Bearwood Holocaust Survivor
Image: Harry Levine Jewish Community Press Book Cuttings, 1939-42
no 519406.
Why was it necessary to offer refuge and work to Jewish migrants in the 1930's? This newspaper article features the profoundly ...
Birmimgham's 'Negro Emancipation School'.
Image: The Negro Emancipation School (Subscribers List)
This rare document shows how in 1838 many of the members of the Birmingham Antislavery Society, including Sturge, helped to found a short lived ...
Birmingham and the Grunwick Dispute 1976-1978
SETTING THE SCENE
‘Grunwick’ was an industrial dispute centred on Cricklewood, north London but which had national significance. Political and campaign groups from around Britain rallied to the support ...
Birmingham Broadside November 1977
BIRMINGHAM’S SOLIDARITY
Birmingham Broadside November 1977 MS 1591 Paul Mackney Collection
This image reflects both traditional and emerging aspects of the local labour movement. The report of the ...
Birmingham Canal
Image: Photograoh from Warwickshire Photographic Survey (date unknown).
The canal systems were vital for the developemt of metal industries in Birmingham. See 'Campaiging for Social Justice for a ...
Birmingham Council For Refugees
Image:Birmingham Hebrew Congregation Singers Hill Year Book;
Annual Report, 31st Dec, 1942.
Zoe Josephs has written that one of the first sanctuaries for refugees was a house on Duchess Road, Edgbaston, ...
Birmingham Council Minutes, 1839.
Birmingham was not officially ‘incorporated’ as a town until the year 1838. Before this date, there no was official ‘council’, but a ‘Streets and Paving Commissioners Board’ that held limited means of ...
Birmingham International Marxist Group
Birmingham International Marxist Group [IMG] MS 1591 Paul Mackney Collection
Despite advocating a mass picket in support of the ‘Grunwick’ strikers, the IMG’s credentials as a mobilizer of the industrial ...
Birmingham's 'Female Society for the Relief of the Negro Slave’ .
The reports, minute books, cash books and illustrated albums of Birmingham’s ‘Female Society for the Relief of the Negro Slave’ show just how organised, determined and creative its members were in their ...
Birmingham's First Turbanned Guard
In both the workplace and the school, the denial of the right of Sikh men and boys to wear one of the fundamental symbols of their faith and identity caused Sikhs and anti-racist activists alike to campaign ...
Black Abolitionists in Birmingham
The following pages give an introduction to some of the black abolitionists who came into contact with Birmingham. They not only campaigned against slavery and for the rights of their own race, but for ...
Black People Against State Brutality
Flyers were an important medium for publicising Indian Workers Association campaigns. Many were quite unsophisticated in appearance due to the limited printing resources and technology available to the ...
Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington, a controversial African-American figure, was perhaps one of the last great abolitionists to visit Birmingham who had lived through the devastation of the American Civil War. In its ...
David Cox - 'A Gypsy Encampment'
Artists have often sentimentalised gypsies, using them as local colour in idealised rural settings. Here, however, it appears that David Cox has sketched these people from life, and they are the main ...
Drawing of a Middlemore Girl
As an Edgbastonian, John Middlemore was proudly celebrated in the pages of the Edgbastonia magazine:
‘A benevolent Edgbaston gentleman who has solved one of the difficult social problems of modern ...
'Easington'
Poster for an exhibition of two sets of photographic work about the East Durham colliery village of Easington during the 1984-1985 Miners' Strike, shown at the Triangle Photography Gallery. One set of ...
Equal Rights
The 1990s were more encouraging for the gay and lesbian community with the repeal of Section 28, the equalisation of age of consent and from 1997 the emergence of Birmingham Pride, although some of the ...
Equal Rights
The gay and lesbian community in Birmingham has often been at the forefront of campaigning on a range of political and social issues. This has been due to the size and vibrancy of the community, helped ...