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...

"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...

"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 ...

Antislavery and the Birmingham Quaker 'Friends Book Society',

In order for the Birmingham Antislavery Society to be effective in campaigning for social justice, it was vital that they had a network system that...

Boys Brigade on Whit Sunday March

Boys Brigade on Whit Sunday March, Wolverhampton. Photograph by Nick Hedges for the exhibition 'I'm a Believer - Religion in the West Midlands'.

J.A.James

John Angell James was an important local 'congregationalist' minister based at Carrs Lane church, Birmingham. He was a longstanding member of the B...

Jane Suffield

Submitted by Maggie Burns, Birmingham Archives and Heritage. In the early nineteenth century education was a privilege. The parents of upper an...

Most Reverend and Right Honourable Dr John Sentamu, Archbishop of York

Interviewed when Bishop of Stepney: "I think the greatest mistake people make... is to have a half-hearted attitude. An African proverb is: 'We are...

Pat's Journey to Birmingham

Pat met his wife Bridget when they got talking on the bus as she was going to mass. She had come to England from Galway, Ireland around the sam...

Rev Peter Stanford.

Stanford was born into slavery in America in 1860. He came to Birmingham in 1887 as a preacher in Hope Street Baptist Church, Highgate. This possib...

Society for Promoting Christianity Among The Jews

As this document shows, whilst the Jewish community was beginning to become more involved in the civic life of the town, this development was not w...