Homes for Birmingham: the Communist Party Plan
At the end of the Second World War public housing had become an increasingly contentious political issue. Both mainstream and fringe parties printed their own solutions for public circulation. Parties ...
I am a Lesbian and I am Beautiful
Issue of 'Gladrag', the newsletter of the Birmingham Gay Liberation Front, showing a very different image of a lesbian to the stereotypical representations found in the media.
“I suppose all through ...
Ida B. Wells in Birmingham
Submitted by Paul Walker of Highgate Baptist Church
Ida B Wells (1861-1930), well-known in the USA, where a great deal has been written about her contribution to civil rights, is not well known ...
Independent Labour Party Minutes
This is a page from the 1914-1921 minute books of the Birmingham Branch of the Independent Labour Party, which was chaired for most of the First World War by the Edgbaston artist Joseph Southall. Under ...
Indian Workers' Association GB [IMG]
Indian Workers’ Association GB (Birmingham Branch) MS 2141 IWA
The IWA combined Marxist politics with a concern for the plight of Asians and other immigrants in Britain and had a close, if sometimes ...
J.A.James
John Angell James was an important local 'congregationalist' minister based at Carrs Lane church, Birmingham. He was a longstanding member of the Birmingham Anti-Slavery Society.
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J.W.C Pennington
In 1850, Pennington visited the 'Birmingham Female Society for the Relief of British Negro Slaves'.
Dr Pennington was himself a slave until the age of twenty in the United States of America. He went ...
Jessica Huntley
Jessica Huntley, publisher, cultural and political activist: "My mother was a very positive person. She taught me that no one was better than I was. Some of our young people are doing very well. Somehow ...
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
Image: Copy of an engraving of Joseph Sturge, originally published in 'The British Workman', 1859.
Joseph Sturge was a nineteenth century antislavery campaigner living in Birmingham.
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Joseph Sturge with family and John Bright.
Image: nineteenth century photo of Joseph Sturge, taken from 'Sophia Sturge, A Memoir'(1940).
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Lesbian and Gay Centre and Switchboard
Birmingham’s Gay Village became home to a number of organisations, such as Lesbian and Gay Switchboard West Midlands. Established in 1975 it offers a telephone information and support service for people ...
Letter from Birmingham Women’s Welfare Centre to the Bishop of Birmingham
The Birmingham Women’s Welfare Centre was opened in 1927 to offer family planning advice and information to married women, with the aim of improving the health of mothers and children, and making married ...
Letter to the Reverend Thomas Swan
Accounts regarding '£50,000 noted by Parliament in 1835-36 for negro education', from the reverse of letter to Rev. Thomas Swan from W. Hawkins, March 20th 1837.
The Reverend Thomas Swan (died 1857) ...
Malcolm in Marshall Street (1965)
[Submitted by Paul Quigley]
Malcolm X was known around the world as ‘the angriest Black man in America’ and an inspirational speaker on the injustices of America’s treatment of Black people. On a ...
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 ...
Memorial celebrating Abolition of the Apprenticeship System
Memorial presented to each Sunday scholar in Birmingham who 'Joined in Celebrating the Freedom of the Negroes'.
On 1 August 1838, Joseph Sturge (1793-1859) led a march from Birmingham Town Hall to ...
Minutes of Edgbaston Archery Association AGM
The Edgbaston Archery Association (later the Edgbaston Archery and Lawn Tennis Association) was formed in 1860. Membership was carefully controlled: ‘applicants for admission to be proposed by a Member, ...