'Shallus - Let's', by Henry Laxton
This is one of several caricatures published by wounded soldiers in the Edgbaston WW1 military hospital magazine that express deeply conflicted feelings towards the medical and administrative staff.
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Single Storey Dwellings for Aged People, by Manzoni
Watercolour artist impression by Sir Herbert Manzoni, City Engineer and Surveyor, depicting layout of the kind of elderly person's maisonette-type dwelling built on new housing estates.
Sir Gilbert Barling
In 1920, Barling observed that the education of ‘workmen’ should equip them for ‘the duties of citizenship and for an effective share in the control of industry’.1 As Vice Chancellor of the University ...
Sketch for Peace, by Joseph Southall
This sketch is from a collection of material relating to the artist Joseph Southall held at the Birmingham Museum and Art Galleries. Southall was born into a Nottingham Quaker family in 1861. On the death ...
Sketch of Tank in Calthorpe Park
In WW1 the National War Saving Committee raised funds for the war effort though the Tank Bank scheme; tanks were exhibited in cities to promote and sell war bonds by public subscription; Birmingham was ...
Sketches In The Condemned Localities
Ink print accompanying an article, originally printed in 'The Graphic' newspaper, depicting inhabitants of John Street in central Birmingham.
Standard Municipal Housing Designs
Example of non-parlour class of council house, from a roll design templates in the records of Humphries & McDonald, Architects.
Study for 'The Beloved', by Rossetti
This drawing was made by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) as a study for a painting, ‘The Beloved’ (‘The Bride’), which features models of different ‘races’. The dark skin of the boy is contrasted with ...
'Sympathiser'
This is one of several caricatures published by wounded soldiers in the Edgbaston WW1 military hospital magazine that express deeply conflicted feelings towards their carers.
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'The Baby-House', by Millais
Etching by John Everett Millais (1829-1896).
The Victorian nursery, with its dolls and dolls' houses, provided an early training in motherhood. Millais, perhaps not insignificantly, entitled his etching ...
'The End 1916', by W.L. Sherwood
This dramatic frontispiece to an issue of 'The Southern Cross' (the Edgbaston military hospital magazine) is entitled simply ‘The End 1916’. It is one of a series of visionary works by Staff Sergeant ...
'The Ghosts of the Slain', illustrated by Joseph Southall
This antiwar pamphlet with illustrations by Joseph Southall was written by Robert Leonard Outhwaite, a farmer and one-time Liberal MP who became a fellow member of the Independent Labour Party. Whilst ...
The Junction, Kings Norton, by Frank Lockwood
Campaigning for Canals in Kings Norton
Frank Lockwood’s pencil drawing The Junction, Kings Norton shows the toll house in 1958, where the Worcester and Stratford canals join. This tranquil scene reflects ...
'The Shadow', by W. L. Sherwood
This dramatic frontispiece to an issue of The "Southern" Cross (the Edgbaston military hospital magazine) is entitled simply ‘The Shadow’. It is one of a series of visionary works by Staff Sergeant W.L. ...
The Sitting Room, by Myra Bunce
‘Mr. Bunce is an intense lover of art and artists […] notable examples of Wainwright, of his old friend Henshaw, of H. Moore, Langley, J. Collier, Aumonier, East, Donaldson, Thomas Baker, Wyllie, and ...
View of New Tower Blocks and Infrastructure, by Reginald Edgecombe
Reginald Edgecombe was a designer commissioned by the Council to produce artist’s impressions of what Birmingham might look like post-war once reconstruction was complete. A collection of his watercolour ...
'Visiting Day at Dudley Road Section', by Will Adams
This is one of several caricatures published by wounded soldiers in the Edgbaston WW1 military hospital magazine that express deeply conflicted feelings towards their visitors.
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'War', by W.L. Sherwood
This dramatic frontispiece to the fourth issue of 'The Southern Cross' (the Edgbaston military hospital magazine) is entitled simply ‘War’. It is the third in a series of visionary works by Staff Sergeant ...