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West Midlands History Friends of the Centre for West Midlands History Newsletter Issue 1 August 2009 Sharing the Past with the Future elcome to the first issue of the region or relevant professional welcoming you at the first of our the newsletter for the expertise. The overall aim is to Friends events at Wolverhampton Art WFriends of the Centre for provide an active forum in which to Gallery on September 12th. West Midlands History. The Centre share experiences and historical aims to create a forum for the study of research to help raise the profile of In the next issue, we will introduce the history of the West Midlands, and local and regional history in the wider you to the Committee Members of the runs the MA in West Midlands community. Friends and provide further History, an annual conference and information about exclusive events operates a range of day schools. The The benefits of being a Friend include and activities for members. Centre has provided support for discounted attendance fees at the various historical projects and worked Centre's conferences, the opportunity In the meantime, please send your with heritage professionals and to attend exclusive social events and feedback on this issue and any news independent scholars in the wider visits to places of historical interest in items that you would like to be community. the region, and volunteering considered for future publication to opportunities. the Editor, Sally Hoban, at The purpose of the Friends is to build [email protected] or write links between the Centre and others We hope that you enjoy reading this to Dr Malcolm Dick at the University with a strong interest in the history of newsletter, and look forward to of Birmingham. Friends' event to Attendees will Day schools and need to make Wolverhampton Art their own way to the Gallery, events Gallery Saturday 12th which is located Friends of the Centre for West Midlands September 2009 just a few History will receive full information about minutes walk from Wolverhampton train and bus stations in Lichfield Street. There is an the programme of day schools and evening We are delighted to announce the first of our excellent café at the Gallery in which you can classes at the University in September. These exclusive free events for the Friends of the purchase refreshments during the visit. You can will include a number of events devoted to Centre for West Midlands History. find out more at the history and archaeology of the West www.wolverhamptonart.org.uk/wolves. Midlands. It will be a visit to Wolverhampton Art Gallery on Saturday, 12th September between 2pm and For further information and to reserve a place, There will be a series of eight evening 5pm, in which curator Olga Baird will give us please email [email protected] classes: 'Matthew Boulton (1728-1809): a talk and tour of the Museum's new Victorian or telephone 0121-427 8163. You will receive industry, science and the arts in Britain' on Galleries. further details about the visit when you book. Wednesday evenings between 21 October and 9 December 2009, 6.30pm - 8.30pm in the Arts Building, University of Birmingham. The normal price for these classes is £89. Free access to 1911 census Friends will be entitled to a discount of £5. Birmingham Archives and Heritage is one of seven archives and libraries around England that will be There will also be a reduction in the price of given free access to the recently completed online records of the 1911 census. attending the annual conference of the Centre for West Midlands History: 'War and Society The National Archives, in collaboration with UK-based family history website findmypast.com, is in the West Midlands' on Saturday 20 March providing free access to the census, available at 1911census.co.uk. A date for the free launch of the 2010. More details later. To register your service at Birmingham is not yet available, however the National Archives website suggests contacting interest for either of these events, contact participating institutions directly to find out the when the service will be available. Call 0121 303 4549 Malcolm Dick at [email protected]. or email [email protected]. Are you reading this but are not a member of the Friends? If you would like to join contact Dr Malcom Dick, Centre for West Midlands History, School of History and Cultures, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT or email [email protected] for further information. achievements (see Dr Sally Baggott's article in this newsletter ) and there are Boulton Boulton Conference 2009 Matthew Boulton exhibitions being held as far away as the Speed Museum in Kentucky, USA, and the By Dr Sally Baggott 1728 - 1809 - Powerhouse Museum in Sydney. The conference 'Where Genius and the Arts Preside: Matthew Boulton 1728-1809', was held at Bicentenary Year Fortunately you don't have to go so far to see the University of Birmingham and Birmingham the most extensive exhibition, 'Matthew By