TASCoS Rule Book
The success of the co-operative movement owed much to its ability to operate within political and economic niches. This was both facilitated and constrained by legislation which placed obligations on ...
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 ...
'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 Arts
Birmingham has long been associated with arts and culture. Since the 18th century the city has been home to writers, musicians and artists, and a centre for cinemas, theatres and concert halls which have ...
'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 Battle of Cable Street
Image taken from the 'Picture Post' (1943) of vandalism to Jewish property during the battle of Cable Street.
"The Battle of Cable Street or Cable Street Riot took place on Sunday October 4, 1936 ...
The Cave
A number of black arts centres have been founded in Britain which have provided an important space for the development and performance of black artists. Their development, primarily in the 1980s, reflected ...
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 ...