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‘Opening of the Christian Kunzle Alpine Home for Children’, The Davos Courier

This article reports the arrival of 36 children from Birmingham Children’s Hospital at the Alpine Home for Children in Davos, Switzerland in 1932. It was believed that the health of children suffering ...

A Government School in Wadi Halfa

This photograph shows advanced scholars and teachers at a Government School in Wadi Halfa.

Admission Record for Joseph Pagett, Register of Norton Reformatory

In the first half of the 19th century statistical studies seemed to show that Britain was being engulfed by a growing population of hardened young criminals. They stalked the streets, ever alert to the ...

Amanda Smith

Amanda Smith came to Birmingham in 1879. Born into slavery in the United States, Amanda Smith's father bought his freedom and that of his family. Smith herself was educated at home, and in 1863 moved ...

Ann Street School, Birmingham

Oil painting by Alfred H. Green (c.1822-?). Past schooling is brought vibrantly to life in this painting. We can see infants sewing, reading, listening, watching, falling asleep, crying, putting on ...

Application of Alice Cumbley, Institution for the Blind, Birmingham

Alice Cumbley was at Birmingham Institution for the Blind in the early 1900s. The Institution kept detailed records for each child from admission to leaving.

Birmimgham's 'Negro Emancipation School'.

Image: The Negro Emancipation School (Subscribers List) This rare document shows how in 1838 many of the members of the Birmingham Antislavery Society, including Sturge, helped to found a short lived ...

Birmingham Blue Coat School Boys

The Blue Coat School stood at the east end of St Philip’s churchyard. It was founded as a charity in 1723 to board and educate the children of the poor. Boys and girls were taught to read, write and do ...

Birmingham Blue Coat School Girls by Sir Benjamin Stone

The children were clothed in distinctive blue uniforms. The photographs are particularly important as the names of the children are included. These can be cross referenced with the other school records. ...

Birmingham Childrens Homes- Resources for Schools

Introduction to resources for schools The records reproduced here are a sample of the archive material about Birmingham Children’s Homes, held by Birmingham Archives & Heritage. They have been put ...

Birmingham People’s Kindergarten, Greet

Infant children are tidying the kindergarten room. ‘Home life’ was the basis of activities. Children were encouraged to help each other by doing domestic and garden work and looking after pets. There ...

Blue Coat Charity School Apprenticeship Indenture

Joseph Eadley would have entered the Blue Coat School when he was 7 years old. The entrance age was increased to 9 in 1819. The School later arranged for children to be apprenticed. Joseph was apprenticed ...

Blue Coat Charity School Apprenticeship Indenture

Mary Taylor would have entered the Blue Coat School when she was 7 years old. The entrance age was increased to 9 in 1819. The School later arranged for children to be apprenticed. Mary was apprenticed ...

Board School Boys

This photograph shows school boys from a Board School in Stratford on Avon.

Board School Girls

This photograph shows school girls from a Board School in Stratford on Avon.

Booker T. Washington

Booker T. Washington, a controversial African-American figure, was perhaps one of the last great abolitionists to visit Birmingham who had lived through the devastation of the American Civil War. In its ...

Bournville Continuation School Cookery Notebook

In 1926, George Cadbury Jnr wrote that, 'As employers […] we only have a right to use the labour of young people if we make sufficient provision for their proper development […] the privilege of using ...

Boys Exercising in the School Yard, Birmingham by William Woollaston

This image shows boys exercising with dumb bells. A growing concern for the health and welfare of school children led to physical drill and exercises being introduced into the curriculum. Such activities ...