A Gun Manufacturer
Image: A Trade Card of John Sharpe (date unknown).
In the eighteenth and nineteenth century, many Birmingham gun manufacturers relied upon foreign export markets. Often, this could mean the sale of ...
A Legacy of Anti-Fasicm
Image: Civil Liberties in Britain, (extract) 1965.
Jewish activists would continue to play a significant role in Birmingham throughout the twentieth century. This is an article by Maurice Ludmer, in ...
'A Medical Board', by W.L. Sherwood
This caricature by Staff-Sergeant W.L. Sherwood presents a sardonic view of the Medical Boards, which decided the fates of many soldiers during the First World War. Consisting of a panel of both military ...
A Nineteenth Century Jewish Obituary
A Jewish Obituary, dated 22/9/75 (newspaper unknown).
A. S. Blanckensee was another significant figure of the nineteenth century Birmingham Hebrew Congregation. He was president of its council between ...
'A Patient's Nightmare', by Will Adams
This grim satirical caricature conveys something of the deeply divided emotional response experienced by soldiers who were surgical patients in the Edgbaston Southern General Hospital. Although wounded ...
A Petition to Continue the Slave Trade
Did Birmingham Profit from Slavery?
As an industrial town, Birmingham undoubtedly relied heavily on its connections to the slave trade. It was a producer of guns, chains, brassware, and a whole range ...
A Record of the Birmingham Hebrew Congregation Council
This is one of the very first entries contained in the archive of the Birmingham Hebrew Congrebation (reference: Birmingham City Archives, JA) dated 1826. It displays a list of members, who have decided ...
A Tobacco Dealer.
Image: A Tobacco, Cigar and Snuff Dealer. Trade Card (date unknown)
Illustrated industrial artifacts such as the above advert for a Birmingham tobacco dealer can often reveal underlying attitudes toward ...
A works overall documentary picture
Backing paper annotated with: 'Group in Grounds'.
This photograph forms part of an archive of photographs produced by Cadbury. Each photograph was catalogued and annotated. Some images were used in ...
Abolition of Slavery: The Birmingham Antislavery Society's Opening Statement.
This document identifies the original members of the Birmingham Anti Slavery Society and provides an ‘opening statement’ of their aims and objectives. It is noticeable here that in 1826 the society subscribed ...
Account of The Life of Jacob Jacobs (2)
Account of the Life of Jacobs Jacobs (1)
Adams Hill Children's Home, Bartley Green
190 Adams Hill was a purpose-built children's home with 8 beds. It opened in 1963. It was designed to be a small family home (also known as a scattered home) on the newly-built Bartley Green Estate.
The ...
Admission Record for Joseph Pagett, Register of Norton Reformatory
In the first half of the 19th century statistical studies seemed to show that Britain was being engulfed by a growing population of hardened young criminals. They stalked the streets, ever alert to the ...
Adventure Playgrounds
Danish landscape architects and town planners became interested in the concept of adventure playgrounds, also known as 'junk playgrounds', in the 1930s, after observing children using building sites and ...
Advertisement for Holder's Ales, 1891
The title pages from Edgbastonia carried advertisements across the top. This one is for Holder's Ales, owned by Sir John Holder of Moor Green, Moseley. The Brewery was based in Nova Scotia Street.
Advertisement for the Women's Social and Political Union
‘The Rights of Woman’, what are they?
The right her husband to obey,
The right to show forth all her life
How proud she is to be a wife!
The right, oh, noble destiny!
The daughter of a man to be.
The ...
Advertisement placed by Cadbury in The Nursery World advising parents on how to prevent children suffering from war worries
Cadbury advertised their Bourn-vita drink as a nutritious product that would help children sleep and avoid war worries. Child psychologists and the general public were very concerned about the effects ...