Birmingham Blue Coat School Girls by Sir Benjamin Stone
The children were clothed in distinctive blue uniforms. The photographs are particularly important as the names of the children are included. These can be cross referenced with the other school records. ...
Birmingham Broadside November 1977
BIRMINGHAM’S SOLIDARITY
Birmingham Broadside November 1977 MS 1591 Paul Mackney Collection
This image reflects both traditional and emerging aspects of the local labour movement. The report of the ...
Birmingham City Council Improvement Committee Minutes
The appointment of the Improvement Committee in July 1875 marked the earliest initiative by the City Council to tackle Birmingham’s slums. The originator of the scheme was the mayor, Joseph Chamberlain, ...
Birmingham Council Minutes, 1839.
Birmingham was not officially ‘incorporated’ as a town until the year 1838. Before this date, there no was official ‘council’, but a ‘Streets and Paving Commissioners Board’ that held limited means of ...
Birmingham Trade Directory 1862
Black Abolitionists in Birmingham
The following pages give an introduction to some of the black abolitionists who came into contact with Birmingham. They not only campaigned against slavery and for the rights of their own race, but for ...
Black Dance Development Trust
From 'Les Ballets Nègres' onwards, black dance companies have had an important place on both the stage and in the community in Britain. During the 1980s many dance companies using traditional African ...
Blackheart Man: A Journey into Rasta
Poster for an exhibition of photographs by Derek Bishton, on the history, culture, music and lifestyle of Rastafarians in Africa, Jamaica and Birmingham. The poster is illustrated with a photograph of ...
Blue Coat Charity School Apprenticeship Indenture
Mary Taylor would have entered the Blue Coat School when she was 7 years old. The entrance age was increased to 9 in 1819. The School later arranged for children to be apprenticed. Mary was apprenticed ...
Board School Boys
This photograph shows school boys from a Board School in Stratford on Avon.
Board School Girls
This photograph shows school girls from a Board School in Stratford on Avon.
Bournville Continuation School Cookery Notebook
In 1926, George Cadbury Jnr wrote that, 'As employers […] we only have a right to use the labour of young people if we make sufficient provision for their proper development […] the privilege of using ...
Bournville Family, by Bill Brandt
Black and white photographic print by Bill Brandt depicting family sat in garden of a house on the Weoley Castle Estate.
Bournville Family, by Bill Brandt
This photograph was taken by a London-based photographer called Bill Brandt, forming part of an album in the Bournville Village Trust archive that remained unknown to the photographic world until the ...
Boy and girl in slum interior
Photograph of a young boy and girl in a dark interior. Taken in Bradford by Nick Hedges.
Boy bathing in slum kitchen
Photograph of a young boy in a plastic bath in a dark kitchen interior. Taken in Hackney, London by Nick Hedges.
Boy in street
Photograph of a boy standing in front of a derelict house. Taken in Balsall Heath, Birmingham by Nick Hedges.
Boy with Flag by Vanley Burke
Vanley Burke’s photographs are noted for making visible in a sensitive way black daily life in Britain. Looking straight at the camera the boy presents the viewer with a strong sense of his own identity. ...