Birmingham Boys and Girls Union Report

The caption underneath this photograph of boys who attended the junior boys club organised by the Birmingham Boys and Girls Union illustrates the a...

Birmingham Broadside November 1977

BIRMINGHAM’S SOLIDARITY Birmingham Broadside November 1977 MS 1591 Paul Mackney Collection This image reflects both traditional and emerging a...

Birmingham Bus Crew Member

This photograph was taken some time after Birmingham City Transport abandoned it’s ‘colour bar’ in 1954 (see

Birmingham Buses and the Colour Bar

Mirroring the situation in other British cities, in post-war Birmingham black people were barred from employment as conductors or drivers on buses....

Birmingham City Council Interviewing Sub-Committee Minutes

Using powers conferred by public health and housing legislation, the

Birmingham City Council Tenants Sub-Committee Minutes

The Tenants Sub-Committee was appointed in November 1922. It reported to the City Estates Committee, its chief function being to deal with applicat...

Birmingham City Transport Bus Ticket

Birmingham City Transport [BCT]: Serving Passengers and Rate Payers The bus ticket was purchased by a worker at Longbridge. It ...

Birmingham City Transport Report

Recruitment in Eire 1951 This report reflects a major aspect of Birmingham’s dependence on immigrant labour in the 1950s and be...

Birmingham Infants’ Health Society and School of Mother-craft, 6th Annual Report

Theories about child development in 19th century science, medicine and anthropology led to the emergence of the idea of ‘the normal child’. Childre...

Birmingham International Marxist Group

Birmingham International Marxist Group [IMG] MS 1591 Paul Mackney Collection Despite advocating a mass picket in support of the ‘Grunwick’ striker...

Birmingham Mail Charity Boots

From 1889 the Birmingham Mail newspaper ran a Christmas appeal. One of the causes it supported was buying boots for poor children who would otherwi...

Birmingham Pageant

In 1938 Birmingham celebrated the 100th anniversary of the city’s Borough Charter. A pageant was the main feature of the celebrations, held at Asto...