"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...

"Ghazala Saddique: Lok Mela Festival, Birmingham"

Photographs by Ghazala Saddique, October 2000. Lok Mela is the national folk festival of Pakistan, held in the first week of October. It is a cu...

"Pogus Caesar: Muzik Kinda Sweet"

Photographs of black musicans, from the exhibition "Muzik Kinda Sweet" by Birmingham film-maker, photographer and artist Pogus Caesar. For the ...

"Proud History"

The histories of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people in Birmingham and the West Midlands remain largely hidden from view although recen...

"Questions of Travel": The Lives of Benjamin Stone and Helen Caddick

All text by Dr Andy Green “From the time I was a very young man, I have been a great traveller ” (Stone, ‘Mainly about People’, 1908). On...

"Triangle Photography Gallery Posters"

Derek Bishton was director of the Triangle Photography Gallery, part of the Triangle Arts and Media Centre at Gosta Green, Birmingham, between c.19...

‘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

‘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...

‘Hampshire Village Play’ from ‘Back to the Village’ series