‘A Birmingham workshop’, from ‘The Child Slaves of Britain’ by Robert Sherard

Sherard was a journalist who campaigned against the exploitation of child workers.

‘Children of the poor’ taken on an outing of the Birmingham Cinderella Club to Sutton Park by J. Crwys Richards

Social reformers like Charles Dickens and Mary Carpenter in the 19th century, and Robert Sherard in the 20th were concerned that being out on the s...

‘Children of the poor’ taken on an outing of the Birmingham Cinderella Club to Sutton Park by J. Crwys Richards

‘Children of the poor’ taken on an outing of the Birmingham Cinderella Club to Sutton Park by J. Crwys Richards

‘My Life’s Battles’ by Will Thorne

Will Thorne (1857-1946) was born into a poor family in Farm Street, Hockley on 8 October 1857. His father was a brick maker, and on weekends he wo...

‘Our Alf’s a Postman Now’

A works overall documentary picture

Backing paper annotated with: 'Group in Grounds'. This photograph forms part of an archive of photographs produced by Cadbury. Each photograph w...

Bournville Work & Play

The publication Bournville Work & Play was one of a series of publications produced by Cadbury during the 1920s and 30s. The publications we...

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...

Labour in Portuguese West Africa, by W.A. Cadbury

William Cadbury’s 1909 publication Labour in Portuguese West Africa documented William Cadbury and Joseph Burtt’s visit to Angola and San Th...

Women Employees arriving at work

Cadbury’s archives hold a bound volume of Personal Reminiscences of Bridge Street and Bournville 1870-1929 by 63 men and women living at the tim...

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...