Indian Workers' Association GB [IMG]

Indian Workers’ Association GB (Birmingham Branch) MS 2141 IWA The IWA combined Marxist politics with a concern for the plight of Asians and other...

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...

J.W.C Pennington

In 1850, Pennington visited the 'Birmingham Female Society for the Relief of British Negro Slaves'. Dr Pennington was himself a slave until the...

Jessica Huntley

Jessica Huntley, publisher, cultural and political activist: "My mother was a very positive person. She taught me that no one was better than I was...

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...

Joseph Sturge

Image: Copy of an engraving of Joseph Sturge, originally published in 'The British Workman', 1859. Joseph Sturge was a nineteenth century antis...

Joseph Sturge with family and John Bright.

Image: nineteenth century photo of Joseph Sturge, taken from 'Sophia Sturge, A Memoir'(1940). Click on Zoomify to enlarge.

Lesbian and Gay Centre and Switchboard

Birmingham’s Gay Village became home to a number of organisations, such as Lesbian and Gay Switchboard West Midlands. Established in 1975 it offers...

Letter from Birmingham Women’s Welfare Centre to the Bishop of Birmingham

The Birmingham Women’s Welfare Centre was opened in 1927 to offer family planning advice and information to married women, with the aim of improvin...

Letter to the Reverend Thomas Swan

Accounts regarding '£50,000 noted by Parliament in 1835-36 for negro education', from the reverse of letter to Rev. Thomas Swan from W. Hawkins, Ma...

Mary Cottrell

Mary Cottrell was the first female Labour councillor for Birmingham Corporation and was a leading figure of co-operative women’s guilds, both with ...

Memorial celebrating Abolition of the Apprenticeship System

Memorial presented to each Sunday scholar in Birmingham who 'Joined in Celebrating the Freedom of the Negroes'. On 1 August 1838, Joseph Sturge ...