A Gun Manufacturer

Image: A Trade Card of John Sharpe (date unknown). In the eighteenth and nineteenth century, many Birmingham gun manufacturers relied upon forei...

A Nineteenth Century Jewish Obituary

A Jewish Obituary, dated 22/9/75 (newspaper unknown). A. S. Blanckensee was another significant figure of the nineteenth century Birmingham Hebr...

A Petition to Continue the Slave Trade

Did Birmingham Profit from Slavery? As an industrial town, Birmingham undoubtedly relied heavily on its connections to the slave trade. It was ...

A Record of the Birmingham Hebrew Congregation Council

This is one of the very first entries contained in the archive of the Birmingham Hebrew Congrebation (reference: Birmingham City Archives, JA) date...

A Tobacco Dealer.

Image: A Tobacco, Cigar and Snuff Dealer. Trade Card (date unknown) Illustrated industrial artifacts such as the above advert for a Birmingham t...

Account of The Life of Jacob Jacobs (2)

Account of the Life of Jacobs Jacobs (1)

Admission Record for Joseph Pagett, Register of Norton Reformatory

In the first half of the 19th century statistical studies seemed to show that Britain was being engulfed by a growing population of hardened young ...

Advertisement for Holder's Ales, 1891

The title pages from Edgbastonia carried advertisements across the top. This one is for Holder's Ales, owned by Sir John Holder of Moor Gre...

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...

African Roscius

This is a playbill for a production of Othello, performed at the Theatre Royal, Birmingham in 1846. The production starred renowned black actor Ira...

Amanda Smith

Amanda Smith came to Birmingham in 1879. Born into slavery in the United States, Amanda Smith's father bought his freedom and that of his family. S...