Faces and Places: Henry Gunter
Henry Gunter (1920-2007)
Submitted by: Fiona Tate
Henry Gunter (1920-2007), was born in Portland, Jamaica. He studied accountancy at Commercial College there and worked in Panama and the U.S.A. ...
Mahmood Hashmi
MAHMOOD HASHMI - Critic, essayist, author, editor, playwright and educationalist
Entry submitted by Pervaiz Khan
Mahmood Hashmi is a long established name in Urdu literature with a wide range ...
Faces and Places: Horace Halliburton
Submitted by Birmingham Stories
In 1949, the Birmingham Gazette ran a series of articles highlighting an episode of social unrest that took place in the Causeway Green hostel. The disturbances apparently ...
Jane Suffield
Submitted by Maggie Burns, Birmingham Archives and Heritage.
In the early nineteenth century education was a privilege. The parents of upper and middle class children would pay for their education. ...
City of Religion: Staff Recommends
This is an additional miscellaneous resource list of materials on the ‘City of Religion’. Each item was suggested by the staff of Birmingham's Archives and Heritage Services during research seminars held ...
The Middlemore Homes Scheme: ‘Hard times for the Edwards family’
Submitted by Pete Millington.
[The following is a description of Pete Millington’s meeting with Ralph Edwards, descendant of Arthur Edwards, who as a young who was deported to Canada from Birmingham ...
Staff Recommends: 'Refugee Movements'
This is an additional miscellaneous resource list of materials on the subject of ‘migration stories’. Each item was suggested by the staff of Birmingham's Archives and Heritage Services during research ...
Staff Recommends: 'Civic Gospels: Networks for Social Change'
This is an additional miscellaneous resource list of materials on the ‘Civic Gospels’. Each item was suggested by the staff of Birmingham's Archives and Heritage Services during research seminars held ...
"My Journey to and Life in Britain"
MY JOURNEY TO AND LIFE IN BRITAIN
My name is Sarwan Singh. I came to this country in 1960. I have lived all my life in Handsworth and worked in Birmingham. I am a member and office bearer of Indian ...
"Charles Parker and The Radio Ballads"
The Radio Ballads and the Oral History Tradition
‘England, England, and there’s nowhere like it at dawn’. These words come from a working class railway driver called Jack Pickford, who was interviewed ...
Script for 'Under the Apple Tree'
Page from the script of ‘Under the Apple Tree’ made for the BBC in 1969-70 by Charles Parker using recordings made by Dilip Hiro where people talked about their experiences of marriage between black and ...
Script for 'The Colony'
Page from the script of ‘The Colony’, a film about the African Caribbean community in Handsworth, Birmingham, made for the BBC in 1964 by the film maker Philip Donnellan and Charles Parker who did the ...
Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield
Programme for a performance by Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield, 'the Black Swan' in Birmingham on June 23rd 1853. Among the songs performed by Taylor Greenfield were 'The Cradle Song', 'Home, Sweet Home,' ...
19th Century Black Performance
Black performance in Britain has a long history. As far back as the sixteenth century musicians had a presence in public life, playing at the courts of monarchs and performing as military bandsmen (Fryer ...
Banner Theatre, 'Women at Work'
Leaflet for a Banner show on womens rights.
Banner Theatre, 'Steel'
Banner Theatre Production about the steel industry.
20th Century Black Performance
As migrants from South Asia and the Caribbean arrived after the Second World War a dramatic change took effect in the direction of black performance in Britain. It was during this century that black people, ...
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 ...