"My Journey to and Life in Britain"

MY JOURNEY TO AND LIFE IN BRITAIN My name is Sarwan Singh. I came to this country in 1960. I have lived all my life in Handsworth and worked in ...

‘Europe Peace or Famine - Which’, by Joseph Southall

The Edgbaston Quaker artist Joseph Southall contributed occasional prints to Sylvia Pankhurst's anti-war suffragette broadsheet 'The Woman's Dreadn...

Anti-Jewish Conversion Society

A Jewish form of resistance to organisations such as the Birmingham auxillary of the 'Society for Promoting Christianity Amoung the Jews' was to en...

Birmingham International Marxist Group

Birmingham International Marxist Group [IMG] MS 1591 Paul Mackney Collection Despite advocating a mass picket in support of the ‘Grunwick’ striker...

Faces and Places: Sarwan Singh and the Indian Workers Association

[Submitted by Sarwan Singh] On the 3rd of October 2008 Birmingham Stories held an event entitled 'Race and Racism' in Birmingham Central Library...

'Free Nelson Mandela' Flyer

Birmingham District Labour Party Youth Liaison Committee flyer advertising a meeting on Wednesday 26th November at Handsworth Technical College [19...

Gay Liberation Front

The 1970s saw the emergence of the Birmingham Gay Liberation Front, the rise of feminism and the beginnings of a ‘gay scene’ in the city, although ...

'Gays and Fascism'

LGBT people have faced serious prejudice and persecution in the past, and the cover of this issue of 'Gladrag' (the newsletter of the Birmingham Ga...

Homes for Birmingham: the Communist Party Plan

At the end of the Second World War public housing had become an increasingly contentious political issue. Both mainstream and fringe parties printe...

I am a Lesbian and I am Beautiful

Issue of 'Gladrag', the newsletter of the Birmingham Gay Liberation Front, showing a very different image of a lesbian to the stereotypical represe...

Indian Workers' Association GB [IMG]

Indian Workers’ Association GB (Birmingham Branch) MS 2141 IWA The IWA combined Marxist politics with a concern for the plight of Asians and other...

My journey to and Life in Britain

My Expectations of coming to Britain; My expectations were that I could find a job and earn some money, and come back to my country and live a b...