A People’s History of Birmingham’s Cinemas
Birmingham’s cinemas have a history as rich as that of the city itself, as the places both of dreams and of communal enjoyment at the heart of its working-class communities.
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Josh Allen is a writer, contemporary historian, and occasional curator based in south Birmingham.
Birmingham’s cinemas have a history as rich as that of the city itself, as the places both of dreams and of communal enjoyment at the heart of its working-class communities.
Photographer Janine Wiedel’s 1979 series ‘Vulcan’s Forge’, now back in the West Midlands for the first time in decades, captured the region’s traditional workplaces on the eve of deindustrialisation.