Sue Tungate City University from 3rd - 5th July 2009. It Boulton: Selling what all the world desires', attracted an audience of around 75 per day (86 If you have not already heard, 2009 is the which is at the Birmingham Museum and Art individuals over the weekend). Participants came bicentenary of the death of Matthew Boulton Gallery's Gas Hall until 27th September and from as far afield as Australia, the United States (1728-1809). So many of the advantages entrance is free. The exhibition shows the and Canada, and from Sweden, France, Russia society now enjoys are due to the brilliance invaluable contributions made by Boulton to and Italy. A wide range of specialists from and entrepreneurship of people such as our nation's heritage in his artistic, social and universities and non- academic institutions, plus Boulton. His vital role in developing steam scientific endeavours. The exclusive collection independent scholars and interested members of engineering with Watt, and the provision of an of pictures, artefacts, memoirs, letters and the public, gave a series of fascinating talks on a efficient coinage, gave an incredible boost to other objects produced by Boulton, includes variety of topics. the efficiency of industry and commerce at the material from Birmingham Museums and start of the industrial revolution. Matthew Archives but also significant loans from the University representatives taking part came from Boulton was also a great supporter of cultural Royal Collection, private collections, the Universities of Birmingham, Exeter, activities within Birmingham and a founding Birmingham Assay Office, and other national museums. Glamorgan, Oxford, Salford, and Birmingham member of the Lunar Society, a group of City University in Britain, and the University of eighteenth century enlightenment thinkers Another free exhibition is on until May 2010 at Turin, Italy, the College of William and Mary, which included luminaries such as Joseph Williamsburg, Virginia, EHESS, (École des Priestley, Erasmus Darwin and Josiah the Barber Institute of Fine Arts at the University of Birmingham. It features Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales) Paris, Wedgwood. Boulton's Soho Mint products and is entitled Uppsala University, Sweden, University of 'Matthew Boulton and the Art of Making California, Los Angeles, University of Georgia, Boulton started life as the son of a Money'. The exhibition focuses on the art of and University of New South Wales, Australia. Birmingham button maker and rose to become making money in all its aspects, as mechanical a great industrial pioneer. In the 18th century art, fine art and the art of making a profit. The Specialists included those from Birmingham his Soho Manufactory was well known all over coins, medals, tokens, dies and books on Museums and Archives services, Thinktank Europe, and the Soho Mint was where modern display show a wonderful variety of artistic Birmingham, Wolverhampton Museum and Art coining methods were first developed. Boulton designs. The exhibits have come from the Gallery, the British Museum, the Science also helped to establish Birmingham's canal collections at the British Museum and Museum, Linnaean Society, Coventry City system and its General Hospital, and the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, with the Council Conservation and Archaeology, the Birmingham Assay Office, now the busiest in majority coming from the Birmingham Assay Society for the History of Astronomy, the Royal the world. Office. Northern College of Music, and the Birmingham Assay Office as well as the Smithsonian In July 2009 a prestigious international For more information about the Boulton Institution, Washington DC and Powerhouse conference was held in Birmingham to bicentenary events see Museum, Sydney, Australia. celebrate Matthew Boulton's life and www.matthewboulton2009.org The talks on Boulton ranged over his long and varied activities from the establishment of his famous Soho Manufactory, his relationship with Selling what all the world desires - Free events at James Watt and his various employees, and his family life. His technological developments in Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (BMAG) metal processing, steam engines, and minting were covered with much discussion on the Free tours of the Boulton exhibition with a museum Guide take place on Fridays at 1pm. products of the Soho Mint. Also Boulton's design Please meet at the exhibition entrance to take part in a tour. Pre-booking is not required in silver, Sheffield plate and ormolu plus the but numbers may be limited. establishment of the Birmingham Assay Office Forthcoming talks: were detailed. Some very useful contributions were made about Boulton's overseas contacts such Saturday 22 August Saturday 12 September as his Jewish partners in Paris and Thomas 'Matthew Boulton and the Forgers' 'Mechanical Painting: Ingenious process of Jefferson and others.
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