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 Severn Street School
Image: Photograph from 'The Story of the Severn Street and Priory First-day Schools, Our Jubilee Year' by William White (1895).
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'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 Sins of Our Cities by Our Resident Special Commissioner, III. Birmingham The Modern Review, No. 5
The Sins of Our Cities described how for many children their ‘surroundings were vile, their associates vicious, their homes wretched. ’ Lacking adult moral guidance children were seen as being at risk ...
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 Sturge House on Wheeley's Road
Image: Calthorpe Estate Drawing.
Joseph Sturge was a nineteenth century antislavery campaigner living in Birmingham. In 1822 Sturge purchased land from the Calthorpe estate. He built his house in Edgbaston ...
The Sturge Statue
Image: date unknown.
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The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter (1866–1943)
The Tale of Peter Rabbit was the first of twenty-two ‘little books’ written and illustrated by Potter, with many of them featuring her own pets—Peter Rabbit, Benjamin Bunny, Mrs Tiggy-Winkle, and Samuel ...
'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 Town Hall
Image: An illustration of the Town Hall in the nineteenth century.
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'The Unity of God'
Copy of an early Jewish sermon by M. Raphall, preacher of Hebrew Congregation Synagogue, Birmingham between 1840-1849 who later emigrated to America. The preface of the sermon states 'The following Discourse ...
The Uplands, 33 Greenhill, Blackwell
In the Worcestershire countryside to the south-west of Birmingham, the Uplands was acquired for use as a reception centre in 1967.
The building, dating from the end of the 19th century, had previously ...
The Village
Birmingham has its own vibrant ‘Gay Village’ that mainly focuses on and around Hurst Street in the city centre. This entertainment centre for the West Midlands gay and lesbian community is rapidly becoming ...
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 ...
The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley
This very popular children’s book was written by Charles Kingsley (1819-1875) in 1862-1863 as part of the campaign against climbing boys. The main character, Tom, is a little chimney sweep who drowns ...
Thomas Bodkin file; Recommendations of the Land Tenure Committee
The West Midland Group for Post-War Planning and Reconstruction was a consultative body affiliated to the University of Birmingham, and included academics, city planners like Sir Herbert Manzoni, the ...