FEATURE
New book on
Bromsgrove´s history By Jo Slade, The Bromsgrove Society Chairman
The Bromsgrove Society are thrilled to announce the launch of their latest publication ‘Bromsgrove: The Story of a Market Town’, which rolled off the printing presses in April 2022. Written by well-known local historians and Bromsgrove Society
This major new work will appeal to all those who know and love
members, Jenny Townshend and Julian Hunt, the book chronicles
the town, providing an evocative trip down memory lane. Running
the history of Bromsgrove over the last one thousand years. Based
to 320 pages, the hard backed book is lavishly illustrated with
on extensive original research, the authors present an exhaustive
drawings, maps and photographs, many of which have not been
account of the town’s development, from a medieval settlement
published before. Its scholarly and detailed treatment will appeal
to a prosperous market town and industrial centre whose influence
to local and family historians, as well as students of economic and
extended across the whole of North Worcestershire.
social history.
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ARTEFACTS
SUMMER 2022 • Issue 69
