Labour in Portuguese West Africa, by W.A. Cadbury

William Cadbury’s 1909 publication Labour in Portuguese West Africa documented William Cadbury and Joseph Burtt’s visit to Angola and San Th...

Landscape, by Roger Fry

This is one of six paintings by Roger Fry housed in University House, Edgbaston, where his sister

Mr Wheeley's, Edgbaston, by Charles Barber

Many of Charles Barber’s drawings are simply labelled with their district rather than a specific location, but this farmhouse is helpfully titled <...

Sketch for Peace, by Joseph Southall

This sketch is from a collection of material relating to the artist Joseph Southall held at the Birmingham Museum and Art Galleries. Southall was b...

The Junction, Kings Norton, by Frank Lockwood

Campaigning for Canals in Kings Norton Frank Lockwood’s pencil drawing The Junction, Kings Norton shows the toll house i...

The Sitting Room, by Myra Bunce

‘Mr. Bunce is an intense lover of art and artists […] notable examples of Wainwright, of his old friend Henshaw, of H. Moore, Langley, J. Collier, ...

Women Employees arriving at work

Cadbury’s archives hold a bound volume of Personal Reminiscences of Bridge Street and Bournville 1870-1929 by 63 men and women living at the tim...

19th Century Black Performance

Black performance in Britain has a long history. As far back as the sixteenth century musicians had a presence in public life, playing at the court...

20th Century Black Performance

As migrants from South Asia and the Caribbean arrived after the Second World War a dramatic change took effect in the direction of black performanc...

A Boy and a Catch of Fish

This photograph shows a boy and a catch of fish, with the fishing rod and basket beside a tree.

A Government School in Wadi Halfa

This photograph shows advanced scholars and teachers at a Government School in Wadi Halfa.

A Gun Manufacturer

Image: A Trade Card of John Sharpe (date unknown). In the eighteenth and nineteenth century, many Birmingham gun manufacturers relied upon forei...