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  • MORE THAN MUNICH
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    MORE THAN MUNICH
    ANDREW REEKES
    In 1938 rapturous crowds greeted Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain when he proclaimed “Peace for our time” on his return from meeting Adolf Hitler in Munich. Yet today Chamberlain is vilified as a naïve appeaser – an image cynically cultivated by Winston Churchill for his own political gain. What is the truth? How should Birmingham’s only Prime Minister be accurately remembere...

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  • THE BIRMINGHAM POLITICAL MACHINE
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    THE BIRMINGHAM POLITICAL MACHINE
    ANDREW REEKES
    The British electorate swelled dramatically with the passing of the Second Reform Act in 1867. This presented the political class with a significant challenge. Here was a large, new electorate which needed to be understood, managed, enthused, and persuaded to vote for the right candidate in local and parliamentary elections. From this time onwards education and democratic invol...

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  • WORDS AND DEEDS
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    WORDS AND DEEDS
    NICOLA GAULD
    In September 1909 Prime Minister Herbert Asquith came under attack during an event at Birmingham’s Bingley Hall. Members of the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) - or ‘suffragettes’ as the papers had named them - prevented from attending the meeting by a heavy police presence, threw roof slates at Asquith’s car to register their frustration. Ten women were arrested and ...

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  • TWO TITANS, ONE CITY
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    TWO TITANS, ONE CITY
    ANDREW REEKES
    Two famous and powerful men of the late Victorian and early Edwardian era, Joseph Chamberlain (1836-1914) and George Cadbury (1839-1922), towered over one of the great cities of the British Empire - Birmingham. Together, they offer a fascinating window into the rapidly changing world in which they lived and the preoccupations of their generation. Throughout their lives both men...

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  • WARRIORS, WARLORDS AND SAINTS
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    WARRIORS, WARLORDS AND SAINTS
    JOHN HUNT
    Anglo-Saxon Mercia was a great power in its day, although many aspects of it have been shrouded in myth and mystery. However, recent discoveries, such as the Staffordshire Hoard and the Lichfield Angel, have shone a fascinating light into the world of Mercia and the Mercians. In Warriors, Warlords and Saints: The Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Mercia, author John Hunt uses this evidenc...

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  • SPEECHES THAT CHANGED BRITAIN
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    SPEECHES THAT CHANGED BRITAIN
    ANDREW REEKES
    A fascinating and richly illustrated book exploring speeches made in Birmingham that changed history. Meet some of Britain’s most famous orators. The book reflects the importance of oratory in making a political argument. It may in a sound-bite era be a dying art but these speeches fulfil the first requirement of successful rhetoric, that it be a reasoned argument to pers...

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