Black Country History

Welcome to Black Country History

Welcome to Black Country History, the searchable online catalogue for the Black Country archive and museum services.

This website enables you to search simultaneously across all four Black Country record office catalogues to find information about records held by Dudley Archives and Local History Service, Dudley Archives and Local History Service, Sandwell Community History and Archives Service and Walsall Local History Centre, Wolverhampton Archives and Local Studies.

You can also search the catalogues of the regions arts and museums services to find objects and works of art held by Dudley Museums Service, Sandwell Museums Service, Walsall Museums Service and Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service.

From This Screen You Can:

• Do a simple search in the catalogues of the archives, local studies and arts and museums services or illustrations and images from all eight partners
Use the Advanced Search to search the catalogues in one, some or all of the contributing partners using the link at the top of this page
Use the Advanced Search to search for illustrations or images in one, some or all of the contributing partners using the link at the top of this page
Find more information on the collections and help with searching

The Black Country History web site was produced by the Documenting the Workshop of the World project, with a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund. Addition of arts and museums catalogues to the website has been funded by the Museums, Libraries and Archives council under their Renaissance in the Regions programme.

Image from the archives

New records are constantly being added. Keep checking back for the latest updates.