Schools of Thought
- Birmingham School (landscape artists), 18th and 19th century landscape artists
- Birmingham School (engravers), 19th century line-engravers
- Birmingham School (economics), 19th century underconsumptionist economists led by Thomas Attwood
- The Birmingham School in cultural studies, associated with the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies
- The style associated with the artists of the Birmingham Group (artists)
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