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...

Birmingham City Council Improvement Committee Minutes

The appointment of the Improvement Committee in July 1875 marked the earliest initiative by the City Council to tackle Birmingham’s slums. The orig...

Birmingham Council Minutes, 1839.

Birmingham was not officially ‘incorporated’ as a town until the year 1838. Before this date, there no was official ‘council’, but a ‘Streets and P...

Birmingham Daily Post Article

This report discusses an incident in Cannon Hill Park, in which Charles Cartwright's carriage was pelted with snowballs as he drove through the par...

Birmingham Hebrew Philanthropic Society

This image displays the opening minutes of the Birmingham Hebrew Philanthropic Society for the Relief of Indigent Jews. Starting in 1828, this char...

Birmingham Musical Festival

Birmingham Triennial Music Festival, took place from 1768 until the First World War, and was an important showcase of contemporary musical talent. ...

Birmingham Trade Directory 1862

Birmingham's Early Synagogues

Image: An Architectual Drawing of Singer's Hill by Yeovill Thomason. No visual images exist of the very first Jewish synagogue in eighteenth cen...