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...

"William Joseph McCardie": Birmingham's Pioneering Anaesthetist

The following text is taken from a Birmingham Stories oral history interview with Harry McCardie, who grew up in a family home in Birmingham, Edgb...

‘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...

‘Opening of the Christian Kunzle Alpine Home for Children’, The Davos Courier

This article reports the arrival of 36 children from Birmingham Children’s Hospital at the Alpine Home for Children in Davos, Switzerland in 1932. ...

‘Wounded Soldiers at a Concert', Southern Hospital

This postcard shows a montage of scenes of wounded soldiers attending outdoor music entertainments at the Southern General military hospital, Edgba...

'A Medical Board', by W.L. Sherwood

This caricature by Staff-Sergeant W.L. Sherwood presents a sardonic view of the Medical Boards, which decided the fates of many soldiers during the...

'A Patient's Nightmare', by Will Adams

This grim satirical caricature conveys something of the deeply divided emotional response experienced by soldiers who were surgical patients in the...

Analysis of Water from Gloster Cottage, 30 Metchley Lane

The Calthorpe Estate was still being developed during the 1880s as a comfortable retreat for the wealthy; but within its boundaries were many farm...

'Being Marked Out'

This is one of several caricatures published by wounded soldiers in the Edgbaston WW1 military hospital magazine that express deeply conflicted fe...

Billiards at Highbury Hospital

This photograph shows WW1 wounded soldiers enjoying a game of billiards during a recreation break in the pioneering orthopaedic rehabilitation prog...

Birmingham Infants’ Health Society and School of Mother-craft, 6th Annual Report

Theories about child development in 19th century science, medicine and anthropology led to the emergence of the idea of ‘the normal child’. Childre...

Birmingham Musical Festival

Birmingham Triennial Music Festival, took place from 1768 until the First World War, and was an important showcase of contemporary musical talent. ...