3, 000 images from the Express & Star photo archive are now freely available online. This a great resource for those interested in daily life in the West Midlands during the 20th century. The initial digitisation concentrates on images of industry and covers the 1970s to 1990s.
The resource is the outcome of an Heritage Lottery Fund project run jointly by
Midland News Association Ltd, Wolverhampton City Archives, and the University of Wolverhampton. Based in Wolverhampton, the Express & Star newspaper has been covering the region since the 1880s. The paper’s photographic collection has c.
1 million images making it a major source for social history in the West Midlands.
CILIP Local Studies Group 