
Retail & Consumer
'Resurrectionists' on the prowl for victims struck as much fear into society as serial killers, writes Chris Upton.
The Birmingham runner who was banned for coming second
Retail & Consumer
Chris Upton decribes how overzealous Victorian sporting authorities banned one of our finest runners 鈥 for coming second.
Chris Upton: Give Gibson a library card
Economic Development
When the Convention Centre was built 20 years ago, they introduced an imaginative 鈥減ercentage for art鈥 element into the scheme, setting aside 10 per cent of the cost for new works of art.
Chris Upton: Why honour our students with debt?
Economic Development
I鈥檝e always had my doubts about honorary degrees. Half-way through the degree convocation, with the next line of graduands chafing at the bit, everything stops for the wheeling out of some celebrity to collect a gratuitous doctorate.
The workhouses of Wolverhampton
Retail & Consumer
Chris Upton surveys the remnants of that once ubiquitous feature of the industrial landscape, the workhouse.
Sublime creation of St Chad's in Stafford
Retail & Consumer
Legend has it that Moorish captives left their mark on a glorious church in Stafford, writes Chris Upton.
Chris Upton: My journey is to run away
Economic Development
It has become the compulsory final scene in every TV documentary.
Black history in Britain began way before the 1940s
Retail & Consumer
Chris Upton explains why black history in Britain didn鈥檛 just begin with the arrival of The Windrush.
Chris Upton: Just get on a bus and glow
Economic Development
I鈥檝e been thinking about committing a few crimes on the No.
Northleach prison was a house of gain
Retail & Consumer
Chris Upton tells the story of a Gloucestershire prison which was the blueprint for penal reform across the country in the 1790s.
Chris Upton: Loud and proud about electric folk
Economic Development
One of the merits of advancing age is that you get to re-visit bits of your life when they come around a second time.
Chris Upton: It鈥檚 not all big money in the public sector
Economic Development
Unless I鈥檓 very much mistaken, open season has been officially declared on the public sector.
Friends in high places for Sir William Bagot
Retail & Consumer
Chris Upton tells the story Sir William Bagot, whose loyalty to a duke the night before a duel was ultimately repaid.