Bournville Work & Play

The publication Bournville Work & Play was one of a series of publications produced by Cadbury during the 1920s and 30s. The publications we...

The Sitting Room, by Myra Bunce

‘Mr. Bunce is an intense lover of art and artists […] notable examples of Wainwright, of his old friend Henshaw, of H. Moore, Langley, J. Collier, ...

Advertisement for the Women's Social and Political Union

‘The Rights of Woman’, what are they? The right her husband to obey, The right to show forth all her life How proud she is to be a wife! The ...

African Barkcloth Beater

This barkcloth beater, made from wood and horn, was collected in Africa by the traveller and diarist Helen Caddick, who lived in York Road, Edgbast...

Arts and Charities

Image: Jenny Lind Historical sources show that in the Birmingham Jewish community, drama, literature, music and the arts have always been inte...

Bonnet from Fancy Dress Costume

This fancy dress costume was worn by Florence Barrow, aged 10, in 1886 for the Lord Mayor's Children's Party.

Boy and toy horse

Photograph by Lisel Haas entitled 'Das Neue Pferd' (the new horse).

Cadbury advertisement: Something Like a Present

This window bill is part of a bound volume of advertisements and other marketing paraphernalia produced by Cadbury at their Bournville Works.

Cadbury advertisement: This is a Bournville Workroom

Bournville Works and village was a social and industrial experiment devised by George and Richard Cadbury that was made possible by the relocation ...

Cadbury advertisement: This is a part of the Bournville Recreation Grounds

This is a part of the Bournville Recreation Grounds was one a series of advertisements published by Cadbury between October and November 191...

Cadbury's Cocoa Labelling

This photograph forms part of an archive of photographs produced by Cadbury. Each photograph was catalogued and annotated. Some images were used in...

'Charity', by Bourguereau

Oil painting by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905). For the early Christian Church ‘Charity’ was the ‘mother of all virtues’. From at least ...