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Chris Upton

Chris Upton: Singing from the same hymn and err sheet
Economic Development
The Nature Centre at Cannon Hill Park used to be a zoo.
Chris Upton: The pure hell of mucking about with historic leather
Economic Development
Recycling is a complicated business, and some (most) of our neighbours have not got to grips with it.
Chris Upton: Not the best time to pop out for a couple of pintsI
Economic Development
It鈥檚 12.30 am and I鈥檓 at the all-night garage, queuing for milk.
Chris Upton: Keeping your head when all around are losing theirs
Economic Development
Come over here, Bill. The King of England's climbing out of the window !" I have to take you back three centuries and more to put this remark in context.
Chris Upton: Stratford House and 400 years of miracles
Economic Development
Stratford House sits almost on the middle ring road, between blocks of social housing and furniture superstores, as if it nodded off sometime in the late 16th Century and woke up in 2008.
Chris Upton: Erupting into a bout of deja vu - and common sense
Economic Development
The sobering side of being a historian is that rarely does one come across anything new under the sun.
Chris Upton: Italian? Sorry mate - it's all Greek to me
Economic Development
We have always found it more difficult at Newman to persuade English students to spend a term abroad than to attract the Europeans (or the Japanese, for that matter) in the opposite direction.
Chris Upton: Fascinating fascinators of an old fashioned order
Economic Development
I can say with some confidence that last week was a very good week for fascinators.
Chris Upton: Why memory lane is an essential throughfare
Economic Development
Last week I took a group of secondary teachers on a kind of history/geography walk around central Birmingham.
Chris Upton: Many stories behind the Rotunda's many storeys
Economic Development
I want to give a plug to a movie. The only problem (two problems, actually) is (or are) that you may not get to see the film.
Chris Upton: A long and proud history of media underkill
Economic Development
Call me paranoid, but it's my distinct impression that the Midlands never gets a fair crack of the media whip.
Chris Upton: All at once I came upon bluebells
Economic Development
The connection with the Romantic poets is slight. I was driving and not wandering; nor was I lonely since my mother was in the passenger seat.
Sunday newspaper ritual hits the bin
Economic Development
When friends from Wolverhampton used to come over to visit me at university (most of them having chosen the "earnings today" route to personal advancement, rather than a degree in Classics with its prospect of no earnings at any point), they used to tease me about what they called my "paper round".
A very early visitor to Birmingham
Economic Development
Let me introduce you to John Grace. Grace was a freelance preacher in the Middle Ages, and by all accounts he was pretty good at it.
Downsizing in the quest for perfection
Economic Development
Atale from Norse mythology, translated from the Elder Edda (or possibly made up) by Dr Chris Upton...
Using Virgil to predict an apocalypse
Economic Development
Bella, horrida bella, Et Thybrim multo spumantem sanguine cerno.
Comforting sound of the Ripon wakeman
Economic Development
I have always felt the appeal of places which seem to have fallen asleep centuries ago and then woken up, confused and alarmed, in the 21st Century.
A dangerous accident waiting to happen
Economic Development
On a regular basis on my way up New Street I get asked whether I have had an accident recently.
Alarming signs that the end of the market town is nigh
Economic Development
Way back in the 12th century landowners across the nation vied with each other to create new towns.
A more welcome and friendly face to Paris
Economic Development
My mission in life, following the lead of Heraclitus, is never to step in the same place twice.
Falling vowel of Russian pronunciation
Economic Development
Politicians and media commentators across the world have been dreading the moment.
A spartan life at Yardley workhouse
Economic Development
Close to the old police station on the Coventry Road (now a pub called The Old Bill and Bull) there once stood a workhouse.
A psalm to get you out of jail
Economic Development
The Archbishop of Canterbury has admitted to a degree of what he called "unclarity" in his remarks on the possibility of parallel legal systems, and it was this unclarity that led to the roof of public opinion falling in on him.
The age-old problem of the 'kids of today'
Economic Development
Ah, the youth of today, we lament. No manners, no discipline, no GCSEs, not enough parents.