Women Workers at Mills Munitions Factory
This photograph shows women manufacturing grenade base plugs at the Mills Munitions factory in Birmingham. Soon after the outbreak of war it had become common for ‘an engineering shop to be staffed almost ...
'Electric Treatment' in the Dining Room Ward at Highbury Hospital
In this photograph wounded soldiers are undergoing ‘electric treatment’ in the Auxiliary Hospital at Highbury, which specialised in orthopaedics as did Birmingham No.2 War Hospital at Hollymoor. Rubery ...
Highbury Voluntary Aid Detachments Hospital
This photograph shows an outdoor ward at Highbury Hospital in the Birmingham suburb of Moseley staffed by Voluntary Aid Detachments (VAD) nurses. Nationally, over 3,000 Auxiliary hospitals attached to ...
Birmingham War Hospital Committee Minutes
These minutes record the management of the two Birmingham War Hospitals at Rubery Hill and Hollymoor between 1916 and 1922. During 1914 it became clear that many more beds would be needed than the existing ...
Independent Labour Party Minutes
This is a page from the 1914-1921 minute books of the Birmingham Branch of the Independent Labour Party, which was chaired for most of the First World War by the Edgbaston artist Joseph Southall. Under ...
Boer War Memorial, Cannon Hill Park
This postcard shows the unveiling of the memorial to servicemen from Birmingham killed in the Boer War conflicts in South Africa around the beginning of the twentieth century. The memorial was sculpted ...
News Article on 'Suicide in Cannon Hill Park'
There are a surprisingly large number of references in the Birmingham Daily Post between 1857 and 1900 to suicide or attempted suicide in Calthorpe and Cannon Hill parks. This evidence gives an insight ...
Children wearing satchels
Photographs by Lisel Haas
The photographer Lisel Haas (1898-1989) was born in Germany. She was a Jewish refugee who fled Nazi Germany. She initially applied to the USA for asylum but was turned down and came to Birmingham in 1938. ...
Young girl playing with yo-yo
Young girl playing with toys
Young girl on fairground ride
Two young girls with grandmother
Group of children playing outside