MAHMOOD HASHMI - Critic, essayist, author, editor, playwright and educationalist Entry submitted by Pervaiz Khan Mahmood Hashmi is a long...

Elizabeth Cadbury (1858-1951)

Entry Submitted by Caroline Forman [Birmingham Archives and Heritage Department] Elizabeth was the wife of George Cadbury, of Cadbury’s Chocola...

Harriet Beecher Stowe In Birmingham (Part 2)

(cont..)Newspaper account of Harriet Beecher Stowe's visit to Birmingham and its local antislavery societies.

Malcolm in Marshall Street (1965)

[Submitted by Paul Quigley] Malcolm X was known around the world as ‘the angriest Black man in America’ and an inspirational speaker on the inju...

"A Striking Modern Fact"

Image:The Birmingham Post, Rev. Cohen Speech (an extract) 1933. Rev Abraham Cohen gave many memorable and powerful speeches on behalf of the Je...

"Birmingham's Council-run Children's Homes"

Between 2009 and 2010 a small team, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and Birmingham City Council, set about creating a history and archive of Bi...

"Brigitte Winsor: Photographs of the St Patrick's Day Parade"

Photographs of the procession through Digbeth, Birmingham, by Brigitte Winsor. The St Patrick's Day Parade in Birmingham started in 1952 and is ...

"Charles Parker and The Radio Ballads"

The Radio Ballads and the Oral History Tradition ‘England, England, and there’s nowhere like it at dawn’. These words come from a working class...

"Church and Community"

A showcase of some of the material contained in the Vanley Burke Archive. Photograph: "Austin Road Pentecostal Church. The two ladies kiss each ...

"Connecting Identities"

Young people's photographs of Aston and Yardley. Connecting Identities was a youth inclusion project, that involved young people using photograp...

"Equiano and Birmingham"

All text by Dr Andy Green Equiano and Birmingham: Researching the Links. This exhibition is intended to generate more research into Olaud...

"Erdington (Aston Union) Cottage Homes / The Gardens, Fentham Road, Erdington"

ASTON UNION COTTAGE HOMES 1900 - 1912 The idea behind the cottage homes was to take children out of the workhouse – the main provision for dest...