Book Reviews

Tamworth Heritage Magazine reviews a heritage or history book in each issue. Over the volumes they are building into a useful collection of books for research and general reading into Tamworth's Heritage and setting its history in to a wider context. Though some books are very specific to a person, place or even event in Tamworth. Click here to view the collection and reviews.

Tamworth Castle Museum and Archive

Tamworth Castle is a great place to visit. However due to space restrictions only a very small part of the collection is on display, with a very small Archive team. This looks like it will remain the case into the foreseeable future.
The Tamworth Digital Archive may be able to help as it often assists the Magazine's readers to make donations to Tamworth Castle Archive. Though it is able to turn around photography and scanning of items far faster than the Castle

Birmingham Heritage Forum

Birmingham Heritage Forum members are organisations concerned with collections, historic sites, museums, galleries, churches, gardens, and visitor services, within the Birmingham area. www.birminghamheritage.org.uk

Staffordshire Regimental Museum and Archive
& Mercian Regimental Archive

The present Museum building was purpose-built as the Regimental Headquarters and Museum of the Staffordshire Regiment. It lies adjacent to the former Whittington Barracks https://staffordshireregimentmuseum.com/

The Magic Attic, Swadlingcote

The Magic Attic is a large local history archive located in South Derbyshire at Sharpe's Pottery Museum, West Street, Swadlincote. Post Code is DE11 9DG .

The archive contains newspapers, photographs, maps, artefacts and family history information for South Derbyshire and surrounding areas.

Visitors and enquiries from outside the region and from abroad are also given every assistance and are equally welcome. We work in close association with the libraries of Swadlincote and Burton on Trent and with most of the local history groups. http://www.magicattic.org.uk/