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Real Lives: remembering Jayaben Desai and Grunwick 40-

British readers currently enjoying their middle years will likely remember the summer of 1976 – 40 years ago. This was the hottest summer s...

Today, Mrs Louise Hunt, the Senior Coroner for Birmingham and Solihull , will decide whether the Inquests into the deaths of the 21 people...

The idea of an Order of nursing Sisters originated with Robert Bentley Todd, Professor at Kings College Medical School, London, in response...

Up until recently, we didn't hear much about Dr Victoria Mary Crosse, who was born on 17 May 1900 in Rye, where her father was the vicar...

Stoker 1st Class William Laker RN (C/KX.130176), aka my Great Uncle Bill, was born in 1911 in Penge, South East London to parents John, a ...

During my recent visit to the Bethnal Green Tube Disaster Memorial, my attention was drawn to a colourful wreath with a photo of a young...

(c) the Birmingham Post Inspired by the terrific colour slide photography of 1950s and 1960s Birmingham by the late Phyllis Nicklin, f...