Truth and Reconciliation
Nelson Mandela unveiling the statue of Steve Biko, East London, South Africa. Photograph by George Hallett.
The Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act was passed in South Africa in 1995, ...
Truth and Reconciliation
The hearing of Steve Biko. Photograph by George Hallett.
The Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act was passed in South Africa in 1995, calling for a commission to be set up to uncover ...
Truth and Reconciliation
Protest in support of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela during hearing. Photograph by George Hallett.
The Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act was passed in South Africa in 1995, calling for ...
Truth and Reconciliation
Jerry Richardson (centre) during the hearings of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. Photograph by George Hallett.
The Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act was passed in South Africa in 1995, ...
Truth and Reconciliation
Three of the mothers of the Gugulethu Seven. Photograph by George Hallett.
The Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act was passed in South Africa in 1995, calling for a commission to be ...
Truth and Reconciliation
During the hearings of The Judiciary. Photograph by George Hallett.
The Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act was passed in South Africa in 1995, calling for a commission to be set up ...
Truth and Reconciliation
Archbishop Desmond Tutu on Robben Island. Photograph by George Hallett.
The Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act was passed in South Africa in 1995, calling for a commission to be set ...
Truth and Reconciliation
Truth and Reconciliation Commission staff travelling to Robben Island by boat. Photograph by George Hallett.
The Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act was passed in South Africa in 1995, ...
Truth and Reconciliation
Audience member at the hearing of Steve Biko. Photograph by George Hallett.
The Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act was passed in South Africa in 1995, calling for a commission to be ...
Views in St Thomé and Angola by William Cadbury and Joseph Burtt
This photograph album was produced as a limited run of 50 copies by Cadbury and supported William Cadbury’s 1909 publication Labour in Portuguese West Africa. The album and book documented William Cadbury ...
Watercolour depicting East Indian Labourers, by Jeanne Borde
In 1903, Jeanne Borde's watercolour of East Indian Labourers was used on the cover of Brandon Head’s book, The Food of Gods.1
1 Brandon Head, The Food of Gods: A Popular Account of Cocoa (1903)
Watercolour depicting Harvesting Cocoa Pods, by Jeanne Borde
Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery’s collections include artwork associated with Cadbury during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The earliest images are a group of watercolours produced ...
Watercolour of Cutting Pods, by Frank Newbould
The final group of images depicting cocoa plantations associated with Cadbury in the early twentieth century are by the artist Frank Newbould. During the 1920s and 1930s, Newbould was commissioned on ...
WEA Development Education Project - Eunice Campbell
My name is Eunice Campbell and I am 72 years old. I was born in Jamaica in the Parish of St Andrews in the district of Rockhall. I am of Caribbean origin and came to England in 1960, I even remember ...
Will Smith
Will Smith, photographed on Broad Street, Birmingham, 2005. From the collection "Muzik Kinda Sweet" by Pogus Caesar/OOM Gallery Archive.
Win the War Day
This photograph of workers from Kynoch Limited in a tableau was taken for ‘Win the War Day’ on 21 September 1918. The group includes a black woman.
Kynoch & Co. opened a factory to manufacture ammunition ...
Yvonne Brewster OBE
Yvonne Brewster OBE, Artistic Director of Talawa Theatre Company: "My mother gets up people's noses; she's my role model! As a black woman in the arts, I had to strategise. I do not like feeling sorry ...