"The west midlands region ... embraces the counties of Herefordshire, Staffordshire, Shropshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, and the former West Midlands Coun

The general perception of the west midlands region in the Roman period is that it was a backwater compared to the militarized frontier zone of the north, or the

The West Midlands has struggled archaeologically to project a distinct regional identity, having largely been defined by reference to other areas with a stronge

This volume provides a comprehensive analysis of the ground-breaking historic industrial complex created to the west of Birmingham in the eighteenth century and