The Co-ordinating Committee Against Racial Discrimination
The Co-ordinating Committee Against Racial Discrimination (CCARD) was set up in 1961 by Jagmohan Joshi and Maurice Ludmer a sports journalist who was also the founding editor of the anti-racist magazine ...
The Indian Mutiny
This advertisement for 'The Indian Mutiny'- a comedy by George Daventry- was performed at the Prince of Wales Theatre in Birmingham in April 1894. The title refers to the Indian rebellion of 1857 or first ...
The Nautch Girl
Britain's encounters during the period of colonial expansion led to a proliferation of ideas about, and representations of, 'the East.' The attitudes of the colonial administration towards its 'subjects' ...
The Saltley News
The Saltley News was produced by Birmingham Community Development Project- a government initiative aimed at addressing social deprivation in a number of British cities. The first issue of the Saltley ...
Trinidad
'Woman from Calcutta', from the album 'Types of Races of Mankind', 1870s, from the collection of Sir Benjamin Stone.
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 ...
Waiting with Garlands
Sikh men with garlands, Wolverhampton. Photograph by Nick Hedges for the exhibition 'I'm a Believer - Religion in the West Midlands'.
Yagna
Member of the Sahana Dance Troupe assists Chandrakant Bhatt (Priest) with Yagna (fire ceremony) at Kali Puja, during the Hindu festival of Diwali, at the Shree Hindu Community Centre, Tyseley, Birmingham. ...
Yagna
Member of the Sahana Dance Troupe assists Chandrakant Bhatt (Priest) with Yagna (fire ceremony) at Kali Puja, during the Hindu festival of Diwali, at the Shree Hindu Community Centre, Tyseley, Birmingham. ...
Yagna
Chandrakant Bhatt (Priest) and Yagna (fire ceremony) at Kali Puja, during the Hindu festival of Diwali, at the Shree Hindu Community Centre, Tyseley, Birmingham.
Photograph by Sangeeta Redgrave, 26 ...