India
Originally captioned 'The Maharajah. Holkar of Indore. India'. From the collection of Sir Benjamin Stone.
Individual boy in uniform, Norton Reformatory
Drill was part of the regular routine for boys at Norton. The reformatory also had a cadet corp.
Invitation to the Opening of Calthorpe Park
This invitation was issued to William Sands Cox, founder of Queen's Hospital in 1840 as a clincal school for the Birmingham Royal School of Medicine. The invitation is richly illustrated and contains ...
J.A.James
John Angell James was an important local 'congregationalist' minister based at Carrs Lane church, Birmingham. He was a longstanding member of the Birmingham Anti-Slavery Society.
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Jacob Jacobs
Image: Jacob Jacobs. Birmingham Faces and Places, Vol 4. Local Studies and History.
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. ...
James Watkins Letter to the The Aris's Gazette.
James Watkins, a black antislavery activist, appears to have arrived in Birmingham in 1852. Later, in this letter, he commends the town for supporting him and in raising the funds for to pay for the freedom ...
Jane Suffield
Submitted by Maggie Burns, Birmingham Archives and Heritage.
In the early nineteenth century education was a privilege. The parents of upper and middle class children would pay for their education. ...
Japan
Originally captioned 'The Inn (or Yadoya) at Motomiya. Luggage packed in ricksha ready for starting to Inawashiro. Japan.' From the collection of Sir Benjamin Stone.
Japan
Originally captioned 'Making Tea, Japan.' From the collection of Sir Benjamin Stone.
Japan
'Wintertime, Japan.' From the collection of Sir Benjamin Stone.
Japan
Originally captioned 'Japanese Girl in Wet Weather.' From the collection of Sir Benjamin Stone.
Japan
'Buddhist Priests, Japan.' From the collection of Sir Benjamin Stone.
Japan
Originally captioned 'A youth of the better class, Japan.' From the collection of Sir Benjamin Stone.
Jew's Burial Ground
Map of Birmingham, 1810.
This is part of an early nineteenth century map of Birmingham, a document which helps us to see the development of the Jewish Community. In the very bottom right hand corner ...
Joseph Sturge
Image: Copy of an engraving of Joseph Sturge, originally published in 'The British Workman', 1859.
Joseph Sturge was a nineteenth century antislavery campaigner living in Birmingham.
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Joseph Sturge and The Severn Street School
Image: extract from 'The Story of the Severn Street and Priory First-day Schools, Our Jubilee Year' by William White (1895)
The text gives an account of Joseph Sturge's involvement in the founding ...
Joseph Sturge with family and John Bright.
Image: nineteenth century photo of Joseph Sturge, taken from 'Sophia Sturge, A Memoir'(1940).
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