‘Our Alf’s a Postman Now’
‘Sparkbrook is our home’
The positioning of the children in this image means that they look down at the viewer from the height of an adult. It is a powerful statement of ownership: Sparkbrook belongs to them. Their bodies all ...
‘Wounded Soldiers at a Concert', Southern Hospital
This postcard shows a montage of scenes of wounded soldiers attending outdoor music entertainments at the Southern General military hospital, Edgbaston, including an inset of a boy dressed in a soldier's ...
20th Century Black Performance
As migrants from South Asia and the Caribbean arrived after the Second World War a dramatic change took effect in the direction of black performance in Britain. It was during this century that black people, ...
A Boy and a Catch of Fish
This photograph shows a boy and a catch of fish, with the fishing rod and basket beside a tree.
A Government School in Wadi Halfa
This photograph shows advanced scholars and teachers at a Government School in Wadi Halfa.
A Legacy of Anti-Fasicm
Image: Civil Liberties in Britain, (extract) 1965.
Jewish activists would continue to play a significant role in Birmingham throughout the twentieth century. This is an article by Maurice Ludmer, in ...
'A Medical Board', by W.L. Sherwood
This caricature by Staff-Sergeant W.L. Sherwood presents a sardonic view of the Medical Boards, which decided the fates of many soldiers during the First World War. Consisting of a panel of both military ...
'A Patient's Nightmare', by Will Adams
This grim satirical caricature conveys something of the deeply divided emotional response experienced by soldiers who were surgical patients in the Edgbaston Southern General Hospital. Although wounded ...
A works overall documentary picture
Backing paper annotated with: 'Group in Grounds'.
This photograph forms part of an archive of photographs produced by Cadbury. Each photograph was catalogued and annotated. Some images were used in ...
Abolition of Slavery: The Birmingham Antislavery Society's Opening Statement.
This document identifies the original members of the Birmingham Anti Slavery Society and provides an ‘opening statement’ of their aims and objectives. It is noticeable here that in 1826 the society subscribed ...
Adams Hill Children's Home, Bartley Green
190 Adams Hill was a purpose-built children's home with 8 beds. It opened in 1963. It was designed to be a small family home (also known as a scattered home) on the newly-built Bartley Green Estate.
The ...
Adventure Playgrounds
Danish landscape architects and town planners became interested in the concept of adventure playgrounds, also known as 'junk playgrounds', in the 1930s, after observing children using building sites and ...
Advertisement for the Women's Social and Political Union
‘The Rights of Woman’, what are they?
The right her husband to obey,
The right to show forth all her life
How proud she is to be a wife!
The right, oh, noble destiny!
The daughter of a man to be.
The ...
Advertisement placed by Cadbury in The Nursery World advising parents on how to prevent children suffering from war worries
Cadbury advertised their Bourn-vita drink as a nutritious product that would help children sleep and avoid war worries. Child psychologists and the general public were very concerned about the effects ...
Advertisements in Edgbastonia Magazine
This page from Edgbastonia offers clothing from head to toe: milliners Emilie Maison Francaise, ladies tailor Robert Speerli and Hodges bootmakers.
Aerial View of Allen's Cross, Northfield
W. Edwards Ltd built the Allen’s Cross estate for Birmingham Corporation in the early 1930s. This photograph was commissioned from Midland Air Services and it shows the brand new estate as an island in ...
Alma Terrace, Highgate
Despite massive municipal building schemes of the inter-war years, the housing crisis was more pressing in Birmingham in 1945 than 1918. Recent housing surveys revealed an unacceptable 50,000 properties ...