A Portrait of James Keir, James Keir: Chemist, Geologist, Industrialist and Inventor Text: Malcolm Dick Image: Birmingham City Archives James K...

James Keir and the Geology and Industry of the Black Country: Mineralogy of the South-west part of Staffordshire, 1798, Image: The Wren's Nest from The Black Country - Sixteen Etchings of Scenes in the Coal and Iron District of South Staffordshire by Richard S...

James Keir with his granddaughter, Image: Portrait of James Keir and his granddaughter. Image from: Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery

Letter from James Keir to James Watt, 1802/04/24, Keir writes to Watt concerning the death of their friend and fellow Lunar Society member, Dr. Erasmus Darwin. ----------------------------------...

Letter from James Keir to the Printer of Aris's Birmingham Gazette, West Bromwich, 20 July 1791, page 1, Image from: Joseph Priestley Collection by Samuel Timmins, Birmingham City Archives.

Letter from James Keir to the Printer of The Birmingham and Stafford Chronicle, 20 July 1791, Image from: Joseph Priestley Collection by Samuel Timmins, Birmingham City Archives.

Letter from James Keir to the Printer of the Birmingham and Stafford Chronicle, West Bromwich, 20 July 1791, Image from: Joseph Priestley Collection by Samuel Timmins, Birmingham City Archives.

Matthew Boulton’s Soho Works, Iron Foundry and House at Soho near Birmingham, 1801, Text: Malcolm Dick Stebbing Shaw’s The History and Antiquities of Staffordshire (1798 and 1801) is a major source not only f...

The other side of the Coin: Women and the Lunar Men, Image: Joseph Wright of Derby (1734-1797), An Experiment on a Bird in an Air Pump (Exhibited 1768). Oil on Canvas. This painting is o...