Staff Recommends: 'Migration Stories'
This is an additional miscellaneous resource list of materials on the subject of ‘migration stories’. Each item was suggested by the staff of Birmingham's Archives and Heritage Services during research ...
Standard Municipal Housing Designs
Example of non-parlour class of council house, from a roll design templates in the records of Humphries & McDonald, Architects.
Street Boys in Greece
This photograph shows 'street boys' in Patras.
Street Children in Italy
This photograph shows 'street loiterers' in Milan.
Street scene
Photograph of women and children in street. Taken in Salford by Nick Hedges.
Sturge Statue near Broad Street.
Image: Early Twentieth Century Photograph from Warwickshire Photographic Society (Broad Street).
Joseph Sturge was a nineteenth century antislavery campaigner living in Birmingham.
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The Chamberlain Family at Highbury
This photograph is from an album compiled by Mary Endicott Chamberlain, third wife of Joseph Chamberlain. The album contains a number of photographs of the grounds at Highbury Hall, and includes several ...
The Geikwar of Baroda
Photograph taken by Sir Benjamin Stone (1838-1914).
The invention and development of photography brought many more images into circulation in society. As the British Empire grew there was a desire ...
The Geikwar of Baroda
This photograph is annotated with 'The Geikwar of Baroda. Wearing state jewels value £2.000.000'.
The Great Western Arcade
Image: Old and New Birmingham by R.K Dent, 1880. Birmingham Central Library, Local Studies and History.
The Hebrew School Log Book
The Hebrew School Log Book (1867-1886).
This is a page from one of the log books from the National Hebrew School, covering the years of 1867-1886. The Jewish teacher’s entry makes several complaints ...
The Joseph Sturge Oil Portrait.
Image: from Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.
This is one of the few known oil portraits of Joseph Sturge. It is thought to represent the emancipation of apprentices in the West Indies in 1838. Its ...
The Joseph Sturge Portrait- Alternative Version?
Image: Joseph Sturge
This recently discovered drawing seems very close to the 'main' portrait of Joseph Sturge now in the Birmingham Art Gallery. Was the sketch made from the Oil painting? Or was it ...
The Marquess of Donegall as a child by Sir Benjamin Stone
Edward Arthur Donald St George Hamilton Chichester (1903-1975) was Sixth Marquess of Donegall. It was not unusual for boys to wear dresses until the age of 4 or 5 when they were ‘breeched’ or put into ...
'The Pied Piper and the Children of Hamelin'
This photograph shows children performing in a play at Stratford on Avon.
The Quaker Reading Society and 'Slave Narratives'
The records of the Quaker Reading Society identify that its members purchased a number of books that are often referred to as ‘slave narratives’. These were a vital source of information for local antislavery ...
The Shelter Archive: Photographs by Nick Hedges
Between 1968 and 1972 Nick Hedges made a series of photographs for the national housing charity 'Shelter'. Launched in December 1966 (the same month as Ken Loach's influential television drama 'Cathy ...
The Sitting Room, by Myra Bunce
‘Mr. Bunce is an intense lover of art and artists […] notable examples of Wainwright, of his old friend Henshaw, of H. Moore, Langley, J. Collier, Aumonier, East, Donaldson, Thomas Baker, Wyllie, and ...