"Charles Parker and The Radio Ballads"

The Radio Ballads and the Oral History Tradition ‘England, England, and there’s nowhere like it at dawn’. These words come from a working class...

Banner Theatre, Play Advertisements

Image: Fragment of brown paper with hand drawn logo for Banner Theatre. This exhibition represents a spectrum Banner Theatre's past productions...

News Article on a 'Garden for the Blind'

This article documents the initial reactions of some of the first users of a garden for blind and visually impaired people that opened at Queen’s P...

Script for 'The Colony'

Page from the script of ‘The Colony’, a film about the African Caribbean community in Handsworth, Birmingham, made for the BBC in 1964 by the film ...

Script for 'Under the Apple Tree'

Page from the script of ‘Under the Apple Tree’ made for the BBC in 1969-70 by Charles Parker using recordings made by Dilip Hiro where people talke...

West Midlands Gypsy Liaison Group

Letter from Charles Parker, Chairman of the West Midlands Gypsy Liaison Group, to members, dated 3rd July 1970.