Memorial celebrating Abolition of the Apprenticeship System
Memorial presented to each Sunday scholar in Birmingham who 'Joined in Celebrating the Freedom of the Negroes'.
On 1 August 1838, Joseph Sturge (1793-1859) led a march from Birmingham Town Hall to ...
Mica Paris
Mica Paris, photographed in Birmingham, 1987. From the collection "Muzik Kinda Sweet" by Pogus Caesar/OOM Gallery Archive.
Michael Hastings
Michael Hastings, Head of Public Affairs, BBC: "I think the emphasis on black history, black identity, is overplayed. The priority is to realise that certain educational and personal skills are far more ...
Michael Rose: Jamaican Vocalist
Michael Rose, original lead singer with Black Uhuru. The group formed in 1974 and consisted of Duckie Simpson and Garth Dennis. The group was signed to Island Records and produced by Sly and Robbie.
Photographed ...
Montage
My board reflects the many Cultural Obstacles we are faced with now in this day and age. Our roots, our environment, our culture and our heritage.
The bottom of the board is about me and my surroundings, ...
Moses Roper
Moses Roper appears to have been in Birmingham around 1835. 'A Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper from American Slavery' was published the same year, giving information about his life ...
Most Reverend and Right Honourable Dr John Sentamu, Archbishop of York
Interviewed when Bishop of Stepney: "I think the greatest mistake people make... is to have a half-hearted attitude. An African proverb is: 'We are people through other people: I am because I belong to ...
Mothers Day Service
Mothers Day Service, New Testament Church of God, Wolverhampton. Photograph by Nick Hedges for the exhibition 'I'm a Believer - Religion in the West Midlands'.
Neneh Cherry
Neneh Cherry, photographed at Island Records 25th Anniversary, Pinewood Studios, 1987. From the collection "Muzik Kinda Sweet" by Pogus Caesar/OOM Gallery Archive.
New Testament Church of God Choir
Choir, New Testament Church of God, Wolverhampton. Photograph by Nick Hedges for the exhibition 'I'm a Believer - Religion in the West Midlands'.
News article, 'It's live and let live in Britain's Harlem'
Balsall Heath, a Home for Immigrants1
The Daily Herald’s article ‘It’s live and let live in Britain’s Harlem’ is included in a volume about ‘ethnic communities’ which was assembled by Birmingham Central ...
Patrick Berry
Patrick Berry, Group Managing Director, Choice FM Radio: "Education is like weight training: if you want your body to be a certain shape, you lift weights and you become strong. Education does this for ...
Paul Robeson
In 1949 Birmingham was host to two performances by American actor, singer and activist, Paul Robeson. Both concerts took place at Birmingham Town Hall and one was organised in conjunction with the Birmingham ...
Peter Stanford, 'From Bondage To Liberty' [1]
Photograph of a class from Nelson Street School
The photograph comes from an album to commemorate the laying of the foundation stone of Birmingham Children’s Hospital and contains photographs of individual children and school groups who contributed ...
Plymouth, Montserrat.
Image: Plymouth in the late nineteenth century.
Joseph Sturge was a nineteenth century antislavery campaigner living in Birmingham. Near the end of his life, he created a free labour plantation on ...
Poetic performance- Benjamin Zephaniah
Britain's most celebrated oral/dub poet Benjamin Zephaniah was born in Birmingham and grew up in Handsworth during the 1970s. Zephaniah popularised the poetic form of dub poetry which originates from ...
Pogus Caesar
Pogus Caesar, Director of the media company Windrush Productions; and photographer: "Keep your third eye open and you will see a light, you will gain strength from its glow, and you will keep shining. ...