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Harriet Beecher Stowe In Birmingham (Part 2)
(cont..)Newspaper account of Harriet Beecher Stowe's visit to Birmingham and its local antislavery societies.
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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...
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"Equiano and Birmingham"
All text by Dr Andy Green
Equiano and Birmingham: Researching the Links.
This exhibition is intended to generate more research into Olaud...
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"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 ...
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"The Joseph Sturge Monument "
The Joseph Sturge Monument at Five Ways: A Photographic Essay.
All text by Dr Andy Green
This city story highlights the changing fortunes of...
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‘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...
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‘Jamaicans Seeking Work in Britain’
Submitted by Birmingham Stories.
The 22nd of June, 1948, was a deeply important date in British history. This date marked the docking of the Emp...
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‘My Life’s Battles’ by Will Thorne
Will Thorne (1857-1946) was born into a poor family in Farm Street, Hockley on 8 October 1857. His father was a brick maker, and on weekends he wo...
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Fables and Illustrations, by Joseph Southall
This powerful nightmare vision of a weapon of mass destruction is by the Quaker artist Joseph Southall who lived and worked in Edgbaston. 'The Obli...
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A Gypsy Encampment, by David Cox
Artists have often sentimentalised gypsies, using them as local colour in idealised rural settings. Here, however, it appears that David Cox has sk...
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The Junction, Kings Norton, by Frank Lockwood
Campaigning for Canals in Kings Norton
Frank Lockwood’s pencil drawing The Junction, Kings Norton shows the toll house i...
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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...
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