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 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 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 ...
The Lord Mayor's European Famine Fund
Minute Book of the Lord Mayor of Birmingham’s European Famine Fund.
The Lord Mayor’s Fund was established by William Adlington Cadbury in December 1919 to provide aid to starving women and children ...
'The Mermaid'
This is a 1916 issue of the University of Birmingham Guild of Sudents magazine; the editorial honours combat deaths of University members, including Professor Henri Chatelain (top left) who died with ...
'The Shadow', by W. L. Sherwood
This dramatic frontispiece to an issue of The "Southern" Cross (the Edgbaston military hospital magazine) is entitled simply ‘The Shadow’. It is one of a series of visionary works by Staff Sergeant W.L. ...
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. ...
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 ...
'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 ...
'War', by W.L. Sherwood
This dramatic frontispiece to the fourth issue of 'The Southern Cross' (the Edgbaston military hospital magazine) is entitled simply ‘War’. It is the third in a series of visionary works by Staff Sergeant ...
'What the MO Looks Like in a Surgical Ward', by H. Gardner
This is one of several caricatures published by wounded soldiers in the Edgbaston WW1 military hospital magazine that express deeply conflicted feelings towards the medical and administrative staff.
Illustration ...
Women Workers at Mills Munitions Factory
This photograph shows women manufacturing grenade base plugs at the Mills Munitions factory in Birmingham. Soon after the outbreak of war it had become common for ‘an engineering shop to be staffed almost ...
World War 1 recruitment poster
Poster depicting the destruction wrought by the German naval bombardment of Scarborough on December 16, 1914.
Home held a powerful symbolism during World War 1. Men went to the Front to fight in defence ...