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 ...
Individual boy in uniform, Norton Reformatory
Drill was part of the regular routine for boys at Norton. The reformatory also had a cadet corp.
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, ...
Instructions on the position of schools in the event of invasion sent to the head teacher of Shooting Butts Camp School by Staffordshire Education Authority
Interview with Alf Waldron, Mabel K. Waldron (his sister) and Mabel. A Waldron (his wife)
Excerpt from an interview with a working-class family from Harborne, giving insights into everyday life on the terrace block they lived in on Gordon Road, the surrounding shops, pubs and industries, and ...
Invitation to the Opening of Calthorpe Park
This invitation was issued to William Sands Cox, founder of Queen's Hospital in 1840 as a clincal school for the Birmingham Royal School of Medicine. The invitation is richly illustrated and contains ...
Ipstones Avenue Children's Home, Stechford
This children's home at 50 Ipstones Avenue opened in 1974 as a purpose-built children’s home with 18 beds.
Ipstones Avenue was one of a series of nine purpose-built children’s homes which opened during ...
Ipswich Walk Children's Home, Chelmsley Wood
In the early 1970s, six purpose-built children’s homes were built each of which could accommodate 18 children. Ipswich Walk was one of these, opening in 1973.
The idea for the 18 bed units came from ...
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. ...
J.A.James
John Angell James was an important local 'congregationalist' minister based at Carrs Lane church, Birmingham. He was a longstanding member of the Birmingham Anti-Slavery Society.
Image taken from ...
J.W.C Pennington
In 1850, Pennington visited the 'Birmingham Female Society for the Relief of British Negro Slaves'.
Dr Pennington was himself a slave until the age of twenty in the United States of America. He went ...
Jacob Jacobs
Image: Jacob Jacobs. Birmingham Faces and Places, Vol 4. Local Studies and History.
James Bissett ( 1762?- 1832)
Submitted by Mike Hunkin, Birmingham Archives and Heritage
James Bisset was born in the city of Perth, Scotland, around the year 1762. Not a great deal is known about his early life and family background. ...
James Watkins Letter to the The Aris's Gazette.
James Watkins, a black antislavery activist, appears to have arrived in Birmingham in 1852. Later, in this letter, he commends the town for supporting him and in raising the funds for to pay for the freedom ...
Jane Suffield
Submitted by Maggie Burns, Birmingham Archives and Heritage.
In the early nineteenth century education was a privilege. The parents of upper and middle class children would pay for their education. ...
Japan
Originally captioned 'The Inn (or Yadoya) at Motomiya. Luggage packed in ricksha ready for starting to Inawashiro. Japan.' From the collection of Sir Benjamin Stone.