During the Victorian era, Birmingham was the epicentre of the world’s pen trade (it’s important to note that pens in those days were what we’d call nibs today). In the Jewellery Quarter, there were about...
The worst thing about Birmingham is that it has no beach. Sure, there are some incredible coastal towns and sandy shores not that far away, but they’re not exactly within walking distance or a hop on the...
This might be the closest you ever come to stepping inside a bank’s vaults without robbing one. Step inside the Birmingham Municipal Bank’s former safe deposit facility (containing more than 4,000 safe de...
Ozzy Osbourne sadly passed away at the age of 76 on July 22, 2025. One year on, Birmingham will officially celebrate the first ‘Ozzy Day’ with a city-wide, free programme of live music, public art, specia...
You’d think that everyone would be staying in England for their holidays, seeing as it's not only cheaper, but has better weather than heading abroad these days. But Birmingham Airport is still expecting...
English whisky. Just a few years ago, those two words would’ve raised a lot of eyebrows, but not so much anymore, thanks to the English Whisky Festival and dozens of distilleries it highlights each year—w...
You probably spotted the Jude Bellingham and Morgan Rogers mural outside the Classic Fryer chippy in Quinton recently. To the untrained eye, England’s superstars are tucking into a British staple of chips...
What is Birmingham without its South Asian community? A lot less interesting. That’s what. And to celebrate this city’s exciting melting pot of cultures, the so-called ‘biggest South Asian music festival...
Want to watch Europe’s best athletes race on Birmingham's streets? With exactly three weeks to go until the 2026 European Athletics Championships (August 10 to 16), organisers have revealed the city-centr...
Gone are the days when men just rolled out of bed and headed straight out. At the turn of the century, we discovered something called ‘looking after yourself’, and it’s only been growing in popularity eve...