Lantern Slide Showing Woman Wearing Rational Dress
This photograph, probably taken in London, shows a woman wearing short trousers which were worn for cycling. Because clothes like this were based upon function rather than fashion, they became known as ...
Letter concerning Property in Jamaica
Letter to William Sutherland, Blue Mountain Estate, from John Eustace, Kingston.
From a collection of legal papers and letters relating to the settlement of the Blue Mountain Estate in Jamaica, on ...
Letter from Arthur Davies to Lord Calthorpe
Lord Calthorpe's land agent, Arthur Davies, discusses potential sites to donate for the building of Birmingham's new university.
Letter from Birmingham Women’s Welfare Centre to the Bishop of Birmingham
The Birmingham Women’s Welfare Centre was opened in 1927 to offer family planning advice and information to married women, with the aim of improving the health of mothers and children, and making married ...
Letter from East Africa
Letter from Maria Albright, Pemba, 18th November 1910.
Maria Albright visited the Society of Friends’ Mission Station at Chake-Chake in East Africa in 1910-11 and sent letters home to Birmingham ...
Letter from Eliezer Edwards to Hugh Nettlefold
In November 1884, a lengthy article about the Botanical Gardens appeared in Edgbastonia magazine. This letter illuminates the background to the publication of that article.
Correspondence about the ...
Letter from G.H. Browne to Neville Chambelain, MP
Arthur Neville Chamberlain was elected as Conservative-Unionist Member of Parliament for the Birmingham constituency of Ladywood in 1918. He played a leading role in directing national housing policy ...
Letter from Hilda Chamberlain to Neville Chamberlain
This letter was written by Hilda Chamberlain to her brother, Neville, while he was living on Andros, in the Bahamas, managing the family's sisal plantation. It describes the proposed layout of newly acquired ...
Letter from Laurence Cadbury to his parents, 26 May 1916
Conscription was implemented in March 1916 as part of the Military Service Act of 1916. Prior to the Act, the British War effort was serviced by the Regular and Territorial Armies that was manned through ...
Letter from Mary Endicott Chamberlain to her Mother
In this letter Mary Endicott Chamberlain describes her attendance at the opening of Moseley Park and Pool.
Letter from Mollie Cadbury to her parents, 26 April 1915
Marian Janet Greeves (née Cadbury) enrolled with the British Red Cross in April 1915 at the age of twenty-one. Like her brother Laurence she saw service in Belgium during World War One. As a Red Cross ...
Letter from Mr Bloxham to George Edwards
Mr Bloxham, an Edgbaston resident, writes to the Estate Office of his landlord Lord Calthorpe objecting to plans to convert the Edgbaston reservoir on Hagley Road into a public park.
Letter from Neville Chamberlain to Ida and Hilda [Chamberlain]
As Minister of Health, Neville Chamberlain was instrumental in legislating for affordable housing in Britain during the 1920s and 1930s. Housing subsidies were later extended to municipal housing schemes, ...
Letter from Norman Chamberlain to Boys Club Members
Norman Chamberlain wrote this letter to members of the Boys Club he organised, to be read in the event of his death while serving in the Grenadier Guards during the First World War. He encourages them ...
Letter to Herbert Manzoni, City Engineer and Surveyor
Mr C.B. Parkes, Research Architect at the Bournville Village Trust, reports of a meeting he had with an American architect who had promised to send him the names of other architects who 'have the minds ...
Letter to the Guild of Undergraduates, University of Birmingham
This letter was written to the Guild President, Humphrey Humphreys, by solicitors acting for the American skating rink who had refused entry to a student from West Africa. The letter expresses regret ...
Letter to the Reverend Thomas Swan
Accounts regarding '£50,000 noted by Parliament in 1835-36 for negro education', from the reverse of letter to Rev. Thomas Swan from W. Hawkins, March 20th 1837.
The Reverend Thomas Swan (died 1857) ...
Locomotive and Tender built for the Pitmaston Moor Green Model Railway
Just outside the boundaries of the Edgbaston Calthorpe Estate lay Sir John Holder’s estate at Pitmaston, close to Joseph Chamberlain’s home at Highbury. The Holders were brewers – a magnificent tiled ...