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Robert Mynors, a pioneer of surgical treatment in 18th century Birmingham Robert Mynors was one of the… read more »

A NARRATIVE OF THE CASE OF A FRACTURED SKULL BY MR. WILLIAM JONES, SURGEON. J. BURTON, four… read more »

Image from: The Book of Trades or Library of the Useful Arts, 1806 Image donated by: Birmingham Central… read more »

The New Illustrated Directory Entitled Men and Things of Modern England, 1858

An Account of a Society for Encouraging the Industrious Poor was published in Birmingham in 1787. Its… read more »

Hotel, Birmingham, July, 1791. Commemoration of the French Revolution. A Number of Gentlemen intend DINING together on… read more »

Safe and Elegant TRAVELLING. Hotel and Swan Inn, Birmingham. Paytons’s Old Original well-known LONDON POST-COACH, in Sixteen Hours… read more »

BIRMINGHAM, JULY 18. BIRMINGHAM, July 16, 1791. Friends and Fellow Countrymen, IT is earnestly requested, that every… read more »

Birmingham, August 22 1791 WHEREAS it now appears, that amongst other insidious and unwarrantable Practices made use… read more »

DUDLEY CHEESE FAIR. WHEREAS great Complaints have arisen from exposing of Cheese to Sale, and weighing the… read more »

WANTED in a Gentleman’s Family, near Birmingham, immediately, or at Michaelmas next, a sober industrious Woman Servant;… read more »

To the Inhabitants of the Town of Birmingham. Friends and Fellow Townsmen, IT is with extreme concern… read more »

To the Rev. Dr. PRIESTLEY. Quid minus utile fuit quam ulcus hoc tangere? REV. SIR, TO deplore… read more »

By the KING. A PROCLAMATION. GEORGE R. WHEREAS it hath been represented unto Us, that a great… read more »

To the Printer of the Birmingham Gazette. SIR, I DO not now write to complain of my… read more »

WHEREAS it is well known that divers Persons still withhold Books, Paper and other Property belonging to… read more »

Newport, Aug. 13, 1790. Eloped from her Husband, WHEREAS Susannah, Wife of Wm, Hollingshead, of Newport, in… read more »

SONG, on obtaining the BIRMINGHAM and WORCESTER CANAL BILL. Come, now begin delving, the Bill is obtain’d,… read more »

On Saturday the Commission for holding the Assize for this county, was opened before Mr. Baron Hotham,… read more »

Introduction: Malcolm Dick Source: Local Studies and History, Birmingham Central Library, UK Directions for Married Persons was written by John… read more »

Image: The Wren’s Nest from The Black Country – Sixteen Etchings of Scenes in the Coal and Iron… read more »

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Advertisement, Men and Things of Modern England… The New Illustrated Directory… (Birmingham, M Billing, 1856)

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From: The Political Songster by John Freeth Local Studies and History, Central Library, Birmingham MENDOZA’s TRIP to… read more »

Robert Mynors, a pioneer of surgical treatment in 18th century Birmingham Robert Mynors was one of the… read more »

ON THE AMPUTATION OF THE THIGH AND THE AFTER-TREATMENT 1. Let the screw tourniquet, with a small… read more »

[70] Observations and Illustrations To Mr. MYNORS, Surgeon. DEAR SIR “I BEG the favor of you to… read more »

[79] OF THE AMPUTATION OF DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE EXTREMITIES It has been observed agreeable to the… read more »

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The New Illustrated Directory Entitled Men and Things of Modern England, 1858

Published in 1802, this Directory is one of the first written accounts of the pottery towns, Tunstall,… read more »