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From Gas Street to the Ganges
- Exploring Birmingham's Historical Links with the Commonwealth
Engelsk Paperback
From Gas Street to the Ganges
- Exploring Birmingham's Historical Links with the Commonwealth
Engelsk Paperback

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If ever there was a regional UK city with the credentials to host the 2022 Commonwealth Games, Birmingham was always it. One in ten people in the city was born in an overseas Commonwealth country, and many more have family in member nations such as India, Jamaica and Pakistan. Many of these are descendants of the generation who arrived after the Second World War to find work in the city’s manufacturing boom years.

But, as Simon Wilcox discovers, the links go much further back than that. In fact, the connections started with the canal building zeal of Birmingham’s industrial pioneers in the eighteenth century who built a canal network that spanned out from the Gas Street Basin. It was this network that opened up a new world of trade for the city – a world which revolved around metal, chocolate and weekly shipments of Ceylon tea.

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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
0
ISBN-13:
9780750993340
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0750993340
Udg. Dato:
25 jun 2021
Længde:
15mm
Bredde:
155mm
Højde:
234mm
Forlag:
The History Press Ltd
Oplagsdato:
25 jun 2021
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