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 ...
India
Originally captioned 'Nautch Dance Party. India.' From the collection of Sir Benjamin Stone.
India
'Dancing girl and musicians, India.' From the collection of Sir Benjamin Stone.
Jacqui MacDonald
Jacqui MacDonald, Lecturer, London University Institute of Education; Compiler and Editor of the book 'Portraits of Black Achievement: composing successful careers': "The media cult of the Black delinquent ...
Janet Campbell
Janet Campbell, Director of Human Resources Europe, SCO Ltd: "I always say I'm English because being 'British' is something altogether different. I'm 37 and I was born here. How can I feel British when ...
Japan
Originally captioned 'Making Tea, Japan.' From the collection of Sir Benjamin Stone.
Japan
'Wintertime, Japan.' From the collection of Sir Benjamin Stone.
Japan
Originally captioned 'Japanese Girl in Wet Weather.' From the collection of Sir Benjamin Stone.
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 ...
Kali Puja
The Sahana Dance Troupe from India at Kali Puja (in Prayer), during the Hindu festival of Diwali, at the Shree Hindu Community Centre, Tyseley, Birmingham.
Photograph by Sangeeta Redgrave, 26 October ...
Ladies Bicycle, from the Crescent Cycles Catalogue
Bicycles were being actively marketed to women by 1900, as this catalogue entry shows.
Lakshmi Puja
Lakshmi Puja, during the Hindu festival of Diwali, at the Shree Hindu Community Centre, Tyseley, Birmingham.
Photograph by Sangeeta Redgrave, 26 October 2000.
Lantern Slide of Women Wearing Rational Dress
This photograph, probably taken in London, shows women wearing short trousers which were worn for cycling. Because clothes like this were based upon function rather than fashion, they became known as ...
Lantern Slide Showing Woman Wearing Rational Dress
This photograph, probably taken in London, shows a woman wearing short trousers which were worn for cycling. Because clothes like this were based upon function rather than fashion, they became known as ...
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 from East Africa
Letter from Maria Albright, Pemba, 18th November 1910.
Maria Albright visited the Society of Friends’ Mission Station at Chake-Chake in East Africa in 1910-11 and sent letters home to Birmingham ...
Letter from Mollie Cadbury to her parents, 26 April 1915
Marian Janet Greeves (née Cadbury) enrolled with the British Red Cross in April 1915 at the age of twenty-one. Like her brother Laurence she saw service in Belgium during World War One. As a Red Cross ...
Lok Mela Festival
Family group at the festival, Centenary Square, Birmingham. Photograph by Ghazala Saddique, October 2000.