A Portrait of Dr. Erasmus Darwin, Erasmus Darwin: Doctor, Inventor, Poet and Educationalist Text: Malcolm Dick Image: Birmingham City Archives Erasmus ...

A Portrait of Dr. William Small, William Small: Teacher, Scientist and Mentor Text: Malcolm Dick William Small was born in Forfarshire, Scotland, in 1734, the s...

A Portrait of James Watt, James Watt: Inventor Text: Malcolm Dick Image: Birmingham City Archives James Watt was born in Greenock, Scotland in ...

A Portrait of Josiah Wedgwood, Josiah Wedgwood: Industrialist Text: Malcolm Dick Image: Birmingham City Archives Josiah Wedgwood was born in Burslem...

A Portrait of Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth: Inventor, Educator and Reformer Text: Malcolm Dick Image: Birmingham City Archives In 1744,...

A Portrait of Samuel Galton jnr, Samuel Galton Junior: Industrialist Text: Malcolm Dick Image: Brimimgham City Archives Samuel Galton junior was born ...

A Portrait of Thomas Day, Thomas Day: Humanitarian and Reformer Text: Malcom Dick Image Birmingham City Archives Thomas Day was born in 1748. H...

A Portrait of Thomas Jefferson, Image: Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826). The Hundred Greatest Men: Portraits of the One Hundred Greatest Men, (Sampson Low, London, 1880)...

An “ever-open door”: Erasmus Darwin and Lichfield, Image: Print of Erasmus Darwin as a young man Image from: Local Studies and History, Birmingham Central Library Text: Ol...

Aris's Birmingham Gazette - Advert for Revolutionary Dinner, Hotel, Birmingham, July, 1791. Commemoration of the French Revolution. A Number of Gentlemen intend DINING together on the 14th instant, to comme...

Birmingham: “The Toyshop of Europe”, Image: Matthew Boulton by C F Von Breda, 1792. Oil on Canvas. Boulton was the most famous of Birmingham’s toymakers. The portra...

Dr John Ash, M.D. , Image: Print of a portrait of Dr John Ash (1723-1798) from R K Dent, Old and New Birmingham: A History of the Town and its People (Bi...