‘Europe Peace or Famine - Which’, by Joseph Southall
The Edgbaston Quaker artist Joseph Southall contributed occasional prints to Sylvia Pankhurst's anti-war suffragette broadsheet 'The Woman's Dreadnought'; the paper later became the 'Workers' Dreadnought' ...
Birmingham Boys and Girls Union Report
The caption underneath this photograph of boys who attended the junior boys club organised by the Birmingham Boys and Girls Union illustrates the anxieties that many middle-class reformers had about working-class ...
Birmingham City Council Tenants Sub-Committee Minutes
The Tenants Sub-Committee was appointed in November 1922. It reported to the City Estates Committee, its chief function being to deal with applications for municipal housing. Estates Department officials ...
Birmingham Mail Charity Boots
From 1889 the Birmingham Mail newspaper ran a Christmas appeal. One of the causes it supported was buying boots for poor children who would otherwise go barefoot. The first distribution of boots was made ...
Birmingham Robins
Extract from the Birmingham Daily Gazette, 12 January 1903 recording the presence of ‘coloured people’ at the Birmingham Robins winter treat.
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John Phillips, philanthropist (born 1836)
Between 1851 and 1871, the number of Jewish families living in Edgbaston had increased from two to a hundred - an indication of the growing prosperity of many Jews.1 John Phillips was one of a number ...
Letter from Norman Chamberlain to Boys Club Members
Norman Chamberlain wrote this letter to members of the Boys Club he organised, to be read in the event of his death while serving in the Grenadier Guards during the First World War. He encourages them ...
Middlemore children on board ship on route to Australia
Middlemore Homes were founded in 1872 by John Throgmorton Middlemore (1844-1924). His mission was to ‘save boys and girls from lives of crime and pauperism’ in the slums of Birmingham and believed they ...
News Article on a 'Garden for the Blind'
This article documents the initial reactions of some of the first users of a garden for blind and visually impaired people that opened at Queen’s Park, Harborne on 31 July 1953.1 The Parks Committee minutes ...
Norman Chamberlain
Norman Chamberlain was the paternal cousin of Neville Chamberlain. He was Chairman of the Parks Committee of Birmingham City Council between 1912 and 1914, when he volunteered to serve in the First World ...
Norton Reformatory admission register
Reproduction of Joseph Pagett, aged 14, a young offender from the admission register of Norton Reformatory.
Identification photographs such as this were made for the authorities to be able to identify ...
Notebook of Robert Aglionby Slaney
These pages are from a series of notebooks kept by Robert Aglionby Slaney, who served as MP for Shrewsbury for several periods between the 1820s and early 1860s. He was interested in social, economic ...
Panjabi Dawn
Poster for an exhibition of photographs by Nirmal Singh Dhesy, Larrie Paul Tiernan and Herbie Lawes, held at the Triangle gallery cafeteria 1 July-2 August 1985. The exhibition was organised by the Sikh ...
Pearson’s Fresh Air Fund Day at Manor Farm Park
A number of ‘Fresh Air’ funds were set up in both Britain and North America during the late nineteenth century, to provide days out or sometimes summer holidays, in the countryside, to children from low ...
Pearson’s Fresh Air Fund Day at Manor Farm Park
One of a series of photographs documenting days out at Manor Farm Park for children from city centre schools, run by Pearson's Fresh Air Fund with the assistance of Elizabeth Cadbury who offered the use ...
Photographs for the Bournville Village Trust, 1939-1943, showing a family at the dinner table
This photograph was taken on the Weoley Castle Estate. The shot is clearly posed. Another photograph showing the family in the garden reveals how high the window was from the ground. The child could never ...
Plan of Uffculme Open-Air School
Uffculme Open-Air School opened in 1911 in the grounds of the Uffculme estate, between Moseley and Kings Heath. The land was provided by Barrow and Geraldine Cadbury, whose son Paul had benefitted from ...
Poor girl in Sutton Park
The comments about the domestic circumstances were very personal, going beyond dry reportage, and it is clear he often found his work an emotional strain. Here he describes visiting a family living in ...