‘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...

Birmingham Boys and Girls Union Report

The caption underneath this photograph of boys who attended the junior boys club organised by the Birmingham Boys and Girls Union illustrates the a...

Birmingham City Council Tenants Sub-Committee Minutes

The Tenants Sub-Committee was appointed in November 1922. It reported to the City Estates Committee, its chief function being to deal with applicat...

Birmingham Mail Charity Boots

From 1889 the Birmingham Mail newspaper ran a Christmas appeal. One of the causes it supported was buying boots for poor children who would otherwi...

Birmingham Robins

Extract from the Birmingham Daily Gazette, 12 January 1903 recording the presence of ‘coloured people’ at the Birmingham Robins winter treat. T...

John Phillips, philanthropist (born 1836)

Between 1851 and 1871, the number of Jewish families living in Edgbaston had increased from two to a hundred - an indication of the growing prosper...

Letter from Norman Chamberlain to Boys Club Members

Norman Chamberlain wrote this letter to members of the Boys Club he organised, to be read in the event of his death while serving in the Grenadier ...

Middlemore children on board ship on route to Australia

Middlemore Homes were founded in 1872 by John Throgmorton Middlemore (1844-1924). His mission was to ‘save boys and girls from lives of crime and p...

News Article on a 'Garden for the Blind'

This article documents the initial reactions of some of the first users of a garden for blind and visually impaired people that opened at Queen’s P...

Norman Chamberlain

Norman Chamberlain was the paternal cousin of Neville Chamberlain. He was Chairman of the Parks Committee of Birmingham City Council between 1912 a...

Norton Reformatory admission register

Reproduction of Joseph Pagett, aged 14, a young offender from the admission register of Norton Reformatory. Identification photographs such as t...

Notebook of Robert Aglionby Slaney

These pages are from a series of notebooks kept by Robert Aglionby Slaney, who served as MP for Shrewsbury for several periods between the 1820s an...