A Petition to Continue the Slave Trade

Did Birmingham Profit from Slavery? As an industrial town, Birmingham undoubtedly relied heavily on its connections to the slave trade. It was ...

A Record of the Birmingham Hebrew Congregation Council

This is one of the very first entries contained in the archive of the Birmingham Hebrew Congrebation (reference: Birmingham City Archives, JA) date...

A Tobacco Dealer.

Image: A Tobacco, Cigar and Snuff Dealer. Trade Card (date unknown) Illustrated industrial artifacts such as the above advert for a Birmingham t...

Abolition of Slavery: The Birmingham Antislavery Society's Opening Statement.

This document identifies the original members of the Birmingham Anti Slavery Society and provides an ‘opening statement’ of their aims and objectiv...

Account of The Life of Jacob Jacobs (2)

Account of the Life of Jacobs Jacobs (1)

Adams Hill Children's Home, Bartley Green

190 Adams Hill was a purpose-built children's home with 8 beds. It opened in 1963. It was designed to be a small family home (also known as a scatt...

Admission Record for Joseph Pagett, Register of Norton Reformatory

In the first half of the 19th century statistical studies seemed to show that Britain was being engulfed by a growing population of hardened young ...

Adventure Playgrounds

Danish landscape architects and town planners became interested in the concept of adventure playgrounds, also known as 'junk playgrounds', in the 1...

Advertisement for Holder's Ales, 1891

The title pages from Edgbastonia carried advertisements across the top. This one is for Holder's Ales, owned by Sir John Holder of Moor Gre...

Advertisement for the Women's Social and Political Union

‘The Rights of Woman’, what are they? The right her husband to obey, The right to show forth all her life How proud she is to be a wife! The ...

Advertisement placed by Cadbury in The Nursery World advising parents on how to prevent children suffering from war worries

Cadbury advertised their Bourn-vita drink as a nutritious product that would help children sleep and avoid war worries. Child psychologists and the...