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March 28, 2025

Wolves fans share memories and tributes to legendary striker Bully as he gets ready to celebrate 60

March 22, 2025

15 surprising things you'll only remember if you went to school in the 80s, including dinner time favourite

March 21, 2025

Things are looking up for a 21st century airship revival in Bridgnorth - but this new dawn has beckoned before

Features|Mar 21

March 19, 2025

Walsall’s history to be celebrated with new digital archive grant awarded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund

Your World|Mar 19

March 18, 2025

17 nostalgic pictures from 1970s Wolverhampton - including lost offices of Goodyear and Tarmac

March 12, 2025

27 historic Wolverhampton pictures from 1901 to1984, including The Beatles at the Gaumont

March 8, 2025

Auctioneer delighted to be able to put Roman coin discovered in Kingswinford field up for auction

International Women's Day 2025: Seven remarkable women who helped shape the West Midlands

Nostalgia|Mar 8

March 6, 2025

Dudley community unites to restore a 1963 E-type Jaguar

Your World|Mar 6

March 4, 2025

Canal charity launches project to preserve stories of canal restoration and invites public to share memories

Your World|Mar 4

How Black Country women smashed the glass ceiling

March 3, 2025

15 evocative pictures of Bilston from the past - see what Black Country landmarks you still recognise

A rare beauty, isn't she? Muscular, too, with enough horsepower to knock your socks off.

March 2, 2025

The Dudley Castle spaceships from 1975 that landed amid a poignant Cold War link between America and Russia

February 28, 2025

Historic Wolverhampton lock and safe factory to become 14 flats

Wolverhampton|Feb 28

February 25, 2025

What can you spot? 17 nostalgic pictures from the past of Penn in Wolverhampton

February 22, 2025

Memories of big bands and big nights come flooding back for legendary Wolverhampton club founders as blue plaque tribute is unveiled

Wolverhampton-born author explains what should happen to 'forgotten Scots' artefact 'Book of Deer'

Features|Feb 22

February 19, 2025

Life was a Laff for Suzi Perry's dad during the heady days of Wolverhampton's famous nightspot

Wolverhampton entertainment|Feb 19

Couple who spent 67 years bringing music to the people of Walsall

Features|Feb 19

February 16, 2025

'George Edalji - guilty or innocent?' - New research uncovers clues to unsolved mystery hanging over Cannock since 1888

Features|Feb 16

February 15, 2025

200-year-old Black Country town centre pub to be converted into flats

February 14, 2025

Here's what happened when Malcolm X visited Smethwick in 1965

February 13, 2025

Dudley;'s father of the Industrial revolution the subject of history talk

February 12, 2025

Bold plans for museum to remember Wolverhampton's 910 Battle of Tettenhall, when Vikings were driven out of Britain

February 10, 2025

21 nostalgic pictures of iconic Ironbridge Power Station - and its explosive end

February 6, 2025

13 nostalgic pictures that show why Wolverhampton misses its beloved speedway at Monmore Green

February 2, 2025

A look back at The New Art Gallery Walsall as it gears up for its 25th anniversary

How RAF Cosford nursed sick and battle-scarred prisoners back to health as they returned home

January 31, 2025

New local history book by Walsall Council honours late Queen Elizabeth II

January 30, 2025

11 retro toys commonly banned from schools in the 2000s

Education|Jan 30

Boogie Lights Express aims to banish winter blues at Severn Valley Railway

January 29, 2025

Warning that land slippage on the Severn Valley Railway will affect some services

January 27, 2025

Celebrations for Wolverhampton banqueting suite as building taken off national at-risk register

Piece of Second World War history uncovered in middle of Brierley Hill park

January 26, 2025

Dudley's father of the Industrial Revolution could have become a brewer

Dudley nostalgia|Jan 26

January 23, 2025

A £70 plane to beat the traffic? What could go wrong? - Toby Neal looks back on the fatally flawed 'people's plane'

Features|Jan 23

January 20, 2025

Holocaust survivor brings her experiences to life at Dudley commemorative event

January 11, 2025

Going underground - the wonders that lie beneath the West Midlands

Features|Jan 11

January 10, 2025

Wolverhampton's "white elephant" civic hall can trumpet decades of success

Features|Jan 10

January 3, 2025

History society hosts night of films and quizzes

January 2, 2025

Amazing life of aircraft engineer who worked on Concorde

Wolverhampton nostalgia|Jan 2

December 25, 2024

Remembering Bridgnorth veteran of Britain's 'forgotten invasion' who died last year

News|Dec 25, 2024

December 24, 2024

Eighty years ago, on December 24, 1944, Hitler sent a Christmas message to a Shropshire town.

Nostalgia|Dec 24, 2024

December 22, 2024

'Stan's the man' - Toby Neal looks back on Wolves glory days with a new manager in place

Nostalgia|Dec 22, 2024

December 20, 2024

Christmas is a time when families get together - but years of war made things tough with enforced separation.

Features|Dec 20, 2024

December 18, 2024

New collaboration brings touch of Black Country history to IKEA superstore

News|Dec 18, 2024

December 16, 2024

Alarm amongst supporters of Walsall Leather Museum as proposal for relocation heard by council cabinet

News|Dec 16, 2024

December 15, 2024

In the weeks before Christmas, refugees arrived - and Midlanders welcomed them

News|Dec 15, 2024

December 14, 2024

Cracked brake drum and sourcing new tyres and chains are the latest challenges for Sunbeam 1,000hp restorers

Your World|Dec 14, 2024