Keith Bracey's take on #Birmingham and The Black C

The Art of Bell Ringing: The Bells of Brierley Hill

Yesterday Saturday 19th April 2025, a week after Benjamin Zephaniah Day at Brunel University in London, Birmingham Tree 🌳 People celebrated the legacy of Benjamin with 65 #Birmingham poets having written 65 poems for each year of Benjamin’s life linked to the Internet by Tree 🌳 Plotter software and also having laminated printed poems attached to the trees 🌳 with stainless steel cable ties. Each…

50 ‘FASCINATING FACTS’ ABOUT BIRMINGHAM 1. CITY OF 1,000 TRADES Birmingham has always been a hive of activity and was at the heart of the Industrial Revolution, which was set in motion by the Lunar Society of Birmingham, a group of the greatest scientists, inventors and manufacturers of the time who met to exchange ideas […]BIRMINGHAM – 50 FASCINATING FACTS ABOUT MY HOME CITY

The Mini, an icon of the swinging Sixties, was manufactured at Birmingham’s Longbridge plant from 1959 to 2000. In 1999 the Mini was voted the most influential car of the 20th century, and in 2014 it was named Britain’s favourite car of all time in a survey by motoring magazine Autocar. By the late 1960s, […]BIRMINGHAM’S MINI – THE CAR OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

via The engineering genius of Frederick Lanchester in homage to Coventry winning UK City of Culture 2021

The Lunar Society men were very sexist and excluded women from their proceedings as the Lunarticks felt women were frivolous and only fit to cook, clean and bear their children, the geniuses of the future…..this is the story of one woman who wouldn’t take no for an answer

The so called: “Age of Enlightenment” wasn’t so enlightened when it came to women and girls as shown by the fact that @LunarSoc excluded women from their activities and proceedings…..this newly commissioned play performed at @Sohohousemuseum in Handsworth in Birmingham tells the tale of one curious woman who wouldn’t take no for an answer……Keith Bracey, Birmingham Poet, Historian, Writer and…

@LadywoodNorm #NormanBartlam the #Birmingham historian and broadcaster with @TNT news @keithbracey

This book is a great exposition on growing up in #Birmingham in poverty and as an Aston Villa Football Club fan

I think Sir Michael Balcon should have been included in the Birmingham Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony pageant as the former head of the Ealing Studios, and a BRUMMIE! Ealing studios was THE best British film company which made such iconic films as Kind Hearts and Coronets, The Lavender Hill Mob, Passport to Pimlico, The Ladykillers, Whiskey Galore! & wartime propaganda film which was quite…

Birmingham Games Baton Relay Poem entitled: “Commonwealth People” with apologies to the Great Jarvis Cocker & his 1990 hit: “Common People” “Commonwealth People” Commonwealth people come to Brum To celebrate 🍾 youth with sport and fun Brummies, Villains, Bluenoses too…. Baggies and Saddlers Yam, Yams through Are all united in their common crew Wolves, Moors, […]“Commonwealth People ” a poem for…