During his master studies, Mehmood had read scientific reports of the " Manhattan Project " while receiving his training at the Birmingham University, where he also had an opportunity to discuss enrichment technology with scientists from South Africa, who were then exploring the jet-nozzel aerodynamic process of enrichment.

During the Birmingham riots of 1791 ( in which Priestley's home was demolished ) he prepared to flee from Edgbaston Hall, but his staff kept the rioters at bay until the military arrived.

During a radio interview in Birmingham to promote a British tour of Tom Stoppard's play Dirty Linen in the early 1980s, Cleveland confided an embarrassing incident in dress rehearsal.

During the 1890s, air rifles were used in Birmingham, England, for competitive target shooting.

During this time over 4, 000 air rifle clubs and associations existed across Great Britain, many of them in Birmingham.

During the Second World War and in the period immediately afterwards several enthusiasts, particularly from the Birmingham area, had become aware of the narrow gauge railways of Wales and there had been suggestions that one of the lines, most probably the Ffestiniog Railway, could be saved.

During the electrification of the West Coast Main Line by British Railways, Birmingham Snow Hill handled most of the rail traffic through the city, but the subsequent Beeching closure programme in the 1960s took the view that Snow Hill station was unnecessary, and all services were switched to New Street and Moor Street.

During part of her time with the RCHME she was seconded to the History Department of the University of Birmingham to research the relationship between settlement and landscape in the East Midlands.

During World War II Wilkins developed improved radar screens at Birmingham, then worked on isotope separation at the Manhattan Project at the University of California, Berkeley during the years 1944 – 45.

During the 1930s, the sport grew in popularity, especially in Britain where teams from the Birmingham Small Arms Company ( BSA ), Norton, Matchless, Rudge, and AJS competed in the events.

During this period he maintained his legal practice and campaigned for the Guildford Four, the Birmingham Six, and Brian Keenan.

During the Birmingham Six controversy, then Home Secretary Douglas Hurd stressed that he could only make the decision for a pardon if he was " convinced of innocence ", which at the time he was not.

During the 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion, pilots and crews from the Alabama Air National Guard's 117th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing at Birmingham were selected to train Cuban exile fliers in Nicaragua to fly the Douglas B-26 Invader in the close air support role.

During this season, Heskey gave inconsistent performances and received abuse from Birmingham fans.

During the period 1919 – 1925 Morris built or purchased factories at Abingdon, Birmingham, and Swindon to add to that in Oxford.

During the anti-Catholic Gordon Riots in 1780, large crowds assembled in Birmingham.

During their time in the Birmingham and District League, Wrexham won the Welsh Cup six times, in 1908 – 09, 1909 – 10, 1910 – 11, 1913 – 14, 1914 – 15, and 1920 – 21.

During the televised competition, Studdard gained the nickname " Velvet Teddy Bear " and was noted for his shirts printed with " 205 ", the telephone area code of his hometown of Birmingham.

During the later years of the Civil War the subversive potential of Birmingham's manufacturing-based society was personified by the local parliamentarian colonel John " Tinker " Fox, who recruited a garrison of 200 men from the Birmingham area and occupied Edgbaston Hall from 1643.

During the 2010 General Election the Green Party stood down in favour of Respect candidates in Birmingham Sparkbrook and Manchester, Blackley and Broughton indicating the beginning of a tentative cooperation.

During his time in Birmingham, he continued his work as a minister, regularly preaching at the Wesleyan People's Chapel.

During the construction, the Tide was forced to play its entire 1987 home schedule at Legion Field, from campus in Birmingham.

During the 2007 tour, Bill Priddle broke his collar bone, just before the 16th October gig at the Birmingham Academy II.

( ref: Carl Chinn ( 1996 ) Brum Undaunted: Birmingham During the Blitz, Birmingham Library Services ) During World War II, West Indians had arrived as part of the colonial war effort, where they worked in Birmingham munitions factories.

During the second to last show of the tour in Nuremberg, Germany, Blitz suffered a stroke on stage and collapsed.

During the Blitz, several buildings were destroyed or damaged by the Luftwaffe, although the area was not so adversely affected as many other districts of inner London.

During the Blitz a number of buildings were damaged or destroyed by the Luftwaffe, including All Saints ' church, which was hit in 1940 and again in 1944.

During World War II, much of the area was damaged in the Blitz and many were made homeless, although the level of destruction was much lower than in those areas of East London further south such as Stepney or Shoreditch or even in next-door Hackney.

During World War II the university suffered damage in the Southampton Blitz with bombs landing on the campus and its halls of residence.

During the Second World War, she became an acclaimed war correspondent for Vogue, covering events such as the London Blitz, the liberation of Paris, and the concentration camps at Buchenwald and Dachau.

During the Coventry Blitz the Germans pioneered several innovations which were to influence all future strategic bomber raids during the war.

During the Second World War, the Inn was badly damaged during the Blitz in 1941, with the Hall, the Chapel, the Library and many other buildings hit and almost destroyed.

During the Second World War the Hall was one of those buildings badly damaged during the Blitz.

During the Second World War, the town was bombed by the Luftwaffe at around midnight on 7 April 1941, as part of a series of raids on the Greater Glasgow area during early 1941, which included the notorious Clydebank Blitz some three weeks earlier.

During The Blitz, the Old Bailey was bombed and severely damaged, but subsequent reconstruction work restored most of it in the early 1950s.

During the winter Blitz on London of 1940 – 41, the Defiant equipped four squadrons, shooting down more enemy aircraft than any other type.

During the ban the Daily Worker offices at Cayton Street were totally destroyed by fire during The Blitz on 16 April 1941.

During the Second World War Waterloo station and the nearby Thames bridges were a significant target for bombing, and there were several near-misses on the station during the London Blitz of 1940 – 41.

During the Liverpool Blitz of May 1941 a bomb fell nearby and shattered the glass.

During the Blitz on 19 March 1941, incendiary bombs landed on the roof causing it to collapse, burning into the nave.

During the Blitz, all of Britain's major industrial, cathderal, and political cites were heavily bombed.

During the Blitz on Sheffield by the Luftwaffe, the bombers used the dam at the end of Stocksbridge as a turning point for their run back toward Sheffield.

During World War II, parts of the BBC evacuated to Bangor during the worst of the Blitz.

During the Second World War, a third of the Polytechnic's campus was destroyed or damaged from the Blitz.

During Home Builders Blitz 2008, more than 1, 000 building industry professionals in 110 Habitat for Humanity affiliates built 263 new homes across the United States.

During World War II, the docks area was heavily bombed during the Blitz, in an attempt to destroy the British economy.

During the Baedeker Blitz of 1942, a bomb fell into the Circus, demolishing several of the houses.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and William Phillips ( editor ) | William Phillips at a International PEN | PEN meeting in New Delhi, Sept 20, 1962. During World War II she lived in Hendon in London, experienced the Blitz and began to speak English rather than German.