Borys Liakhu

The establishment of any Jewish community usually begins with a synagogue, and the example of Singers Hill Synagogue is a clear illustration of this. People gather around the synagogue; it leads to the establishment of...

Birmingham is traditionally associated with the Industrial Revolution, engineering, and innovation. It was here that technologies were developed that transformed Britain, and for centuries the local factories and workshops attracted people with unconventional thinking. It...

Birmingham is one of those cities that doesn’t feel the need to prove how ‘cool’ it is with words, because it has factories, canals, engineering workshops, and a touch of the Industrial Revolution’s stubbornness in...

Birmingham, like any city in the world, has long existed in two parallel realities. In one, it is a city of universities, businesses, industrial traditions, and staid British reserve. In the other, it is an...

Postwar Birmingham has a rather interesting—if not downright strange—reputation in British culture. While London in the prewar history of the early 1940s was traditionally presented as the capital of art, fashion, new ideas, and talented...

It turns out that in Birmingham, you can ‘visit’ India, Jamaica, or somewhere between Eastern Europe and the Middle East in just ten minutes—all you need to do is stroll through the rows of Brum...

There is a special atmosphere in Birmingham when, at the end of summer, the city seems to slow down a little and allow itself an extra, almost incongruous sense of joy. It is a time...

If you think that crowdfunding is a 21st-century invention, then you simply haven’t looked at 18th-century Birmingham. There, the idea of collective fundraising didn’t look like a trendy tool or a marketing strategy—rather, like a...

If you happen to come across a saxophonist in Birmingham this July, don’t rush to get your change out—chances are, this isn’t a street musician trying to scrape together enough for a ticket home, but...