First Day School - Floodgate Street.
Image: Photograph of First Day class on Floodgate Street.
Joseph Sturge's involvement helped to found the original Quaker Severn Street 'First Day Schools' in 1845. Many more schools and classes spread ...
Floodgate Street School, Birmingham by Paulo Catrica
Floodgate Street Board School opened in 1891 in the heart of what was regarded as the worst slum area in Birmingham. It accommodated 1,115 children between the ages of 5 and 13. The area around the school ...
Floor tiles from 'Longworth', Edgbaston
These floor tiles, from 24 Priory Road, were rescued from the home of John Thackray Bunce, editor of the Birmingham Daily Post from 1862 to 1898. His daughters Kate and Myra were students at the Birmingham ...
Geoff Palmer
Geoff Palmer, Research Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh: "Despite the disparity in our looks, I always say we're genetically 99% alike, all human beings ...
Girls Exercising in the School Hall, Birmingham by William Woollaston
This image shows girls exercising with Indian clubs. A growing concern for the health and welfare of school children led to physical drill and exercises being introduced into the curriculum. Such activities ...
Individual boy in uniform, Norton Reformatory
Drill was part of the regular routine for boys at Norton. The reformatory also had a cadet corp.
Jacqui MacDonald
Jacqui MacDonald, Lecturer, London University Institute of Education; Compiler and Editor of the book 'Portraits of Black Achievement: composing successful careers': "The media cult of the Black delinquent ...
Jane Suffield
Submitted by Maggie Burns, Birmingham Archives and Heritage.
In the early nineteenth century education was a privilege. The parents of upper and middle class children would pay for their education. ...
John Phillips, philanthropist (born 1836)
Between 1851 and 1871, the number of Jewish families living in Edgbaston had increased from two to a hundred - an indication of the growing prosperity of many Jews.1 John Phillips was one of a number ...
Joseph Sturge and The Severn Street School
Image: extract from 'The Story of the Severn Street and Priory First-day Schools, Our Jubilee Year' by William White (1895)
The text gives an account of Joseph Sturge's involvement in the founding ...
Lessons on the Koran
Lessons on the Koran, Wolverhampton Mosque. Photograph by Nick Hedges for the exhibition 'I'm a Believer - Religion in the West Midlands'.
Lessons on the Koran
Lessons on the Koran, Wolverhampton Mosque. Photograph by Nick Hedges for the exhibition 'I'm a Believer - Religion in the West Midlands'.
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.
Lewis Lloyd (1870-1940)
Lewis Lloyd was Honorary Secretary of the Workers’ Educational Association (WEA), Birmingham Branch. He was also a keen photographer, recording public libraries whose crucial role in adult education was ...
Log Book of Pipewood Camp School for Evacuated Girls
The 1939 Camps Act established Camp Boarding Schools. Older girls from Birmingham Senior schools were evacuated to Pipewood Camp School in Blithbury near Rugeley which opened in June 1940. The teachers ...
Lola Young
Lola Young, Professor of Cultural Studies, Middlesex University; Project Director, National Museum and Archives of Black History and Culture: "My first job was with The Gas Board! But that was because ...
Margery Fry
In 1904, Margery Fry became the warden of the women’s residence at the University of Birmingham. After war-time relief work, she became an influential penal reformer and advocate for higher education. ...
Mary Cottrell
Mary Cottrell was the first female Labour councillor for Birmingham Corporation and was a leading figure of co-operative women’s guilds, both with TASCoS and regionally. She also became the first woman ...