Tunisia
Originally captioned 'The Great Gate leading into the Arab Town. Tunis.' From the collection of Sir Benjamin Stone.
Tunisia
'The Square at the Gate entrance to Old Town, Tunis.' From the collection of Sir Benjamin Stone.
Tunisia
'Street, Tunis.' From the collection of Sir Benjamin Stone.
Two boys on swings in playground by Nick Hedges
'Two children painting' in Sparkbrook
Evidence of children’s creativity in the past is difficult to find. Drawings, paintings and stories produced by children rarely enter the archive or the museum. Many such items were stored by parents ...
Two girls in a doorway in A B Row by W. Archer Clark
A B Row was so-called because it separated the ancient parishes of Aston and Birmingham.
Two girls in the interior of a caravan by Rob Moore
Two girls, Notting Hill, London by Nick Hedges
Hedges tried to show a positive, as well as negative, side of homelessness. These girls are photographed in their one room flat. They are smiling and the room is homely and inviting. However, their home ...
Two women with children in the street
Back-to-back and Tunnel-back Slum properties, Hockley, Birmingham.
Two young girls with grandmother
University of Birmingham Council Minutes
At this Special Meeting of the University of Birmingham Council on 11 August 1914 action was agreed to immediately implement previously agreed directives to hand over the university buildings on the Edgbaston ...
University of Birmingham Great Hall as a Military Hospital Ward
The story of the 1st Southern General Hospital in Edgbaston starts with the work of Lord Haldane, whose reforms as Minister of War between 1905 and 1912 included the creation of the Territorial Army. ...
Vaisakhi Celebrations
Vaisakhi is an important festival in the Sikh religious calendar which both celebrates the Sikh new year and commemorates the founding of the Khalsa ('community of the pure') by Guru Gobind Singh in 1699. ...
Viennese girls with Elizabeth and George Cadbury in the garden of their home
On 29 October 1920 18 girls from Vienna arrived in Bournville where they lived with local families for a year. They were all between 8 and 12 years of age and lived in Bournville until 2 September 1921 ...
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 ...
Views in St Thomé and Angola by William Cadbury and Joseph Burtt
This photograph album was produced as a limited run of 50 copies by Cadbury and supported William Cadbury’s 1909 publication Labour in Portuguese West Africa. The album and book documented William Cadbury ...
'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.
Illustration from The ...
War Munitions Volunteer Badge
This badge was in use from 1916 and was assigned to skilled men not already involved in other vital war work; they were issued by the Ministry of Munitions for employees of official armaments companies ...