TASCoS Sports Pavilion at Lifford
This pavilion was designed by Henry Simister, consulting architect for Ten Acres & Stirchley Co-operative Society. Recreational activities were important elements of the co-operative movement. Whilst ...
Testimony
Testimony, African Methodist Episcopal Church of Zion, Wolverhampton. Photograph by Nick Hedges for the exhibition 'I'm a Believer - Religion in the West Midlands'.
'The "Southern" Cross'
This is the cover of the first issue of The "Southern" Cross, the magazine of the First World War military hospital based on the University campus at Edgbaston. In his Foreword, Lt-Colonel Marsh (Hospital ...
The Standard Newspapers Trial
The University of Birmingham Special Collections hold a range of legal documents pertaining to the Cadbury Bros Ltd v The Standard Newspapers Limited legal case. The range of documents include a ‘Statement ...
The 1st Southern General Military Hospital, Edgbaston
This photograph shows an outdoor performance presented by the Birmingham Athletic Club (BAC) in an open-air ward at the 1st Southern General Hospital at Edgbaston. The Club was directed principally as ...
The 1st Southern General Military Hospital, Edgbaston
This photograph shows VAD nursing staff with WW1 wounded soldiers in the Great Hall main ward (Aston Webb building) of Southern General military hospital on the Edgbaston campus.
The 1st Southern General Military Hospital, Edgbaston
WW1 wounded soldiers from Autralia and Scotland join other Allied patients to pose with VAD nurses in the grounds of the Edgbaston military hospital.
The 1st Southern General Military Hospital, Edgbaston
This photograph shows wounded WW1 soldiers wearing their 'convalescent blues' in Chancellor's Court by the Chamberlain clock tower on Victory Celebration Day at the 1st Southern General military hospital, ...
The 1st Southern General Military Hospital, Edgbaston
This is a formal group photograph of the senior Army Doctor medical staff of the 1st Southern General military hospital, Edgbaston; Chief Administator Lt-Col Marsh is seated in the centre.
The 1st Southern General Military Hospital, Edgbaston
This photograph shows wounded WW1 soldiers in the grounds of the military hospital at Edgbaston; many Army doctors believed that being in the open air was therapeutic for the injured and sick and encouraged ...
The 1st Southern General Military Hospital, Edgbaston
This photograph shows WW1 soldiers in ‘convalescent blue’ uniforms with overflow accommodation tents in front of the Aston Webb building in the grounds of the 1st Southern General military hospital, Edgbaston.
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The 1st Southern General Military Hospital, Edgbaston
This postcard shows VAD nurses in the grounds of their accommodation at University House, Edgbaston, which had been the student women's hostel.
The 1st Southern General Military Hospital, Edgbaston
This photograph shows nurses on the Edgbaston site of the 1st Southern General Hospital treating wounded soldiers in an open-air ward. From the outset of the war Robert Saundby (a professor of Medicine ...
'The Baby-House', by Millais
Etching by John Everett Millais (1829-1896).
The Victorian nursery, with its dolls and dolls' houses, provided an early training in motherhood. Millais, perhaps not insignificantly, entitled his etching ...
The Birmingham Afro-Caribbean Organisation
Undated photograph of the Birmingham Afro-Caribbean Organisation. From the papers of Henry Gunter.
Henry Gunter was secretary of the Afro-Caribbean Organisation, which was started in the 1940s. Gunter ...
The Black Triangle
Poster for exhibition of photographs by Armet Francis of people living in Africa, Jamaica, Barbados, New York and London, retracing the journeys taken by his ancestors during the period of the Atlantic ...
The Chamberlain Family at Highbury
This photograph is from an album compiled by Mary Endicott Chamberlain, third wife of Joseph Chamberlain. The album contains a number of photographs of the grounds at Highbury Hall, and includes several ...
The Chinese in Birmingham
Photograph by Terry Lo.