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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 ...

Shoemaking, Norton Reformatory Annual Report

Children were educated and trained in various trades, including shoemaking, gardening, tailoring and farming.

Selly Oak Nursery, 26 Tiverton Road

Selly Oak Nursery opened in a new building in 1921. Fresh air and allowing children to move freely between inside and outside was a key feature of the Nursery’s design. The classroom is spacious and ...

Selly Oak Nursery temporary accommodation

Play was central to the child’s kindergarten experience. The sandpit, the wooden horse, and the different creative activities on each table all encouraged play. Froebel believed that play was educational ...

School Photographs Floodgate Street Infants

This photograph was not fixed in the album. It was produced and published to be sold locally by a professional photographer. It is a very carefully posed image. The children have been organised to give ...

School Photographs Floodgate Street Infants

The album consists of fourteen photographs. There are images of children on an outing to the countryside, of children dressing up and of children standing next to some plants with the caption, ‘Beans ...

School Board Classes for Deaf Children

Group photographs of school children were commonplace in the late 19th century. With the establishment of mass schooling after the 1870 Education Act local School Boards organised classes for children ...

Rosemary, Irene and Michael in the garden at St. Loes by William Smedley Aston

William Smedley-Aston (1868-1941) was an Arts and Crafts photographer. His wife Irene is shown here with two of their children, Michael and Rosemary. The couple were friends with other members of the ...

Report from The Birmingham Post

John Daintree was prosecuted in Erdington Magistrates Court for cruelty towards a 13 year old climbing boy called John Salisbury. John had to strip naked to get into a narrow chimney and then got stuck. ...

Progress Book of Amy Crutchley, Institution for the Blind, Birmingham

Amy Crutchley was at Birmingham Institution for the Blind in the early 1900s. The Institution kept detailed records for each child from admission to leaving. Each child had an individual progress book. ...

Punishment Book, Institution for the Blind, Birmingham

Alice Cumbley was at Birmingham Institution for the Blind in the early 1900s. The Institution kept detailed records for each child from admission to leaving. No concessions were made due to disability. ...

Register of Children, Marston Green Cottage Homes

For the Victorians orphans invited both pity and fear. They were pitied because they lacked family, but were feared because of what they might become as adults if they did not receive care, discipline ...

Recruitment poster for the Warwickshire Volunteer Regiment

Poster advertising defence bonds to raise money for the war effort

Poster advertising an event to raise money for Belgian refugees in Birmingham

Portraits of Individual 'Little Bricklayers' from A Souvenir of the Children’s Bricklaying Ceremony, arranged and carried out under the direction the direction of Mrs J. E. Player. July 29th, 1913.

The Children’s Hospital Brick League was established in 1913. The League’s objective was to raise money for building a new Children’s Hospital at Ladywood. It organised the ‘Scheme for Brick Laying Ceremony’ ...

Portrait of a Girl by George Hallett

Hallett (b. 1942) is a South African photographer. Whilst living in exile in Britain in 1971 he was commissioned by the Times Educational Supplement to take a series of photographs in Handsworth. Many ...

Highbury Park Sketch Plan

This sketch plan of the grounds and gardens of Highbury Hall was drawn by Hilda Chamberlain in 1894. It accompanied a letter written to her brother, Neville, who was managing the short-lived and ultimately ...