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The Research Project
The "Black Country": the heavy industrial areas of Staffordshire and Worcestershire - and today comprising the metropolitan
boroughs of Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton - was the hub of the industrial revolution. So called due to the area
being covered in grime from industries and the thousands of chimneys.
Living and working in such an environment severely impacted the underpaid and overworked workers: men, women and children.
Unsafe working conditions and practices; overcrowded, poor living conditions; lack of sanitation; insufficient food and little
clean drinking water.
The aim of this research project is to examine the history of diseases and illness in the Black Country, and their impact
upon the peoples of the towns and villages of the area, both personally and socially. Also the medical- and health-care provision
the people experience. Areas which have been overlooked.
Until now.
The results of the ongoing research - which is being conducted independently of any university or museum - can be found
in the form of books and articles listed below.
BOOKS
Disease and Illness in The Black Country. Volume 1: Medieval to Early Modern
The Diggum-Uppers: Body Snatching and Grave Robbing in the West Midlands
Quacks and Cures: Quack Doctors and Folk Healing of the Black Country
Nothing reigns here but Want and Disease, Death and Desolation! The Black Country During The 1832 Cholera Pandemic
Articles
The Tipton Slasher and the Grave Robbers: Fact or fiction? The dissection of a Black Country myth.
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