The 1st Southern General Military Hospital, Edgbaston
This photograph shows an outdoor performance presented by the Birmingham Athletic Club (BAC) in an open-air ward at the 1st Southern General Hospital at Edgbaston. The Club was directed principally as ...
The 1st Southern General Military Hospital, Edgbaston
This photograph shows VAD nursing staff with WW1 wounded soldiers in the Great Hall main ward (Aston Webb building) of Southern General military hospital on the Edgbaston campus.
The 1st Southern General Military Hospital, Edgbaston
WW1 wounded soldiers from Autralia and Scotland join other Allied patients to pose with VAD nurses in the grounds of the Edgbaston military hospital.
The 1st Southern General Military Hospital, Edgbaston
This photograph shows wounded WW1 soldiers wearing their 'convalescent blues' in Chancellor's Court by the Chamberlain clock tower on Victory Celebration Day at the 1st Southern General military hospital, ...
The 1st Southern General Military Hospital, Edgbaston
This is a formal group photograph of the senior Army Doctor medical staff of the 1st Southern General military hospital, Edgbaston; Chief Administator Lt-Col Marsh is seated in the centre.
The 1st Southern General Military Hospital, Edgbaston
This photograph shows wounded WW1 soldiers in the grounds of the military hospital at Edgbaston; many Army doctors believed that being in the open air was therapeutic for the injured and sick and encouraged ...
The 1st Southern General Military Hospital, Edgbaston
This photograph shows WW1 soldiers in ‘convalescent blue’ uniforms with overflow accommodation tents in front of the Aston Webb building in the grounds of the 1st Southern General military hospital, Edgbaston.
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The 1st Southern General Military Hospital, Edgbaston
This postcard shows VAD nurses in the grounds of their accommodation at University House, Edgbaston, which had been the student women's hostel.
The 1st Southern General Military Hospital, Edgbaston
This photograph shows nurses on the Edgbaston site of the 1st Southern General Hospital treating wounded soldiers in an open-air ward. From the outset of the war Robert Saundby (a professor of Medicine ...
The Arts
Birmingham has long been associated with arts and culture. Since the 18th century the city has been home to writers, musicians and artists, and a centre for cinemas, theatres and concert halls which have ...
The Battle of Cable Street
Image taken from the 'Picture Post' (1943) of vandalism to Jewish property during the battle of Cable Street.
"The Battle of Cable Street or Cable Street Riot took place on Sunday October 4, 1936 ...
The Cave
A number of black arts centres have been founded in Britain which have provided an important space for the development and performance of black artists. Their development, primarily in the 1980s, reflected ...
The Chamberlain Family at Highbury
This photograph is from an album compiled by Mary Endicott Chamberlain, third wife of Joseph Chamberlain. The album contains a number of photographs of the grounds at Highbury Hall, and includes several ...
The Colour Bar in Legislation
From the end of the war, the effects of black migration remained a constant concern for both Conservative and Labour governments. Disturbances in Notting Hill and Nottingham in 1958, the development of ...
The Effect of Flat Dwelling on Children
Much of the new accommodation built after 1945 for the purposes of re-housing comprised increasingly taller, high-density tower blocks, many built in the five Redevelopment Areas. They also rose across ...
'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 Flying Trunk by Hans Christian Anderson (1805-1875), designed by Voitech Kubasta
Early pop-up books were created for adults rather than children. It was not until the 18th century that these techniques were applied to books designed for children. They were generally expensive and ...
'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 ...