by Jonathan Todd | Sep 28, 2017 | News |
If there were an FC JQ, 1000 Trades would be the biggest supporters of our neighbourhood football club. But just because FC JQ doesn’t exist, it doesn’t mean we aren’t going to get behind Non-League Day 2017. As the people behind Non-League Day...
by Jonathan Todd | Jun 10, 2017 | News |
At our neighbourhood bar and kitchen, 1000 Trades – in Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter – we’re hosting local historian Ginny Caffrey who will tell the story of how Birmingham became ‘City of a Thousand Trades’. Birmingham in the nineteenth...
by Jonathan Todd | Sep 24, 2016 | News, Reviews |
“It is impossible,” Adam Lent argues Small is Powerful, “to imagine the strait-laced, deferential generation of the 1940s and 1950s taking to YouTube to share their latest self-penned song, their deepest thoughts on their mental illness or their customisation of any...
by Jonathan Todd | Sep 14, 2016 | News, Uncategorized |
Celebrate National Poetry Day with a party at 1000 Trades, hosted by local publisher the Emma Press. The evening will include readings, games and prizes, and the launch of the new anthology Watcher of the Skies: Poems about Space and Aliens. Pick a poem from a pile...
by Jonathan Todd | Sep 8, 2016 | News |
Jewellery Quarter bar 1000 Trades will next week lift the covers on a mural “the formative historical moments that have helped shape the contemporary Brummie mind” – at least in the view of Jon Bounds, local historian and man behind the Paradise Circus blog. Bounds,...
by Jonathan Todd | Aug 23, 2016 | News |
We are working with a local artist, Helen Miles, utilising the pictures of Brumpic, to create a mural that depicts – according to local historian Jon Bounds – the ten historical moments that did most to form the contemporary Brummie mind. At this event, we will launch...
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