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Soho House is a museum run by Birmingham Museums Trust, celebrating Matthew Boulton's life, his partnership with James Watt, his membership of the Lunar Society of Birmingham and his contribution to the Midlands Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution.[1]

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  1. 23 relations: Birmingham, Birmingham City Council, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham Museums Trust, Blue plaque, Handsworth, West Midlands, Industrial Revolution, James Watt, James Wyatt, Listed building, Lunar Society of Birmingham, Matthew Boulton, Matthew Piers Watt Boulton, Matthew Robinson Boulton, Midlands Enlightenment, Ormolu, Police, Samuel Wyatt, Soho Manufactory, Sphinx, Staffordshire, The History Press, Vanley Burke.

  2. 1796 establishments in Great Britain
  3. Biographical museums in the West Midlands (county)
  4. Birmingham Museums Trust
  5. Grade II* listed buildings in the West Midlands (county)
  6. Historic house museums in the West Midlands (county)
  7. Lunar Society of Birmingham

Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England.

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Birmingham City Council

Birmingham City Council is the local authority for the city of Birmingham in the West Midlands, England.

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Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (BM&AG) is a museum and art gallery in Birmingham, England. Soho House and Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery are Birmingham Museums Trust.

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Birmingham Museums Trust

Birmingham Museums Trust is the largest independent charitable trust of museums in the United Kingdom.

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Blue plaque

A blue plaque is a permanent sign installed in a public place in the United Kingdom, and certain other countries and territories, to commemorate a link between that location and a famous person, event, or former building on the site, serving as a historical marker.

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Handsworth, West Midlands

Handsworth is an inner-city area of Birmingham in the West Midlands, England.

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Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution, sometimes divided into the First Industrial Revolution and Second Industrial Revolution, was a period of global transition of the human economy towards more widespread, efficient and stable manufacturing processes that succeeded the Agricultural Revolution.

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James Watt

James Watt (30 January 1736 (19 January 1736 OS) – 25 August 1819) was a Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist who improved on Thomas Newcomen's 1712 Newcomen steam engine with his Watt steam engine in 1776, which was fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in both his native Great Britain and the rest of the world.

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James Wyatt

James Wyatt (3 August 1746 – 4 September 1813) was an English architect, a rival of Robert Adam in the neoclassical and neo-Gothic styles.

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Listed building

In the United Kingdom, a listed building is a structure of particular architectural and/or historic interest deserving of special protection.

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Lunar Society of Birmingham

The Lunar Society of Birmingham was a British dinner club and informal learned society of prominent figures in the Midlands Enlightenment, including industrialists, natural philosophers and intellectuals, who met regularly between 1765 and 1813 in Birmingham.

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Matthew Boulton

Matthew Boulton (3 September 172817 August 1809) was an English businessman, inventor, mechanical engineer, and silversmith.

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Matthew Piers Watt Boulton

Matthew Piers Watt Boulton (22 September 1820 – 30 June 1894), also published under the pseudonym M. P. W.

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Matthew Robinson Boulton

Matthew Robinson Boulton (8 August 1770 – 16 May 1842) was an English manufacturer, a pioneer of management, the son of Matthew Boulton and the father of Matthew Piers Watt Boulton, who first patented the aileron.

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Midlands Enlightenment

The Midlands Enlightenment, also known as the West Midlands Enlightenment or the Birmingham Enlightenment, was a scientific, economic, political, cultural and legal manifestation of the Age of Enlightenment that developed in Birmingham and the wider English Midlands during the second half of the eighteenth century.

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Ormolu

Ormolu is the gilding technique of applying finely ground, high-carat gold–mercury amalgam to an object of bronze, and objects finished in this way.

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Police

The police are a constituted body of persons empowered by a state with the aim of enforcing the law and protecting the public order as well as the public itself.

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Samuel Wyatt

Samuel Wyatt (8 September 1737 – 8 February 1807) was an English architect and engineer.

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Soho Manufactory

The Soho Manufactory was an early factory which pioneered mass production on the assembly line principle, in Soho, Birmingham, England, at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.

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Sphinx

A sphinx (σφίγξ,; phíx,; or sphinges) is a mythical creature with the head of a human, the body of a lion, and the wings of an eagle.

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Staffordshire

Staffordshire (postal abbreviation Staffs.) is a landlocked ceremonial county in the West Midlands of England.

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The History Press

The History Press is a British publishing company specialising in the publication of titles devoted to local and specialist history.

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Vanley Burke

Vanley Burke (born 1951) is a British Jamaican photographer and artist.

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See also

1796 establishments in Great Britain

Biographical museums in the West Midlands (county)

Birmingham Museums Trust

Grade II* listed buildings in the West Midlands (county)

Historic house museums in the West Midlands (county)

Lunar Society of Birmingham

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soho_House