Brum Manufactures

Our Open Day is back! Experience the rare opportunity to explore the MCC on a weekend! Sunday 16th September 2018 - SAVE THE DATE!! #ExploreTheStore

LISTEN to ⁦@Stanford⁩ #historian discuss how her book “Empire of #Guns” reveals how #armstrade drove #IndustrialRevolution in Britain. historywm.com/podcasts/birmi… #Birmingham #twitterstorians #18thcentury #History #podcast #BlackCountry #book

@BM_AG Is that a glassworks on the middle right?

Birmingham but not as you know it! View from Bradford Street, 1816. This engraving shows a heavily industrialised area with St Martin’s church in the middle ground and Christ Church, near what is now Victoria Square, in the far distance. You can see the toll gate in the street.

Road discovered under Victoria Square dated to the mid-18th century. birminghamupdates.com/road-discovere… (Image: @timcornbill)

Collection-based workshop - Birmingham's Gun Trade: The Global Context @BMTMCC 13 June.Through this workshop we will consider Birmingham’s gun trade during the 18th and 19th century in both a local and global context. Booking essential. eventbrite.co.uk/e/birminghams-… @Eventbrite

@BCLMCurators @BMT_Photo @BMAGcurators Out tilt hammer started its life in the Black Country in the 18th century, before being moved to A.&F. Parkes in Aston in the 19th century and having another 100 year life making tools.

@BCLMCurators @BMT_Photo @BMAGcurators I fear that might be a big job. We certainly have some, but I couldn't give you a complete list.

History🇬🇧1930s: a time when the dinosaur roamed!...............”egbert” the dinosaur, The Pageant of Birmingham, 1938.

@Circa1350BC @sciencemuseum We have some old biscuit moulds, but the earliest actual biscuit I can find is from WW1 (with scribbled message and date). You win this time Science Museum

It's #NationalBiscuitDay and I'm on a mission: what museum has the oldest biscuit? My entry, on behalf of @sciencemuseum is this ship's biscuit from an expedition to the Arctic in 1875. Museum Twitter Peeps, can you find an older biscuit?? collection.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects/co1548…

Join @artsatbham for The Centre for Modern and Contemporary History's Annual Lecture on 13 June. From 17:00, we welcome Professor Satia as she explores Galtons of Birmingham, the biggest gun-making firm in 18th century Britain owned by a Quaker family birmingham.ac.uk/schools/histor…

'Cast your mind back to a time when big hair was all the rage and there was this crazy new thing called the World Wide Web.' This was the age of beige... Assistant Curator @shazhussain93 discovers why early PCs were all so beige. Read more on our blog bit.ly/2rQBWEn

The head of Birmingham's Great Auk was X-rayed to check it was genuine. This revealed the amazingly complex internal structure #TheLostAuk #IMD2018

@bec_bridgman @natcphd @TheAssayOffice @TwoTowersAle @JQMatt @MJQBirmingham @BMAGcurators @BM_AG @HistoryWM @JQresearchtrust @JQBirmingham @MyJQ @GunmakersBrum @GunQuarter @BrumHour @TheIronRoom @SohoHouseMuseum @Sallyhoban @Academy1773 We agree. The city has not really taken account of the footprint of empire through all of the trades. Its going to have to be central to the work we do now (on the gun trade collections especially), because Birmingham does deserve a place that reflects every side of its history

@bec_bridgman @natcphd @TheAssayOffice @TwoTowersAle @JQMatt @MJQBirmingham @BMAGcurators @BM_AG @HistoryWM @JQresearchtrust @JQBirmingham @MyJQ @GunmakersBrum @GunQuarter @BrumHour @TheIronRoom @SohoHouseMuseum @Sallyhoban @Academy1773 Hi! We are talking to UoB and Priya about organising a workshop on the gun trade, to try and untangle the role of gun making in global histories of empire and industry. We are also asking Birmingham gun historians if they can confront the implications of this in their own work

The joy of massive photographic prints - part two, it barely fits in through the door to my studio @grandunionltd

NEW blog post! Read about how Birmingham Manufactures Project were able to photograph some of the very big and heavy machines in our Museum Collection Centre! birminghammuseums.org.uk/blog/posts/bir…

Getting ready for #OpenAfternoonTour @BMTMCC later. Can't wait, visitors have a lot to see, so many objects with great stories to tell. @BM_AG @BrumMfr @visit_bham

'I was yellow, all over' Hear first-hand accounts from female munitions workers about some of the dangers and difficulties they faced: ow.ly/3DYR30jD6Ef #womenMW

NEW blog post! Get to know more about some of the items in our collection made by Alfred Birds & Sons at their Digbeth factory! birminghammuseums.org.uk/blog/posts/bir…