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 ...
Mother and child window shopping
Municipal Estate, Kingstanding.
Mother and three children
Photograph of mother holding a baby with two other children in a slum interior. Taken in Balsall Heath by Nick Hedges.
Mother and two children in slum kitchen
Photograph of a mother and her two children in a slum kitchen. Taken in Balsall Heath, Birmingham by Nick Hedges.
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'.
Mr Everitt, Tram Conductor
This etching captures the quiet authority popularly expected of conductors (see 'Transport Workers in South West Birmingham'). Responsible for fare collection, passenger safety and the smooth running ...
Mr Wheeley's, Edgbaston, by Charles Barber
Many of Charles Barber’s drawings are simply labelled with their district rather than a specific location, but this farmhouse is helpfully titled Mr Wheeley’s, Edgbaston. The Wheeley family had been in ...
Mr Yim and Family
Photograph by Terry Lo.
Munitions Training at Birmingham Technical School
In addition to an application form for training men and youths in the manufacture of munitions of war, this letter includes rules for armaments classes and a timetable for the instruction of disabled ...
'My Second Sermon', by Millais
'My Second Sermon', by John Everett Millais (1829-1896), shows a girl asleep in a church with her legs dangling uncrossed. No Bible can be seen. It is one of a pair of paintings, the other being 'My First ...
Navratri
Girls holding Dandyas (for stick dancing) during the Hindu festival of Navratri, at the Shree Hindu Community Centre, Tyseley, Birmingham.
Photograph by Sangeeta Redgrave, 7 October 2000.
Navratri
Priest Chandrakant Bhatt (Tyseley) and the Sahana Dance Troupe (visiting from India), during the Hindu festival of Diwali, at the Shree Hindu Community Centre, Tyseley, Birmingham.
Photograph by Sangeeta ...
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.
Neville Chamberlain addressing a meeting of the armed forces
This photograph shows Neville Chamberlain addressing a meeting of soldiers at a civic meeting as Lord Mayor of Birmingham, an office to which he was appointed in 1915; Prime Minister David Lloyd George ...
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 on a 'Garden for the Blind'
This article documents the initial reactions of some of the first users of a garden for blind and visually impaired people that opened at Queen’s Park, Harborne on 31 July 1953.1 The Parks Committee minutes ...
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 ...
News article referring to 'The New Slums'
The Birmingham Gazette article reported complaints made by a resident of Quinton to Birmingham's Licensing Justices regarding the building of a pub serving a new nearby housing estate.