Centre for History How to Enrol

Closing date for applications is 10 days before the day school. It may be possible to accept late bookings, but please telephone Dr Malcolm Dick on 0121 415 8253 to check availability of places beforehand.

Receipts and Confirmation

We do not issue receipts for the payment of fees. However, if you do require one please enclose a stamped addressed envelope with your enrolment form. Please assume that you have been accepted for the day school unless you hear to the contrary.

Data Protection

The names and addresses of people attending our programmes are held on a computerised mailing list which will be used to send you information. Please let us know if you:

 wish your name to be removed L19 (LZ 54), one of two Zeppelins which dropped bombs on the  change your name and/or address (please remember to Black Country on 31 January and 1 February 1916 quote your previous name/address)

Disclaimer Black Country History Day This leaflet is prepared well in advance to provide information before you apply, and therefore there may be alterations to Saturday 18th October 2014 courses or facilities. While every effort is made to avoid any changes, we reserve the right to withdraw or amend any part of Lecture Theatre 4, Ground Floor, Strathcona Building, this programme without prior notice. University of B15 2TT Centre for West Midlands History Day School Enrolment Form 2014/15 Black Country History Day Black Country History Day Saturday 18 October 2014, 10.00am – 4.00pm Saturday 18 October 2014, 10.00am – 4.00pm Venue: Lecture Theatre 4, Strathcona Building, Edgbaston Campus, No. of Places: …………. Fee: £20.00 Amount Payable: …………………...... University of Birmingham. Note the change in venue from previous years. It is immediately behind the Arts Building. Fee: £20 (refreshments and lunch provided)

Speakers: See Biographies ONLINE BOOKING VIA THE UNIVERSITY SHOP. See the College of Arts and Law link on: http://shop.bham.ac.uk/ The Black Country Society, together with the Centre for West Midlands History at the University of Birmingham, is organising this ninth day school which is designed for POSTAL BOOKING. Please complete the form in BLOCK CAPITALS anyone interested in the history of the area. The Black Country Society promotes interest in the past, present and future of the Black Country. Mr/Mrs/Miss/Ms/Dr 10.00am Introduction, Dr Malcolm Dick, University of Birmingham Surname: ………………………………….. Forename: ……….………………….. 10.10am Zeppelins Over the Black Country: the Midlands’ First Blitz, Paul Fantom Address: …………………………………………………………...………………… 11.10am Break 11.30am The Soho Foundry – the first purpose-built steam engine …………………………………………………………………………………………….. manufactory in the world, George Demidowicz FSA 12.30am Lunch ……………………………………………………….. Postcode: ………...... 1.20pm ‘A family of companies’: An introduction to Rubery Owen Engineers, , Joanne Krawec Tel (day): …………………………… Tel (evening): ………………………………. 2.20pm Break 2.40pm ‘The Archaeology of the William Shenstone’s landscape garden Email: ...... at The Leasowes’, John Hemingway 3.40pm Questions and discussion, led by Dr Malcolm Dick Please make cheques payable to “University of Birmingham” 4.00pm Finish

Signature: ……………………………………… Date : ………………………...... George Demidowicz is Honorary Research Fellow in History at the University of Birmingham and recently retired as head of the Conservation and Archaeology Team If paying by cheque, please return the completed enrolment form to: Dr Malcolm at City Council. His major industrial archaeological project is the study of the Dick, Black Country History Day, School of History and Cultures, The Soho Manufactory and Mint in Handsworth and the Soho Foundry in Smethwick. University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT John Hemingway became interested in William Shenstone in the 1980s. As Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council’s Archaeological Officer, he investigated the landscape of The Leasowes in Halesowen. He is now completing a PhD at the University of Email: [email protected]: Telephone: 0121 415 8253, Birmingham on Shenstone and the creation of his landscape garden. Please enclose a stamped addressed envelope if you require a map  or Paul Fantom was born and raised in , where he continues to live, and he receipt  is a Doctoral Researcher at the University of Birmingham. This talk is based on his PhD thesis which is entitled 'Community, Patriotism and the Working Class in the First World War: The Home Front in Wednesbury, c. 1914-1918'. Data Protection Act: The names and addresses of people attending our Joanne Krawec recently completed the MA in West Midlands History at the programmes are held on a computerised mailing list which will be used to send University of Birmingham and has started a PhD on the history of Rubery Owen: a information. Please let us know if you wish your name to be removed  or to company that became the largest, privately-owned engineering group in Great Britain change your name and/or address  (please remember to quote your previous during the sixties. name/address).