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🗣️ Enjoy a summer evening of STORIE this June with new prose work from Josh Allen Ashley Hickson-Lovence So Mayer & Jackson Rees

🎟️ Tickets free to reserve from the link in our bio

A walk in the woods - masses of wild garlic border a winding footpath near Coalport Bridge in the Severn Gorge. This is Sutton Wood, a 70-acre site that I have only just discovered after driving past on many occasions with no idea what was just metres from the road.  #Shropshire

One week to go! 📽️

Flatpack hits the streets and screens of Birmingham in just one week.

Struggling to choose from so many superb festival events? Take our What Should I Watch? quiz to find your perfect event match:

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JOSH ALLEN is a writer, journalist & contemporary historian based in Birmingham. He produces the Walk Midlands website & newsletter, publishing a new day walk each week somewhere in the Midlands region doable without a car.

I'm super excited to do a first reading from a chunk of the book project Storie next month on 20th June

Come along - it's always a brilliant evening, in great company, at an ideal venue in Kilder and I am pleased to be part of an excellent line-up

Discover the history of one of the most diverse and vibrant areas of the city on one of our walking tours

Book your places on Migration Stories Of The Stratford Rd, first tour Sat 8 June
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▶️ video by Irina Mackie

#MagicOfWalking #birminghamwalkingtour

It’s looking beautifully summery down by the boat dock for the start of May today, complete with a little patch of bluebells ☀️

💜 Have you seen the bluebells of Charnwood Forest yet?

🐜 Did you know, ants help to spread the seeds of bluebells!

A beautiful evening on Lyth Hill, looking across a patchwork of fields towards the Stretton Hills. On the horizon are, from left, the Lawley, Willstone Hill, Caer Caradoc and Hazler Hill. Don’t be fooled by the sunshine, though - there was a definite chill on the air!  #Shropshire

Manchester Rambler sung at Kinder Trespass 92nd Anniversary by Brian Peters.

Now heritage, the Kinder Trespass was a serious act of disobedience.

How would today's media act if 400 w/c Young Communists, many with E. European & Jewish surnames, trespass on a landowners estate?

Anti-National Front protest in West Bromwich, 28th April 1979. Photo: Virginia Turbett.

This👇 is a great little book

Brilliant how Berger's Open Uni documentary essay on Zola's Germinal is rendered through stills from the recording on the page

April 2024's issue of the Walk Midlands Newsletter was sent on Friday.

This issue focuses on the Midland's historic inland ports, ft. walks to 4 of them, alongside the usual event listings and reflections on Walk Midlands first 2 years

Check it out👇

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The bluebells of Clent Hills 🤩🤩🤩

📷 Verity Milligan

I’m off to find Nature in the heart of Birmingham as my contribution to Birmingham & Black Country Wildlife Trust team entry for the #CityNatureChallenge

Come on EVERYONE!
Let’s show the world how wild we are in Birmingham & The Black Country!

Please SHARE 😎

Easy to get involved: bbcwildlife.org.uk/CityNatureChal…

Go inside the GoldenLionBrum, Cannon Hill Park, with these amazing images. And find out how you can help save this historic spot here ⬇
ichoosebirmingham.com/golden-lion-pub

Walk Midlands launched at the end of March 2022.

Two years and more than 100 walks later, here are the 10 most popular walks on the site to date:

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