West Midlands nostalgia and history articles from the Express & Star | Express & Star

Close

Nostalgia Archive

January 31, 2022

Flashback to 2005: Church's bid to restore historic wall paintings

Nostalgia|Jan 31, 2022

January 29, 2022

A ‘Notable’ book of legendary local folk

Features|Jan 29, 2022

January 28, 2022

How people of Wolverhampton left big impression on grieving Queen Victoria

Wolverhampton nostalgia|Jan 28, 2022

Triumph and tragedy in the hush-hush 'Hole'

Features|Jan 28, 2022

January 27, 2022

Second World War veteran donates Anne Frank book to library to ensure stories are not forgotten

Pelsall|Jan 27, 2022

Anne Frank's best friend recalls final chats together at Nazi concentration camp

Features|Jan 27, 2022

January 26, 2022

Why did Ulsterman Billy play in a Wolves team?

Wolverhampton|Jan 26, 2022

January 24, 2022

New book comes with free lump of Ironbridge Power Station

Nostalgia|Jan 24, 2022

Village's day of horror as mighty bomber came down

Features|Jan 24, 2022

Flashback to 1981: Apprentices get stuck into work at Josiah Parkes in Willenhall

Nostalgia|Jan 24, 2022

January 19, 2022

The highs and lows of Cosford Air show over the decades as event makes welcome return

Nostalgia|Jan 19, 2022

January 17, 2022

The Dudley cobbler whose Hollywood film was so scary one scene was cut for 49 years

Features|Jan 17, 2022

January 10, 2022

How pioneering gardener Percy Thrower helped shape Shrewsbury

Features|Jan 10, 2022

January 4, 2022

Dudley artist recreates once-famous Black Country glow in eye-catching paintings

Dudley|Jan 4, 2022

The story of the plucky little pigeon who survived 'the storm of the century'

Nostalgia|Jan 4, 2022

December 31, 2021

Letters: Remembering wartime Christmas in 1944 Wolverhampton

Readers' letters|Dec 31, 2021

Why we sing Auld Lang Syne at New Year - and other centuries-old traditions

Nostalgia|Dec 31, 2021

December 28, 2021

How "King" Ken battled for disputed island crown

Nostalgia|Dec 28, 2021

December 27, 2021

Site of famous Black Country business Bean Cars set to be turned into flats

Dudley|Dec 27, 2021

The family firm that ferried armies of anglers to the shores of the Severn

Features|Dec 27, 2021

December 26, 2021

Underground miracle which foiled Hitler's bombers

Staffordshire nostalgia|Dec 26, 2021

December 25, 2021

How local soldiers played their part in the famous 1914 Christmas Day truce

Staffordshire nostalgia|Dec 25, 2021

Tales of Christmas past from 100 years of our newspaper archives

Nostalgia|Dec 25, 2021

December 20, 2021

Great Lives - Button Gwinnett, roguish ironmonger who became a founding father of the US

Features|Dec 20, 2021

December 7, 2021

Pearl Harbour: Day of infamy which changed history

Nostalgia|Dec 7, 2021

December 6, 2021

From the world's oldest condoms to a nine-day Queen - fascinating Dudley facts

Dudley|Dec 6, 2021

How brothers secured their place in history with a word-leading invention

Business|Dec 6, 2021

November 27, 2021

The Great War soldiers who returned from the dead

Nostalgia|Nov 27, 2021

November 25, 2021

Staffordshire town's rich history set to come to life through new trail

Staffordshire nostalgia|Nov 25, 2021

November 22, 2021

The tragic Niagara Falls death of the first person to swim the English Channel

Features|Nov 22, 2021

November 20, 2021

Sathnam Sanghera: Problems in Britain due to a reluctance to talk about the Empire

Entertainment|Nov 20, 2021

November 15, 2021

Giftwrap evokes wartime night of terror

Features|Nov 15, 2021

November 13, 2021

Mark Andrews: The year a 'jelly mould' stole the show

Weekend|Nov 13, 2021

November 11, 2021

Rare medal collection from WW1 pilot who downed German flying ace set to for auction

Lichfield|Nov 11, 2021

How a revered WW2 captain who saved his crew ended up facing court martial

Features|Nov 11, 2021

November 9, 2021

Quiz: How much do you know about the Black Country?

Features|Nov 9, 2021

November 8, 2021

Robert Maxwell: 30 years since the mysterious death of an audacious tycoon

Features|Nov 8, 2021

November 6, 2021

Photo exhibition takes people back to their Black Country youth

Features|Nov 6, 2021

November 5, 2021

Remembering 'lovely Lilleshall' the inter-war pleasure resort

Features|Nov 5, 2021

November 1, 2021

Great Lives - The Gunpowder Plotters

Features|Nov 1, 2021

October 30, 2021

Exhibition takes people back to their youth

Dudley nostalgia|Oct 30, 2021

October 29, 2021

Moth mystery to test aviation experts

Features|Oct 29, 2021

October 25, 2021

Clive of India: From humble start to divisive British Empire pioneer and unclear death

Features|Oct 25, 2021

October 23, 2021

The prop gun tragedy that claimed the life of a 13-year-old boy

Features|Oct 23, 2021

October 18, 2021

Dora's one true love was tending to the sick

Features|Oct 18, 2021

Historian reflects on how city has changed

Features|Oct 18, 2021

October 14, 2021

Spectacular renaissance in the region's waterways

Features|Oct 14, 2021

October 11, 2021

The Claverley teacher who dedicated herself to cleaning TV of 'utter filth'

Features|Oct 11, 2021

October 6, 2021

DNA test could solve the mystery that haunted civil-war fighter to his grave

Walsall nostalgia|Oct 6, 2021

October 4, 2021

How a humble Black Country schoolgirl became Hollywood's highest-paid actress

Sandwell nostalgia|Oct 4, 2021

PreviousPage NextPage