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...

"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...

A Legacy of Anti-Fasicm

Image: Civil Liberties in Britain, (extract) 1965. Jewish activists would continue to play a significant role in Birmingham throughout the twent...

Advertisement for the Women's Social and Political Union

‘The Rights of Woman’, what are they? The right her husband to obey, The right to show forth all her life How proud she is to be a wife! The ...

Banner Theatre, Play Advertisements

Image: Fragment of brown paper with hand drawn logo for Banner Theatre. This exhibition represents a spectrum Banner Theatre's past productions...

Birmingham and the Grunwick Dispute 1976-1978

SETTING THE SCENE ‘Grunwick’ was an industrial dispute centred on Cricklewood, north London but which had national significance. Political and ...

Birmingham Broadside November 1977

BIRMINGHAM’S SOLIDARITY Birmingham Broadside November 1977 MS 1591 Paul Mackney Collection This image reflects both traditional and emerging a...

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...

Birmingham's First Turbanned Guard

In both the workplace and the school, the denial of the right of Sikh men and boys to wear one of the fundamental symbols of their faith and identi...

Black People Against State Brutality

Flyers were an important medium for publicising Indian Workers Association campaigns. Many were quite unsophisticated in appearance due to the limi...

Equal Rights

The 1990s were more encouraging for the gay and lesbian community with the repeal of Section 28, the equalisation of age of consent and from 1997 t...