Anti-Apartheid Demonstration Flyer
Flyer for an Anti-Apartheid demonstration held on Saturday March 12th, nd. [1980s]. From the records of the Birmingham Anti-Apartheid Organisation
Anti-Jewish Conversion Society
A Jewish form of resistance to organisations such as the Birmingham auxillary of the 'Society for Promoting Christianity Amoung the Jews' was to engage with social debate. The mission of this society ...
Antislavery and the Birmingham Quaker 'Friends Book Society',
In order for the Birmingham Antislavery Society to be effective in campaigning for social justice, it was vital that they had a network system that provided them with current knowledge about events around ...
Antislavery Lecture by Rev Thomas Swan (extract).
Lectures, speeches, public addresses and sermons were a vitally important way of spreading the word about slavery to the Birmingham public. The extract above shows a dramatic example of how Rev. Thomas ...
Apache Indian
Apache Indian, at Mobo Unsung, Birmingham Academy, 24 September 2002. From the collection "Muzik Kinda Sweet" by Pogus Caesar/OOM Gallery Archive.
Appledore, Serpentine Road, Selly Oak
The building at Serpentine Road has had a variety of uses over the years. Its first mention in the Birmingham City Council minutes is as a students’ hostel. It became a home for elderly people in 1949 ...
Application Book of Middlemore Homes, 1903-1914 giving the reasons Henry was admitted
Henry is case number 2576. He was described as a ‘Healthy looking boy very ragged, Street Arab type’. Street Arab was a common derogatory term for poor children who roamed the streets.
Application of Alice Cumbley, Institution for the Blind, Birmingham
Alice Cumbley was at Birmingham Institution for the Blind in the early 1900s. The Institution kept detailed records for each child from admission to leaving.
Apprenticeship agreement between Thomas Stirling of the parish of St. Giles in the Fields, London, and George Hardy, chimney sweep, of St. Marylebone
Climbing boys were sent up chimneys to clean them. Although there were fewer of them than other child workers their sufferings captured the imagination of campaigners against child labour from the late ...
Arrow and Rita Marley
Arrow and Rita Marley (wife of reggae legend Bob Marley) photographed at the Commonwealth Institute, London, 1987. From the collection "Muzik Kinda Sweet" by Pogus Caesar/OOM Gallery Archive.
Arthur and Rachel Albright with their eight children
Beaumont Albright was born on 21 August 1861 at the family home in Edgbaston. He was the youngest of eight children of Quakers Arthur Albright and his wife Rachel.
Beaumont is sitting on a small stool ...
Arthur O'Neill (1819-1896)
Submitted by Stephen Roberts
Arthur O'Neill lived in Birmingham from 1840 until his death in 1896. He made his mark as a Chartist, a peace lecturer and a Baptist minister. O'Neill was of Irish descent ...
Arts and Charities
Image: Birmingham Jewish Arts Society scrapbook, 1924-1931.
Jewish interest in drama, literature and the Arts would countinue in many differnt theatrical performances in Birmingham across the early ...
Arts and Charities
Image: Jenny Lind
Historical sources show that in the Birmingham Jewish community, drama, literature, music and the arts have always been integral. As well as an important form of self expression, ...
Asian Music Circle
Like African forms of dance, South Asian dance has a long history in Britain. As early as 1838, Indian dancers- the Bayadères- performed in Britain at the Adelphi Theatre in London. From the Second World ...
Asian Resource Centre
The Asian Resource Centre was established in 1976 at Villa Road in Handsworth. It was founded on the belief that it was "necessary and desirable for Asian residents in Handsworth to have their own autonomous ...
Aston Children's Home
This children's home was initially in a building known as Jubilee House.
Jubilee House was opened as a children’s home late in 1978 and was designed ‘to meet both the long-term and short-stay needs ...
Athelstan House (Junior Remand Home), 232 Moseley Road, Highgate
This home has had a number of different functions during its long history and a number of different names including 'the Birmingham Children's Remand Home', 'the Boys' Remand Home', 'the Junior Remand ...