"Questions of Travel": The Lives of Benjamin Stone and Helen Caddick

All text by Dr Andy Green “From the time I was a very young man, I have been a great traveller ” (Stone, ‘Mainly about People’, 1908). On...

"Robert Taylor: Portraits of Black Achievement"

Photographs by Robert Taylor produced for the book 'Portraits of Black Achievement: composing successful careers' by Jacqui MacDonald.

"William Joseph McCardie": Birmingham's Pioneering Anaesthetist

The following text is taken from a Birmingham Stories oral history interview with Harry McCardie, who grew up in a family home in Birmingham, Edgb...

Edgbastonia Title Page, 1881

‘The contents will be of local interest, or local production, and […] they shall be of a healthy moral tone, and be altogether non-political and un...

Abiola Awojobi

Abiola Awojobi, BBC Producer: "Success is setting goals for yourself and trying to achieve them. Having a quiet confidence in yourself gives off a ...

Aerial View of Allen's Cross, Northfield

W. Edwards Ltd built the Allen’s Cross estate for Birmingham Corporation in the early 1930s. This photograph was commissioned from Midland Air Serv...

Barbara Tomlinson-Lindsay

Barbara Tomlinson-Lindsay, Career Development Adviser, Department of Trade and Industry: "I am currently a middle manager and yet people often ask ...

Bruce Gill

Bruce Gill, Assistant Director of Personnel and Equalities, Birmingham Education Department: "Don't underestimate what you can do. It is still diff...

Bruce Oldfield

Bruce Oldfield, fashion designer: "Success is being able to do more or less what you want to do, and being able to call the tune...Its learning by ...

Chris Cleverly

Chris Cleverly, Barrister, Head of Trafalgar Chambers: "When you see someone transform themselves, it doesn't really matter what from to where, the...

Contributions of Africans in Birmingham from 1950

Introduction This exhibition offers an insight into the experience of African migrants in Birmingham since 1950. In the sixty years since 1950 B...

Dalton McConney

Dalton McConney, Chief Inspector, London Metropolitan Police: "It takes a high degree of courage by any black person to join the police service and...