Truth and Reconciliation
The hearing of Steve Biko. Photograph by George Hallett.
The Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act was passed in South Africa in 1995, calling for a commission to be set up to uncover ...
Truth and Reconciliation
Protest in support of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela during hearing. Photograph by George Hallett.
The Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act was passed in South Africa in 1995, calling for ...
Truth and Reconciliation
Jerry Richardson (centre) during the hearings of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. Photograph by George Hallett.
The Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act was passed in South Africa in 1995, ...
Truth and Reconciliation
Three of the mothers of the Gugulethu Seven. Photograph by George Hallett.
The Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act was passed in South Africa in 1995, calling for a commission to be ...
Truth and Reconciliation
During the hearings of The Judiciary. Photograph by George Hallett.
The Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act was passed in South Africa in 1995, calling for a commission to be set up ...
Truth and Reconciliation
Archbishop Desmond Tutu on Robben Island. Photograph by George Hallett.
The Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act was passed in South Africa in 1995, calling for a commission to be set ...
Truth and Reconciliation
Truth and Reconciliation Commission staff travelling to Robben Island by boat. Photograph by George Hallett.
The Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act was passed in South Africa in 1995, ...
Truth and Reconciliation
Audience member at the hearing of Steve Biko. Photograph by George Hallett.
The Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act was passed in South Africa in 1995, calling for a commission to be ...
Turban'd Roadmenders
This page comes from a publication called 'The War Budget', 18 January 1917, and is captioned ‘Britain’s Turban’d Roadmenders at Work’.It shows the widening of a road on the Somme front during the First ...
'Two children painting' in Sparkbrook
Evidence of children’s creativity in the past is difficult to find. Drawings, paintings and stories produced by children rarely enter the archive or the museum. Many such items were stored by parents ...
Vaisakhi Celebrations
Vaisakhi is an important festival in the Sikh religious calendar which both celebrates the Sikh new year and commemorates the founding of the Khalsa ('community of the pure') by Guru Gobind Singh in 1699. ...
Views in St Thomé and Angola by William Cadbury and Joseph Burtt
This photograph album was produced as a limited run of 50 copies by Cadbury and supported William Cadbury’s 1909 publication Labour in Portuguese West Africa. The album and book documented William Cadbury ...
Waiting with Garlands
Sikh men with garlands, Wolverhampton. Photograph by Nick Hedges for the exhibition 'I'm a Believer - Religion in the West Midlands'.
Watercolour depicting East Indian Labourers, by Jeanne Borde
In 1903, Jeanne Borde's watercolour of East Indian Labourers was used on the cover of Brandon Head’s book, The Food of Gods.1
1 Brandon Head, The Food of Gods: A Popular Account of Cocoa (1903)
Watercolour depicting Harvesting Cocoa Pods, by Jeanne Borde
Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery’s collections include artwork associated with Cadbury during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The earliest images are a group of watercolours produced ...
Watercolour of Cutting Pods, by Frank Newbould
The final group of images depicting cocoa plantations associated with Cadbury in the early twentieth century are by the artist Frank Newbould. During the 1920s and 1930s, Newbould was commissioned on ...
WEA Development Education Project - Eunice Campbell
My name is Eunice Campbell and I am 72 years old. I was born in Jamaica in the Parish of St Andrews in the district of Rockhall. I am of Caribbean origin and came to England in 1960, I even remember ...