About
I am a social and cultural historian with a primary focus on the Black Country in the West Midlands of England. I am a researcher at the Black Country Living Museum, and am writing up my PhD thesis on Irish immigration into Wolverhampton in the mid-19th century at the University of Birmingham. Education
MA Cities, King’s College, London 2010
PhD History, University of Birmingham Publications
Briercliffe, Simon. “BCLM: Forging Ahead: Building a New Urban History of the Black Country.” Urban History 48, no. 2 (2021): 334–50. doi:10.1017/S0963926819001159.
Briercliffe, Simon. “Immigration.” In Dick, Malcolm, David J. Eveleigh, and Janet Sullivan (eds), The Black Country: A History in 100 Objects. Dudley: Black Country Living Museum Publications, 2019: 212-13
Briercliffe, Simon. Forging Ahead: Austerity to Prosperity in the Black Country, 1945-1968. Alcester: History West Midlands, 2021.
