Birmimgham's 'Negro Emancipation School'.

Image: The Negro Emancipation School (Subscribers List) This rare document shows how in 1838 many of the members of the Birmingham Antislavery S...

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 Canal

Image: Photograoh from Warwickshire Photographic Survey (date unknown). The canal systems were vital for the developemt of metal industries in B...

Birmingham Council For Refugees

Image:Birmingham Hebrew Congregation Singers Hill Year Book; Annual Report, 31st Dec, 1942. Zoe Josephs has written that one of the first san...

Birmingham Council Minutes, 1839.

Birmingham was not officially ‘incorporated’ as a town until the year 1838. Before this date, there no was official ‘council’, but a ‘Streets and P...

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 'Female Society for the Relief of the Negro Slave’ .

The reports, minute books, cash books and illustrated albums of Birmingham’s ‘Female Society for the Relief of the Negro Slave’ show just how organ...

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 Abolitionists in Birmingham

The following pages give an introduction to some of the black abolitionists who came into contact with Birmingham. They not only campaigned against...

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...

Booker T. Washington

Booker T. Washington, a controversial African-American figure, was perhaps one of the last great abolitionists to visit Birmingham who had lived th...