‘Europe Peace or Famine - Which’, by Joseph Southall

The Edgbaston Quaker artist Joseph Southall contributed occasional prints to Sylvia Pankhurst's anti-war suffragette broadsheet 'The Woman's Dreadn...

‘Wounded Soldiers at a Concert', Southern Hospital

This postcard shows a montage of scenes of wounded soldiers attending outdoor music entertainments at the Southern General military hospital, Edgba...

Fables and Illustrations, by Joseph Southall

This powerful nightmare vision of a weapon of mass destruction is by the Quaker artist Joseph Southall who lived and worked in Edgbaston. 'The Obli...

Bournville Works and the War 1914-1919

Bournville Works and the War 1914-1919 was a commemorative publication produced at the request of Cadbury’s employees in 1920. Throughout t...

Sketch for Peace, by Joseph Southall

This sketch is from a collection of material relating to the artist Joseph Southall held at the Birmingham Museum and Art Galleries. Southall was b...

'A Medical Board', by W.L. Sherwood

This caricature by Staff-Sergeant W.L. Sherwood presents a sardonic view of the Medical Boards, which decided the fates of many soldiers during the...

'A Patient's Nightmare', by Will Adams

This grim satirical caricature conveys something of the deeply divided emotional response experienced by soldiers who were surgical patients in the...

'Being Marked Out'

This is one of several caricatures published by wounded soldiers in the Edgbaston WW1 military hospital magazine that express deeply conflicted fe...

Belgian Refugee Register: War Refugee Committee

The Belgian Refugee War Register is one of a series of documents associated with the Belgian War Relief Fund that was established during World War ...

Belgian refugees at Moor Green House, Moseley

Billiards at Highbury Hospital

This photograph shows WW1 wounded soldiers enjoying a game of billiards during a recreation break in the pioneering orthopaedic rehabilitation prog...

Birmingham and District War Refugees Committee, Register of Belgian refugees

During World War 1 thousands of refugees escaped from war-torn Belgium and many settled in Birmingham. The Birmingham War Refugees Committee chair...