"Stone Photographic Collection"

This exhibition features just a few samples from the extensive photographic collection of Sir Benjamin Stone (1838-1914). The collection includ...

"Terry Lo: From Cathay to Pershore Street"

Photographs by Terry Lo, produced for the exhibition 'From Cathay to Pershore Street', portraying the everday life of the Chinese community in Birm...

"The Joseph Sturge Monument "

The Joseph Sturge Monument at Five Ways: A Photographic Essay. All text by Dr Andy Green This city story highlights the changing fortunes of...

"Triangle Photography Gallery Posters"

Derek Bishton was director of the Triangle Photography Gallery, part of the Triangle Arts and Media Centre at Gosta Green, Birmingham, between c.19...

"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...

[Causeway Green Hostel, Birmingham 1949]

[Submitted by Kevin Searle] One important reason as to why the black community in London, developed around Brixton, is because many of the arri...

‘A Birmingham workshop’, from ‘The Child Slaves of Britain’ by Robert Sherard

Sherard was a journalist who campaigned against the exploitation of child workers.

‘Before and After’ photographs of Henry from the Annual Report of Middlemore Homes

Middlemore Homes relied on public donations to fund their work. ‘Before and after’ photographs were used to promote the Homes and raise money by sh...

‘Birmingham Wheels’, Bordesley

‘Children of the poor’ taken on an outing of the Birmingham Cinderella Club to Sutton Park by J. Crwys Richards

Social reformers like Charles Dickens and Mary Carpenter in the 19th century, and Robert Sherard in the 20th were concerned that being out on the s...

‘Children of the poor’ taken on an outing of the Birmingham Cinderella Club to Sutton Park by J. Crwys Richards

‘Children of the poor’ taken on an outing of the Birmingham Cinderella Club to Sutton Park by J. Crwys Richards