Article: Window of opportunity for medical science; Historian Dr Chris Upton reflects on one of the most vital medical discoveries WITH THE BENEFIT OF HINDSIGHT.

Article: Archive: When black history changed; Chris Upton ...
The Birmingham Post (England);  October 25, 2003 ;     700+ words ...Byline: Chris Upton It could be a typical 18thcentury rural scene. A small school in the village of Burntwood in Staffordshire, where a handful of boys gather to learn the rudiments of grammar from their schoolmaster. The year is 1797 and the man in question is in his late 50s, and not in the best

Article: ARCHIVE : Metal industry that melted away; Chris Upton ...
The Birmingham Post (England);  April 30, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Byline: Chris Upton Metal-working is something we normally associate with the industrial hot houses of Birmingham and the Black Country. But it was not always thus. The little town of Bewdley in Worcestershire, for example, had a lot going for it as a place of industry, not least in that it was

Article: Midlands Millenium: Birmingham railway is a ride on time; Chris ...
The Birmingham Post (England);  May 22, 1999 ;     700+ words ...For anyone who has caught a train from New Street to Euston and found themselves stuck outside Rugby it may come as some consolation to know that this tradition goes back 162 years. The only difference between the experience of the modern commuter and the early Victorian was that in 1837 the train

Article: 'Great Terror' passes with the death of a ruthless dictator; ...
The Birmingham Post (England);  April 24, 1999 ;     700+ words ...On March 5, 1953, the greatest mass murderer of a century crammed with claimants succumbed to the after-effects of a stroke he had suffered a few days earlier. His last gesture was an accusatory finger jabbed at the array of politicians and family assembled around his bedside. Joseph Stalin died as

Article: ARCHIVE SPECIAL: Going back to Back to Backs a lifestyle of a ...
The Birmingham Post (England);  April 16, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Byline: Chris Upton For close on 200 years the Birmingham Back to Backs have stood still, while history has ebbed and flowed around them. They have been home to perhaps 3,000 people, until in the 1960s legislation meant that they could be called home no longer and after that only the shopkeepers

Article: Sir Alexander Fleming
Encyclopedia of World Biography;      700+ words ...Sir Alexander Fleming The Scottish bacteriologist Sir Alexander Fleming (1881-1955) is best known for his discovery ... contribution medical science ever made to humanity." Alexander Fleming was born on Aug. 6, 1881, at Lochfield ...

Article: Strange how Alexander Fleming House has ceased to ...
The Independent - London;  May 16, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... and Castle in south London, where Alexander Fleming House, the former headquarters of ... offered by the social services. Alexander Fleming House was designed by the late Erno ... even galling, about the way that Alexander Fleming House has been plucked from the public ...