Refugees in Birmingham

Image: Harry Levine, Newspaper Cuttings, sept-dec 1942 part 2. This image features a group of Jewish Refugees in Birmingham, including a young ...

ResearchingThe West Indies.

Birmingham and The West Indies. Birmingham's antislavery activists held a special interest in the West Indies. The reader's list for this trav...

Rev Peter Stanford.

Stanford was born into slavery in America in 1860. He came to Birmingham in 1887 as a preacher in Hope Street Baptist Church, Highgate. This possib...

Rev Thomas Swan

Image of Rev Thomas Swan, minister of the Cannon Street Baptist Church and member of the Birmingham Antislavery society. Birmingham City archives h...

Revolutionary Poetry

This image shows the front cover of Pemane Inqlab- a collection of revolutionary poetry by Asar Hoshiarpuri (Jagmohan Joshi's pen name.) Joshi'...

Rhoda Anstey (1865 – 1936)

Submitted by Dr Tansin Benn (Last appointed lecturer to Anstey College of Physical Education, 1981 - 1984) and Dr Ida Webb (Last female Principal D...

Rt Hon Paul Boateng

Rt Hon Paul Boateng, MP: "I see life as a series of opportunities, and you make the most of them. You give of yourself, and of what skills and tale...

Samaj in'a Babylon

Samaj in’a Babylon MS 1591 Paul Mackney Collection As well as ‘traditional’ socialist newspapers and magazines, support for the ‘Grunwick’ str...

Silhouette of Sturge Family

Image: 'Sophia Sturge, A Memoir'(1940) This silhouette possibly features the inside of Sturge's home on Wheeley's Road. (Click zoomify to en...

Sir Herman Ouseley

Sir Herman Ouseley, Former Chair and Executive of the Commission for Racial Equality: "You've got to take some responsibility for your life and the...

Socialist Challenge 'Labour Special Patrol Group'

Socialist Challenge ‘Labour Special Patrol Group’ MS 1591 Paul Mackney Collection As the dispute proceeded, serious confrontations occurred betwee...

Staff Recommends: 'Refugee Movements'

This is an additional miscellaneous resource list of materials on the subject of ‘migration stories’. Each item was suggested by the staff of Birmi...