Plymouth, Montserrat.
Image: Plymouth in the late nineteenth century.
Joseph Sturge was a nineteenth century antislavery campaigner living in Birmingham. Near the end of his life, he created a free labour plantation on ...
Poetic performance- Benjamin Zephaniah
Britain's most celebrated oral/dub poet Benjamin Zephaniah was born in Birmingham and grew up in Handsworth during the 1970s. Zephaniah popularised the poetic form of dub poetry which originates from ...
Pogus Caesar
Pogus Caesar, Director of the media company Windrush Productions; and photographer: "Keep your third eye open and you will see a light, you will gain strength from its glow, and you will keep shining. ...
Politics and performance
Performance played an important role in consolidating a sense of community and identity for migrants. Many cultural performances were organised by the Indian Workers Association, including those for Jagmohan ...
Portrait of Rev. Cohen
A portrait of Cohen, minister of Singer's Hill 1913-1949.
Post Office Directry of Trades
Postcard showing woman cycling on Hagley Road
Even in 1905, Hagley Road was a busy thoroughfare, and this view, with the Plough and Harrow Hotel on the left hand side, shows us people getting about in a variety of ways. Pedestrians and cyclists ...
Prayer
Prayer at Mosque, Wolverhampton. Photograph by Nick Hedges for the exhibition 'I'm a Believer - Religion in the West Midlands'.
Prayers
Prayers at Mosque, Wolverhampton. Photograph by Nick Hedges for the exhibition 'I'm a Believer - Religion in the West Midlands'.
Pride
Issue of 'The Outpost'marking the first Birmingham Pride in 1997.
The Birmingham Pride Festival is the largest free gay and lesbian event in the UK, attracting over 100,000 visitors to Birmingham ...
Pride, Victoria Square
This image shows Birmingham Pride in Victoria Square. Pride has become one of the major events in the city's calendar:
“I think one of the big things probably in the last 10 years is the growth of ...
Reading from the Koran
Reading from the Koran, Wolverhampton Mosque. Photograph by Nick Hedges for the exhibition 'I'm a Believer - Religion in the West Midlands'.
Refugees in Birmingham
Image: a photograph of Jewish Refugees in Birmingham. (Harry Levine, Press Cuttings, 1941 part 1).
Behind pictures such as these lies a complicated story. At least 6 million Jews were murdered under ...
Refugees in Birmingham
Image: Harry Levine, Newspaper Cuttings, sept-dec 1942 part 2.
This image features a group of Jewish Refugees in Birmingham, including a young child. Such children were at risk during WWII.
After ...
'Reggae All Nighter'
Poster for an evening of films shown at the Triangle Media and Arts Centre, organised jointly with West Midlands Ethnic Minority Arts Service (WEMAS), on 6 March 1987 from 11.15pm to 8.00am. The poster ...
Relationships and Migration
Many migrants met partners and married once in Britain. Although not uncommon in post-war Britain, relationships between men and women from different ethnic backgrounds were far from widely accepted. ...
Removing Offering from Shrine
Removing offering from shrine, Shri Guru Ravidas Temple, Wolverhampton. Photograph by Nick Hedges for the exhibition 'I'm a Believer - Religion in the West Midlands'.
ResearchingThe West Indies.
Birmingham and The West Indies.
Birmingham's antislavery activists held a special interest in the West Indies. The reader's list for this travel narrative includes here both Joseph Sturge and other ...