The 1st Southern General Military Hospital, Edgbaston
This photograph shows WW1 soldiers in ‘convalescent blue’ uniforms with overflow accommodation tents in front of the Aston Webb building in the grounds of the 1st Southern General military hospital, Edgbaston.
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The 1st Southern General Military Hospital, Edgbaston
This postcard shows VAD nurses in the grounds of their accommodation at University House, Edgbaston, which had been the student women's hostel.
The 1st Southern General Military Hospital, Edgbaston
This photograph shows nurses on the Edgbaston site of the 1st Southern General Hospital treating wounded soldiers in an open-air ward. From the outset of the war Robert Saundby (a professor of Medicine ...
'The End 1916', by W.L. Sherwood
This dramatic frontispiece to an issue of 'The Southern Cross' (the Edgbaston military hospital magazine) is entitled simply ‘The End 1916’. It is one of a series of visionary works by Staff Sergeant ...
'The Ghosts of the Slain', illustrated by Joseph Southall
This antiwar pamphlet with illustrations by Joseph Southall was written by Robert Leonard Outhwaite, a farmer and one-time Liberal MP who became a fellow member of the Independent Labour Party. Whilst ...
The Lord Mayor's European Famine Fund
Minute Book of the Lord Mayor of Birmingham’s European Famine Fund.
The Lord Mayor’s Fund was established by William Adlington Cadbury in December 1919 to provide aid to starving women and children ...
'The Mermaid'
This is a 1916 issue of the University of Birmingham Guild of Sudents magazine; the editorial honours combat deaths of University members, including Professor Henri Chatelain (top left) who died with ...
'The Shadow', by W. L. Sherwood
This dramatic frontispiece to an issue of The "Southern" Cross (the Edgbaston military hospital magazine) is entitled simply ‘The Shadow’. It is one of a series of visionary works by Staff Sergeant W.L. ...
Trenches at Calthorpe Park
This photograph is one of several images taken of trenches dug in Birmingham’s Parks as part of Civil Defence preparations made by the city authorities during the Munich crisis of 1938. Although the outbreak ...
Turban'd Roadmenders
This page comes from a publication called 'The War Budget', 18 January 1917, and is captioned ‘Britain’s Turban’d Roadmenders at Work’.It shows the widening of a road on the Somme front during the First ...
'Two Faces of War' and 'Nicaragua'
Poster for two photographic exhibitions shown at the Triangle Photography Gallery 4 February-1 March 1986. These consist of 'Two Faces of War' - an exhibition of photographs of Central America by John ...
University of Birmingham Council Minutes
At this Special Meeting of the University of Birmingham Council on 11 August 1914 action was agreed to immediately implement previously agreed directives to hand over the university buildings on the Edgbaston ...
University of Birmingham Great Hall as a Military Hospital Ward
The story of the 1st Southern General Hospital in Edgbaston starts with the work of Lord Haldane, whose reforms as Minister of War between 1905 and 1912 included the creation of the Territorial Army. ...
Viennese girls with Elizabeth and George Cadbury in the garden of their home
On 29 October 1920 18 girls from Vienna arrived in Bournville where they lived with local families for a year. They were all between 8 and 12 years of age and lived in Bournville until 2 September 1921 ...
'Visiting Day at Dudley Road Section', by Will Adams
This is one of several caricatures published by wounded soldiers in the Edgbaston WW1 military hospital magazine that express deeply conflicted feelings towards their visitors.
Illustration from The ...
War Munitions Volunteer Badge
This badge was in use from 1916 and was assigned to skilled men not already involved in other vital war work; they were issued by the Ministry of Munitions for employees of official armaments companies ...
'War', by W.L. Sherwood
This dramatic frontispiece to the fourth issue of 'The Southern Cross' (the Edgbaston military hospital magazine) is entitled simply ‘War’. It is the third in a series of visionary works by Staff Sergeant ...
'What the MO Looks Like in a Surgical Ward', by H. Gardner
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.
Illustration ...