Healthy Gay Life
A number of groups and organisations provide health information aimed at different communities. Here we see a publication by the organisation Healthy Gay Life aimed at African Carribbean gay and bisexual ...
Highlighting Housing Need
The Sparkbrook newsletter became an important space for local residents to express their thoughts about living in Sparkbrook. This edition from 1965 includes an article by a 'Sparkbrook Resident' which ...
I am a Lesbian and I am Beautiful
Issue of 'Gladrag', the newsletter of the Birmingham Gay Liberation Front, showing a very different image of a lesbian to the stereotypical representations found in the media.
“I suppose all through ...
Ida B. Wells in Birmingham
Submitted by Paul Walker of Highgate Baptist Church
Ida B Wells (1861-1930), well-known in the USA, where a great deal has been written about her contribution to civil rights, is not well known ...
Images of Arrival
As 'strangers' in a strange land, it was important for migrants to stay in touch with their families in the Caribbean and the Indian subcontinent. Airmail letters carried important news to and from home. ...
India
Originally captioned 'The Gateway of the Hooseinabad Bazaar, Lucknow. India.' From the collection of Sir Benjamin Stone.
India
'House at Hurdah. Central Provinces.' From the collection of Sir Benjamin Stone.
India
Originally captioned 'A Native Prince's Court. India.' From the collection of Sir Benjamin Stone.
India
'Thakore of Raj Kote.' From the collection of Sir Benjamin Stone.
India
Originally captioned 'Nautch Dance Party. India.' From the collection of Sir Benjamin Stone.
India
'Dancing girl and musicians, India.' From the collection of Sir Benjamin Stone.
India
'Ladock. Cashmere. India.' From the collection of Sir Benjamin Stone.
India
Originally captioned 'The Maharajah. Holkar of Indore. India'. From the collection of Sir Benjamin Stone.
Indian Cinema
Indian cinema has played an important role in the cultural life of the diaspora in Britain. Popular 'Bollywood' films, with their vibrant colours, music and melodrama provided entertainment and escapism ...
Indian Workers' Association GB [IMG]
Indian Workers’ Association GB (Birmingham Branch) MS 2141 IWA
The IWA combined Marxist politics with a concern for the plight of Asians and other immigrants in Britain and had a close, if sometimes ...
Inside Singer's Hill Synagogue Today
Photograph of Singer's Hill Today (taken by Brigitte Windsor)
This contemporary image of Singer’s Hill shows how little it has changed since the nineteenth century. The synagogue, built in 1856, ...
Isaiah Phillips
Portrait of Rabbi Isaiah Phillips, a minister of the early Birmingham Hebrew Congregation between 1785-1835. Phillips was known to have lived on Hurst Street, part of the early Jewish district of Birmingham. ...
Jacob Jacobs
Image: Jacob Jacobs. Birmingham Faces and Places, Vol 4. Local Studies and History.