Before services were centralised to London, many regions looked after their own affairs – and thrived.
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More than 100 Black churches across the South were targeted from the 1950s-70s. Another wave of violence followed in the ‘90s – and there have been attacks in recent years, too.
Garbage continues to pile up on the streets of Birmingham. An expert in communicable disease explains the risks.
Birmingham may not be Paris, but it’s a great city for a big conference.
This Town echoes the ways in which music is forged by its social context, while shaping and defining the lives of the people who make it.
Birmingham’s spiralling budget deficits are the result of a decade of austerity and a disastrous implementation of a new Oracle IT system.
A new study of council financing in Germany, Italy and Japan offers some new ideas for how to solve English councils’ financial difficulties.
With all delays on this train line over the last decade, it may have been a costly distraction from other projects that could have contributed to levelling up in the meantime.
More than a decade of austerity in English local government has squeezed councils to their utter financial limits.
Hosting the Games has seem Birmingham dotted with new infrastructure and amenities. But the city’s pioneering transformation began over a 100 years ago.
Gravelly Hill Interchange was always meant to be functional, but its cultural life has been rich too.
If the UK government is serious about levelling up the country, granting its second-tier cities more political and financial independence would be a good place to start.
Despite no evidence of a plot emerging, the Trojan Horse affair had a real and detrimental impact.
When it comes to ring roads, Birmingham has a poor track record. Can the city’s new transport plan buck that trend and benefit both its inhabitants and the environment?
The restrictions that have hurt the live scene will remain for a little while longer, following Boris Johnson’s announcement
They were made by the same sculptor but sit in two very different places. Now one is set to be removed while the other goes unnoticed.
Just because your children are learning about LGBT relationships, it won’t make them gay.
Amanda Spielman claims extremists are targeting schools to ‘pervert’ education and ‘undermine’ British values.
There needs to be an urgent debate on the education of Muslim pupils in British schools, but this seems impossible in the current climate.
Where did it all go wrong for Aston Villa?
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Associate Professor, School of Criminology, University of Leicester
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Reader in Music, Politics and Society, Newcastle University
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Professor of Sociology, University of Nottingham
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Research Associate, Institute of Coding, Coventry University
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Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, University of Sheffield, University of Sheffield
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Senior Lecturer, School of Law and Politics, Cardiff University
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Senior Lecturer in Architecture, Birmingham City University
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Senior Lecturer in Law, Royal Holloway, University of London
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Professor and Ambassador for the Heseltine Institute for Public Policy, Practice and Place, University of Liverpool
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Associate Professor in Strategic Public Sector Finance and Urban Adaptation, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Lecturer in History, Aston University
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Professor in Law, University of Essex
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Associate professor, Aston University
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Honorary Professor of Local Government, University of Bristol
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Research Fellow, Birmingham City University