The Geikwar of Baroda
Photograph taken by Sir Benjamin Stone (1838-1914).
The invention and development of photography brought many more images into circulation in society. As the British Empire grew there was a desire ...
The Geikwar of Baroda
This photograph is annotated with 'The Geikwar of Baroda. Wearing state jewels value £2.000.000'.
'The Ghosts of the Slain', illustrated by Joseph Southall
This antiwar pamphlet with illustrations by Joseph Southall was written by Robert Leonard Outhwaite, a farmer and one-time Liberal MP who became a fellow member of the Independent Labour Party. Whilst ...
The Junction, Kings Norton, by Frank Lockwood
Campaigning for Canals in Kings Norton
Frank Lockwood’s pencil drawing The Junction, Kings Norton shows the toll house in 1958, where the Worcester and Stratford canals join. This tranquil scene reflects ...
The Lord Mayor's European Famine Fund
Minute Book of the Lord Mayor of Birmingham’s European Famine Fund.
The Lord Mayor’s Fund was established by William Adlington Cadbury in December 1919 to provide aid to starving women and children ...
The Men's and Girls' Works Committees
The following photographs depict the Men’s and Girls' Works Committees at Cadbury in 1907. The Works Committees were established in 1905 as management committees. The Girls' Committee consisted of nine ...
'The Mermaid'
This is a 1916 issue of the University of Birmingham Guild of Sudents magazine; the editorial honours combat deaths of University members, including Professor Henri Chatelain (top left) who died with ...
The Moor Pool News
Cover of the Moor Pool Estate magazine, designed to publicise leisure and social activities, advertise local shops and businesses and provide other news for residents of the Moor Pool Estate.
The Moor Pool News
The Moor Pool News was a newsletter printed for residents of the Moor Pool Estate, and appears to have only run for four years between 1910 and 1914. Like similar publications by the Bournville Village ...
The Odd Ball
Poster for an exhibition of sports photography by Roy Peters, featuring fooball and rugby players, tennis players and snooker players, amongst others. The exhibition was shown at the Triangle Photography ...
'The Pied Piper and the Children of Hamelin'
This photograph shows children performing in a play at Stratford on Avon.
The Saltley News
The Saltley News was produced by Birmingham Community Development Project- a government initiative aimed at addressing social deprivation in a number of British cities. The first issue of the Saltley ...
'The Shadow', by W. L. Sherwood
This dramatic frontispiece to an issue of The "Southern" Cross (the Edgbaston military hospital magazine) is entitled simply ‘The Shadow’. It is one of a series of visionary works by Staff Sergeant W.L. ...
The Shelter Archive: Photographs by Nick Hedges
Between 1968 and 1972 Nick Hedges made a series of photographs for the national housing charity 'Shelter'. Launched in December 1966 (the same month as Ken Loach's influential television drama 'Cathy ...
The Sitting Room, by Myra Bunce
‘Mr. Bunce is an intense lover of art and artists […] notable examples of Wainwright, of his old friend Henshaw, of H. Moore, Langley, J. Collier, Aumonier, East, Donaldson, Thomas Baker, Wyllie, and ...
'The Taming of the Shrew' at Cannon Hill Park
This photograph shows a matinee performance at the arena at Cannon Hill Park. Plays had first been performed in the parks as part of the wartime entertainments organised as part of the Brighter Birmingham ...
The Wailers
The Wailers were photographed at The Tower Ballroom, Birmingham, 1986. From the collection "Muzik Kinda Sweet" by Pogus Caesar/OOM Gallery Archive.
The Warwickshire Photographic Survey and Schooling
The Warwickshire Photographic Survey is made up of some 25,000 photographs, 10,000 of which are from the original survey. Set up in 1890 by the Birmingham Photographic Society members Sir John Benjamin ...