KEY RESOURCES

ARCHIVES

Library of Birmingham Centenary Square, Broad Street, Birmingham B1 2ND

libraryofbirmingham.com This state- of-the-art library also houses the archives for the city. Check online for opening times. SOCIETY

Birmingham and Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry The Birmingham and Midland Institute, Margaret Street B3 3BS

bmsgh.org As well as an invaluable website full of useful information, this family history society has an important research library based at the Birmingham and Midland Institute in Margaret Street. WEBSITES Ancestry ancestry.co.uk This subscription site has digitised many records held by the Library of Birmingham. The British Newspaper Archive britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk This subscription site has digitised many of the Birmingham newspapers for the 19th and part of the 20th centuries. Midlands Historical Data midlandshistoricaldata.org A large number of directories, local history books and electoral roles can be accessed from this local subscription site. BOOKS

Trace your Birmingham Ancestors: A Guide for Family and Local Historians by Michael Sharpe, ( Pen & Sword, 2015). A useful resource for anyone researching their Birmingham family.

Birmingham: The Workshop of the World by Carl Chinn and Malcolm Dick (ed), ( Liverpool University Press, 2016). The first major history of Birmingham since the 1970s. MUSEUM

Birmingham Back to Backs 50-54 Inge Street, Birmingham B5 4TE

nationaltrust.org.uk/ birmingham-backto-backs Visit the restored Victorian houses featured in Emma Willis’s episode.