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Article: M2: Nostalgia: Forgings triggered a population boom.(Features)
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- Birmingham Evening Mail (England)
- Article date:
- August 24, 2002
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Byline: CARL CHINN
WILLIAM Hutton, Birmingham's first historian, got it bang on when he wrote: 'the ancient and modern state of Birmingham must divide at the reign of Charles the Second.
'For though she had before held a considerable degree of eminence; yet at that period, the curious arts began to take root, and were cultivated by the hand of genius.'
Following the English Civil War and the restoration of the monarchy in 1660, Birmingham did indeed begin to transform itself from an important town regionally into a place thrusting itself onto the ...