Yesterday’s scenes from Birmingham, where a mobile bin collection was called off after it was swarmed by residents desperate ...

The iron-making centres produced iron rather than things made of iron; the metallurgical crafts which were so important to the prosperity of Sheffield and Birmingham struck few roots in Wales.

The area was historically Birmingham’s key manufacturing hub since the Middle Ages, and played a key role in the city’s industrial revolution in the 18th and 19th centuries. More recently it has ...

This process of Birmingham transforming itself has been going on since the Industrial Revolution – every couple of decades the city seems to remake itself – and this is a phenomenon I’ve ...