Photograph of Joscelyne’s sister Margaret and their father in front of a bookcase by William Smedley Aston
Photograph of the Parsons family of Halesowen, 1915, showing Abednego Parsons, his wife Fanny, and their daughters Sarah and Norah
Abednego was a Private in the Royal Army Medical Corps and served in France. He survived and returned home at the end of the war. The family is shown in a conventional studio pose with the father standing ...
Photographs by Bill Brandt
The following photographs by the British photographer Bill Brandt (1904-1983) were taken for the Bournville Village Trust from 1939-1943.
Exhibition compiled by Dr Nicola Gauld
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. ...
Photographs for the Bournville Village Trust by Bill Brandt
This photograph shows members of the Dawson family who moved from a back-to-back house in Hockley to a maisonette in Harborne. They subsequently moved to a modern house on the Weoley Castle Estate. The ...
Photographs for the Bournville Village Trust, 1939-1943 showing a girl on a swing by Bill Brandt
Bournville Village Trust was established by George Cadbury in 1900 to manage his model village at Bournville. It had a longstanding interest in improving housing conditions for the working classes. In ...
Photographs for the Bournville Village Trust, 1939-1943, showing a family at the dinner table
This photograph was taken on the Weoley Castle Estate. The shot is clearly posed. Another photograph showing the family in the garden reveals how high the window was from the ground. The child could never ...
Pin and Flag in Support of Belgian Refugees
This pin and flag was issued by the Birmingham Belgian Refugee Committee, which included Elizabeth Cadbury amongst its members and which was formed by the City to raise money and provide food and shelter ...
Plan for a Midlands Arts Centre for Young People
This plan formed part of a proposal prepared by John English concerning the establishment in Cannon Hill Park of a Midland Arts Centre, which he hoped would be administered by an independent trust. The ...
Plan of Uffculme Open-Air School
Uffculme Open-Air School opened in 1911 in the grounds of the Uffculme estate, between Moseley and Kings Heath. The land was provided by Barrow and Geraldine Cadbury, whose son Paul had benefitted from ...
Playing Tennis at Birmingham Botanical Gardens
'The lovers of lawn-tennis will perhaps be surprised to learn that Major Gem was the first to bring that game before the public, but it is an unquestionable fact'.
An obituary for Major ‘Harry’ Gem ...
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 ...
Political Demonstrations in the Parks
During the 1920s and 1930s, the Parks Committee minutes contain detailed information about the type of organisations applying to use Birmingham’s parks for meetings and demonstrations. The issue of whether ...
Politics and performance
Performance played an important role in consolidating a sense of community and identity for migrants. Many cultural performances were organised by the Indian Workers Association, including those for Jagmohan ...
Portrait of a Girl by George Hallett
Hallett (b. 1942) is a South African photographer. Whilst living in exile in Britain in 1971 he was commissioned by the Times Educational Supplement to take a series of photographs in Handsworth. Many ...
Portrait of Rev. Cohen
A portrait of Cohen, minister of Singer's Hill 1913-1949.
Portraits of Individual 'Little Bricklayers' from A Souvenir of the Children’s Bricklaying Ceremony, arranged and carried out under the direction the direction of Mrs J. E. Player. July 29th, 1913.
The Children’s Hospital Brick League was established in 1913. The League’s objective was to raise money for building a new Children’s Hospital at Ladywood. It organised the ‘Scheme for Brick Laying Ceremony’ ...
Postcard of Bristol Road, Edgbaston
This postcard shows the overhead tram cables along Bristol Road. This modern form of transport co-existed with horsedrawn vehicles, one of which appears in the background.