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 ...

Minutes of Edgbaston Archery Association AGM

The Edgbaston Archery Association (later the Edgbaston Archery and Lawn Tennis Association) was formed in 1860. Membership was carefully controlled...

Moses Roper

Moses Roper appears to have been in Birmingham around 1835. 'A Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper from American Slavery' was pub...

My journey to and Life in Britain

I have two elder sisters and a younger brother.I am from a middle class family. I was living in an extended family in India with parents, grand par...

My journey to and Life in Britain

I have two elder sisters and a younger brother. I am from a middle class family. I was living in an extended family in India with parents, grand pa...

My journey to and Life in Britain

My Expectations of coming to Britain; My expectations were that I could find a job and earn some money, and come back to my country and live a b...

My journey to and Life in Britain

I have lived all my life in Handsworth and my family came to this country in 1963. At that time we lived together in the houses with Afro Carib...

My journey to and Life in Britain

I joined Indian Workers Association in late sixties and was a trade union shop steward. I am very proud of the Indian Workers Association becau...

My journey to and Life in Britain

This is a pitcure of my grandad, who is on the left, his brother, who is on the right...and in the middle is another family relative. My grandad...

News Article on 'Suicide in Cannon Hill Park'

There are a surprisingly large number of references in the Birmingham Daily Post between 1857 and 1900 to suicide or attempted suicide in Ca...

NUDAW Stirchley Branch Dinner

The National Union of Shop Distributive and Allied Workers recruited from the

Oswald Mosley

Image: Oswald Mosley at the Town Hall. (Birmingham Newspaper Cuttings Political History 1930-1932) It is important to remember that at the time ...