Belgian Refugee Register: War Refugee Committee
The Belgian Refugee War Register is one of a series of documents associated with the Belgian War Relief Fund that was established during World War One to support the thousands of Belgian refugees who ...
Belgian refugees at Moor Green House, Moseley
Belgrave Road, Balsall Heath
Billiards at Highbury Hospital
This photograph shows WW1 wounded soldiers enjoying a game of billiards during a recreation break in the pioneering orthopaedic rehabilitation programme at Highbury Hospital (previously the residence ...
Birmingham and District War Refugees Committee, Register of Belgian refugees
During World War 1 thousands of refugees escaped from war-torn Belgium and many settled in Birmingham. The Birmingham War Refugees Committee chaired by Elizabeth Cadbury found work for adult refugees, ...
Birmingham and Moseley Society Journal
In contrast to the general movement to open up green spaces in the city to provide parks for Birmingham’s urban and suburban population during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Moseley Park ...
Birmingham and the Grunwick Dispute 1976-1978
SETTING THE SCENE
‘Grunwick’ was an industrial dispute centred on Cricklewood, north London but which had national significance. Political and campaign groups from around Britain rallied to the support ...
Birmingham Blue Coat School Boys
The Blue Coat School stood at the east end of St Philip’s churchyard. It was founded as a charity in 1723 to board and educate the children of the poor. Boys and girls were taught to read, write and do ...
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 Boys and Girls Union Report
The caption underneath this photograph of boys who attended the junior boys club organised by the Birmingham Boys and Girls Union illustrates the anxieties that many middle-class reformers had about working-class ...
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 Bus Crew Member
This photograph was taken some time after Birmingham City Transport abandoned it’s ‘colour bar’ in 1954 (see 'Transport Workers in South-West Birmingham'). Immigrants often chose to record their status ...
Birmingham Buses and the Colour Bar
Mirroring the situation in other British cities, in post-war Birmingham black people were barred from employment as conductors or drivers on buses. Although they were employed in local authority garages ...
Birmingham City Council Interviewing Sub-Committee Minutes
Using powers conferred by public health and housing legislation, the Improvement Committee had condemned and demolished whole swathes of slum housing and overseen a number of improvements made in central ...
Birmingham City Council Tenants Sub-Committee Minutes
The Tenants Sub-Committee was appointed in November 1922. It reported to the City Estates Committee, its chief function being to deal with applications for municipal housing. Estates Department officials ...
Birmingham City Transport Bus Ticket
Birmingham City Transport [BCT]: Serving Passengers and Rate Payers
The bus ticket was purchased by a worker at Longbridge. It has been selected to represent BCT’s obligation to run services profitably. ...
Birmingham City Transport Report
Recruitment in Eire 1951
This report reflects a major aspect of Birmingham’s dependence on immigrant labour in the 1950s and beyond.1 Key sectors became associated with the Irish workforce, including ...
Birmingham Infants’ Health Society and School of Mother-craft, 6th Annual Report
Theories about child development in 19th century science, medicine and anthropology led to the emergence of the idea of ‘the normal child’. Children were increasingly observed, measured, tested and individual ...