Programme for a Concert in Cannon Hill Park
Musical performances were regularly organised in the parks in the nineteenth century, and formed a major part of the entertainments programme arranged by the Parks Department. As with other leisure activities ...
Ration Book
While the later 1950s would be characterised by Harold MacMillan’s assertion that ‘you’ve never had it so good’, 'Austerity Britain’ lasted well into that decade. This ration book was allocated to a resident ...
Recruitment poster for the Warwickshire Volunteer Regiment
Remedial Electrical and Bed-frame Wiring Work in Highbury's Greenhouse
This photograph shows soldiers at work in a pioneering programme at Highbury Hospital to improve the care of the wounded. During the First World War the modern concept and practice of medical rehabilitation ...
Roland Grenade
This is a section of the Belgian Army hand grenade used by Allied forces at the start of WW1; William Mills, who had settled in Edgbaston and owned engineering factories in the suburbs, accepted commissions ...
'Shaken Roots'
Poster for an exhibition of photographs of the experiences of the San people of Namibia, taken by Orde Eliason, Paul Weinberg, Jurgen Schadeber and Louis Fourie, shown at the Triangle Photography Gallery, ...
'Shallus - Let's', by Henry Laxton
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.
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Sketch for Peace, by Joseph Southall
This sketch is from a collection of material relating to the artist Joseph Southall held at the Birmingham Museum and Art Galleries. Southall was born into a Nottingham Quaker family in 1861. On the death ...
Sketch of Tank in Calthorpe Park
In WW1 the National War Saving Committee raised funds for the war effort though the Tank Bank scheme; tanks were exhibited in cities to promote and sell war bonds by public subscription; Birmingham was ...
St John Ambulance Armband
This St John Ambulance armband dates from the WW1 period when the Order of St John and the British Red Cross Society first came together to support the Armed Forces Medical Services; in November 1914 ...
'Sympathiser'
This is one of several caricatures published by wounded soldiers in the Edgbaston WW1 military hospital magazine that express deeply conflicted feelings towards their carers.
Illustration from The ...
'The "Southern" Cross'
This is the cover of the first issue of The "Southern" Cross, the magazine of the First World War military hospital based on the University campus at Edgbaston. In his Foreword, Lt-Colonel Marsh (Hospital ...
The 1st Southern General Military Hospital, Edgbaston
This photograph shows an outdoor performance presented by the Birmingham Athletic Club (BAC) in an open-air ward at the 1st Southern General Hospital at Edgbaston. The Club was directed principally as ...
The 1st Southern General Military Hospital, Edgbaston
This photograph shows VAD nursing staff with WW1 wounded soldiers in the Great Hall main ward (Aston Webb building) of Southern General military hospital on the Edgbaston campus.
The 1st Southern General Military Hospital, Edgbaston
WW1 wounded soldiers from Autralia and Scotland join other Allied patients to pose with VAD nurses in the grounds of the Edgbaston military hospital.
The 1st Southern General Military Hospital, Edgbaston
This photograph shows wounded WW1 soldiers wearing their 'convalescent blues' in Chancellor's Court by the Chamberlain clock tower on Victory Celebration Day at the 1st Southern General military hospital, ...
The 1st Southern General Military Hospital, Edgbaston
This is a formal group photograph of the senior Army Doctor medical staff of the 1st Southern General military hospital, Edgbaston; Chief Administator Lt-Col Marsh is seated in the centre.
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 ...