Analysis of Water from Gloster Cottage, 30 Metchley Lane

The Calthorpe Estate was still being developed during the 1880s as a comfortable retreat for the wealthy; but within its boundaries were many farm...

Ann Street School, Birmingham

Oil painting by Alfred H. Green (c.1822-?). Past schooling is brought vibrantly to life in this painting. We can see infants sewing, reading, li...

Anti-Jewish Conversion Society

A Jewish form of resistance to organisations such as the Birmingham auxillary of the 'Society for Promoting Christianity Amoung the Jews' was to en...

Antislavery and the Birmingham Quaker 'Friends Book Society',

In order for the Birmingham Antislavery Society to be effective in campaigning for social justice, it was vital that they had a network system that...

Antislavery Lecture by James Watkins- Advertisement Poster.

James Watkins, originally named Sam Berry, was born in 1821 on a slave plantation in Maryland. His book, ‘The Narrative of the Life of James Watkin...

Antislavery Lecture by Rev Thomas Swan (extract).

Lectures, speeches, public addresses and sermons were a vitally important way of spreading the word about slavery to the Birmingham public. The ext...

Apprenticeship agreement between Thomas Stirling of the parish of St. Giles in the Fields, London, and George Hardy, chimney sweep, of St. Marylebone

Climbing boys were sent up chimneys to clean them. Although there were fewer of them than other child workers their sufferings captured the imagina...

Arthur and Rachel Albright with their eight children

Beaumont Albright was born on 21 August 1861 at the family home in Edgbaston. He was the youngest of eight children of Quakers Arthur Albright and ...

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...

Autobiography of Richard Bennett, chimney sweep, written for the Birmingham Association for the Suppression of Climbing Boys

In the 1830s John Cadbury led a campaign in Birmingham against the employment of climbing boys. He called a meeting of all the sweeps in the town a...

Barbados

Originally captioned 'Descendants of Cromwell's Deported Irish', Barbados, from the collection of Sir Benjamin Stone.

Birmimgham's 'Negro Emancipation School'.

Image: The Negro Emancipation School (Subscribers List) This rare document shows how in 1838 many of the members of the Birmingham Antislavery S...