"We Should Remember Them": Alfred Thomas Richards (1883- 1916)
[Submitted by Don Richards]
On the 17th April 1883 Alfred Thomas Richards was born at Harrold Place, Bell Barn Road, Edgbaston Birmingham, an area more popularly known today as Lee Bank. On July 1st ...
Staff Recommends: Photographic Collections
This is an additional miscellaneous resource list of materials contained in Birmingham Central Library’s photographic archive collections. These items were displayed at an event during research workshop ...
Faces and Places: Sarwan Singh and the Indian Workers Association
[Submitted by Sarwan Singh]
On the 3rd of October 2008 Birmingham Stories held an event entitled 'Race and Racism' in Birmingham Central Library. At this session, Dr Kevin Searle introduced the new ...
Malcolm in Marshall Street (1965)
[Submitted by Paul Quigley]
Malcolm X was known around the world as ‘the angriest Black man in America’ and an inspirational speaker on the injustices of America’s treatment of Black people. On a ...
Faiths, Journeys, Jewels: Jacob Jacobs and Birmingham
[Submitted by Dr Andy Green]
Introduction: Rediscovering the Past
From a sign on a wall, it is sometimes possible to uncover a whole history. Buildings that we walk past every day can often hold ...
Faces and Places: The Middlemore Archive Collection
[Submitted by Angela Skitt, Birmingham Archives and Heritage Department]
The Middlemore Homes were founded in 1872 by John Throgmorton Middlemore as the ‘Children’s Emigration Homes’. The first ...
Faces and Places: Helen Newill
[Submitted by Angela Skitt, Birmingham Archive and Heritage]
Helen Newill's Positions:
Chair of The Association for the Rescue and Training of Young Women (Birmingham
District), 1906-1914
Head ...
Rhoda Anstey (1865 – 1936)
Submitted by Dr Tansin Benn (Last appointed lecturer to Anstey College of Physical Education, 1981 - 1984) and Dr Ida Webb (Last female Principal Dr Ida Webb, student 1947 – 50, Principal 1969 – 1975), ...
Faces and Places: 156 Oak Tree Lane
Submitted By Birmingham Stories.
What link did 156 Oak Tree Lane in Bournville once have with Poland in the 1960's? View the entry to find out more....
[Causeway Green Hostel, Birmingham 1949]
[Submitted by Kevin Searle]
One important reason as to why the black community in London, developed around Brixton, is because many of the arrivants who migrated aboard the Empire Windrush were initially ...
Elizabeth Cadbury (1858-1951)
Entry Submitted by Caroline Forman [Birmingham Archives and Heritage Department]
Elizabeth was the wife of George Cadbury, of Cadbury’s Chocolate, Bournville. She was brought up in a period of British ...
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. ...
Faces and Places: Thomas Ewart Mitton
Submitted by Maggie Burns, Birmingham Archives and Heritage
Thomas Ewart Mitton, called Ewart (his family name)in this article, born in April 1897, died young. Like most of his generation he enjoyed ...
Faces and Places: 34 Wheeley's Road
Submitted By Birmingham Stories
What link does Wheeley's Road, Edgbaston have with international activism and refugee histories? View the entry to find out more....
WEA Development Education Project - Inez Scarlett
This photograph shows me on my Caribbean holiday cruise. I got dressed in an evening gown and meet the Captain of the ship. Afterwards I went to sit down for a meal in a five star restaurant and the ...
WEA Development Education Project-Inez Scarlett
My name is Inez Scarlett and I am Jamaican born and of Afro-Caribbean descent. Although I am Jamaican I have spent the majority of my lifetime in England. In the early part of my life in Jamaica I went ...
WEA Development Education Project - Floribell Banbury
My name is Floribell Banbury and I was born in the Parish of St Ann, in a little district named Retirement in Jamaica. I came to England on the 4th June 1958, after travelling for 14 days by boat. This ...
WEA Development Education Project - Esmena Patricks
This photograph was taken in Tenerriffe, USA. I went with my group from Annie Wood Centre, Aston. It was a really hot day and we all enjoyed the holiday. I really do love to travel.
On this globalisation ...