The Chinese in Birmingham
Photograph by Terry Lo.
The Chinese in Birmingham
Photograph by Terry Lo.
The Chinese in Birmingham
Photograph by Terry Lo.
The Chinese in Birmingham
Photograph by Terry Lo.
The Chinese in Birmingham
Photograph by Terry Lo.
The Co-ordinating Committee Against Racial Discrimination
The Co-ordinating Committee Against Racial Discrimination (CCARD) was set up in 1961 by Jagmohan Joshi and Maurice Ludmer a sports journalist who was also the founding editor of the anti-racist magazine ...
The Corner Shop, Black Country - Gallery 1
The Corner Shop is a social history project charting the changing nature of small shops in the Black Country over the past 60 years.
In addition to this presence on the Internet by the Connecting ...
The Corner Shop, Black Country - Gallery 2
For over many decades now small shops have been adapting to changing circumstances to survive and to meet the needs of new communities.
The inspiration behind this shop front collection of images ...
The Corner Shop, Black Country - Gallery 3
The Corner Shop site-specific promenade theatre performance was based on new research conducted with Black Country shopkeepers, their families and customers undertaken by community members. In autumn ...
'The Froggery'
A Trade Directory of Birmingham (1775).
This entry in Birmingham’s very first 'Trade Directory' (1775) tells us about some of the early occupations being developed in a place once known as the ‘froggery’. ...
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 Great Western Arcade
Image: Old and New Birmingham by R.K Dent, 1880. Birmingham Central Library, Local Studies and History.
The Indian Mutiny
This advertisement for 'The Indian Mutiny'- a comedy by George Daventry- was performed at the Prince of Wales Theatre in Birmingham in April 1894. The title refers to the Indian rebellion of 1857 or first ...
The Jester
Extract from oral history interview:
“I am going to jump back again to, you know, ’76, ’78. I was a lesbian in Birmingham and nationally there was a ban on the sale, the selling of gay and lesbian ...
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 Montserrat Company
Image: an advertisement of the Montserrat Lime Juice Company.
Joseph Sturge was a nineteenth century antislavery campaigner living in Birmingham. Near the end of his life, he created a free labour ...
The Nautch Girl
Britain's encounters during the period of colonial expansion led to a proliferation of ideas about, and representations of, 'the East.' The attitudes of the colonial administration towards its 'subjects' ...