'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 ...
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.
African Barkcloth Beater
This barkcloth beater, made from wood and horn, was collected in Africa by the traveller and diarist Helen Caddick, who lived in York Road, Edgbaston.
African Roscius
This is a playbill for a production of Othello, performed at the Theatre Royal, Birmingham in 1846. The production starred renowned black actor Ira Aldridge, who was known as 'African Roscius.'
Aldridge ...
Al Anderson
Al Anderson, guitarist with Bob Marley & The Wailers.
Photographed at The Tower Ballroom, Birmingham, 1986. From the collection "Muzik Kinda Sweet" by Pogus Caesar/OOM Gallery Archive.
Alton Ellis
Alton Ellis, photographed in Peckham, London, 1985. From the collection "Muzik Kinda Sweet" by Pogus Caesar/OOM Gallery Archive.
Amazulu
Amazulu, photographed in Birmingham, 1986. From the collection "Muzik Kinda Sweet" by Pogus Caesar/OOM Gallery Archive.
And Why Not
And Why Not, photographed at the Irish Centre, Birmingham, 1990. From the collection "Muzik Kinda Sweet" by Pogus Caesar/OOM Gallery Archive.
Andy Hamilton and his band
Many musicians and artists came to Britain during the period of post-war migration in the twentieth century. With them they brought artistic forms from their countries of origin such as Trinidadian calypsos, ...
Andy Hamilton and Ralf DeCambre
Andy Hamilton (saxophinist) and Ralf DeCambre (guitarist), photographed in Birmingham, 1987. From the collection "Muzik Kinda Sweet" by Pogus Caesar/OOM Gallery Archive.
Andy Hamilton was born in Port ...
Ann Street School, Birmingham
Oil painting by Alfred H. Green (c.1822-?).
Past schooling is brought vibrantly to life in this painting. We can see infants sewing, reading, listening, watching, falling asleep, crying, putting on ...
Apache Indian
Apache Indian, at Mobo Unsung, Birmingham Academy, 24 September 2002. From the collection "Muzik Kinda Sweet" by Pogus Caesar/OOM Gallery Archive.
Apprenticeship agreement between Thomas Stirling of the parish of St. Giles in the Fields, London, and George Hardy, chimney sweep, of St. Marylebone
Climbing boys were sent up chimneys to clean them. Although there were fewer of them than other child workers their sufferings captured the imagination of campaigners against child labour from the late ...
Arrow and Rita Marley
Arrow and Rita Marley (wife of reggae legend Bob Marley) photographed at the Commonwealth Institute, London, 1987. From the collection "Muzik Kinda Sweet" by Pogus Caesar/OOM Gallery Archive.
Arts and Charities
Image: Birmingham Jewish Arts Society scrapbook, 1924-1931.
Jewish interest in drama, literature and the Arts would countinue in many differnt theatrical performances in Birmingham across the early ...
Asian Music Circle
Like African forms of dance, South Asian dance has a long history in Britain. As early as 1838, Indian dancers- the Bayadères- performed in Britain at the Adelphi Theatre in London. From the Second World ...
Augustus Pablo: Jamaican Producer
Born Henry Swaby in St Andrew, Jamaica in 1953, he was better known as Augustus Pablo, an influential keyboard player and producer of reggae/dub music. Pablo was the first to popularize the use of the ...
Autobiography of Richard Bennett, chimney sweep, written for the Birmingham Association for the Suppression of Climbing Boys
In the 1830s John Cadbury led a campaign in Birmingham against the employment of climbing boys. He called a meeting of all the sweeps in the town and tried to convince them to use machines instead. He ...