Harriet Beecher Stowe In Birmingham (Part 2)

(cont..)Newspaper account of Harriet Beecher Stowe's visit to Birmingham and its local antislavery societies.

"A Striking Modern Fact"

Image:The Birmingham Post, Rev. Cohen Speech (an extract) 1933. Rev Abraham Cohen gave many memorable and powerful speeches on behalf of the Je...

"Questions of Travel": The Lives of Benjamin Stone and Helen Caddick

All text by Dr Andy Green “From the time I was a very young man, I have been a great traveller ” (Stone, ‘Mainly about People’, 1908). On...

"Stone Photographic Collection"

This exhibition features just a few samples from the extensive photographic collection of Sir Benjamin Stone (1838-1914). The collection includ...

"William Joseph McCardie": Birmingham's Pioneering Anaesthetist

The following text is taken from a Birmingham Stories oral history interview with Harry McCardie, who grew up in a family home in Birmingham, Edgb...

‘Children of the poor’ taken on an outing of the Birmingham Cinderella Club to Sutton Park by J. Crwys Richards

Social reformers like Charles Dickens and Mary Carpenter in the 19th century, and Robert Sherard in the 20th were concerned that being out on the s...

‘Children of the poor’ taken on an outing of the Birmingham Cinderella Club to Sutton Park by J. Crwys Richards

‘Children of the poor’ taken on an outing of the Birmingham Cinderella Club to Sutton Park by J. Crwys Richards

‘In the Happy Days of Our Childhood’ by Maria Cadbury

Maria wrote this memoir much later in life at the request of her niece. Maria was born in 1838 and was the daughter of John Cadbury and his wife Ca...

‘In the Happy Days of Our Childhood’ by Maria Cadbury

In the late 18th and 19th centuries seaside holidays became popular with those families who could afford them. With improved transport links, this...

‘Inspector and Starved Child', National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, Birmingham Branch Fourth Annual Report

In the late 19th century many children were seen as victims, not of the cruelty of the workplace, but of their parents and neighbours. The NSPCC en...

A Gypsy Encampment, by David Cox

Artists have often sentimentalised gypsies, using them as local colour in idealised rural settings. Here, however, it appears that David Cox has sk...