"Equiano and Birmingham"
All text by Dr Andy Green
Equiano and Birmingham: Researching the Links.
This exhibition is intended to generate more research into Olaudah Equiano’s visit to Birmingham in 1790.
Equiano ...
"My Journey to and Life in Britain"
MY JOURNEY TO AND LIFE IN BRITAIN
My name is Sarwan Singh. I came to this country in 1960. I have lived all my life in Handsworth and worked in Birmingham. I am a member and office bearer of Indian ...
"The Joseph Sturge Monument "
The Joseph Sturge Monument at Five Ways: A Photographic Essay.
All text by Dr Andy Green
This city story highlights the changing fortunes of Birmingham’s monument to Joseph Sturge (1793-1859). ...
‘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' ...
‘Jamaicans Seeking Work in Britain’
Submitted by Birmingham Stories.
The 22nd of June, 1948, was a deeply important date in British history. This date marked the docking of the Empire Windrush, in Tilbury, Essex. The landing of the Windrush ...
‘My Life’s Battles’ by Will Thorne
Will Thorne (1857-1946) was born into a poor family in Farm Street, Hockley on 8 October 1857. His father was a brick maker, and on weekends he would drink and get into fights. His mother and sisters ...
A Legacy of Anti-Fasicm
Image: Civil Liberties in Britain, (extract) 1965.
Jewish activists would continue to play a significant role in Birmingham throughout the twentieth century. This is an article by Maurice Ludmer, in ...
Abolition of Slavery: The Birmingham Antislavery Society's Opening Statement.
This document identifies the original members of the Birmingham Anti Slavery Society and provides an ‘opening statement’ of their aims and objectives. It is noticeable here that in 1826 the society subscribed ...
Advertisement for the Women's Social and Political Union
‘The Rights of Woman’, what are they?
The right her husband to obey,
The right to show forth all her life
How proud she is to be a wife!
The right, oh, noble destiny!
The daughter of a man to be.
The ...
Ahmed's Journey
"My name is Ahmed Mirreh. I was born in Khamis Mashed in Saudi Arabia. I stayed there for 6 years. In 1989 civil war was in Somalia. My parents emigrated to Holland. There was at that moment no other ...
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 ...
AMERICAN SLAVERY TO ENGLISH MINISTRY: THE REVD. PETER THOMAS STANFORD (1860-1909)
Submitted by Rev. Paul Walker of Highgate Baptist Church, Birmingham.
In 1995 I was investigating the history of Highgate Baptist Church, when a friend brought me details of an article he’d noticed ...
Anti-Apartheid Demonstration Flyer
Flyer for an Anti-Apartheid demonstration held on Saturday March 12th, nd. [1980s]. From the records of the Birmingham Anti-Apartheid Organisation
Anti-Jewish Conversion Society
A Jewish form of resistance to organisations such as the Birmingham auxillary of the 'Society for Promoting Christianity Amoung the Jews' was to engage with social debate. The mission of this society ...
Antislavery and the Birmingham Quaker 'Friends Book Society',
In order for the Birmingham Antislavery Society to be effective in campaigning for social justice, it was vital that they had a network system that provided them with current knowledge about events around ...
Antislavery Lecture by Rev Thomas Swan (extract).
Lectures, speeches, public addresses and sermons were a vitally important way of spreading the word about slavery to the Birmingham public. The extract above shows a dramatic example of how Rev. Thomas ...
Arthur O'Neill (1819-1896)
Submitted by Stephen Roberts
Arthur O'Neill lived in Birmingham from 1840 until his death in 1896. He made his mark as a Chartist, a peace lecturer and a Baptist minister. O'Neill was of Irish descent ...
Banner Theatre, Play Advertisements
Image: Fragment of brown paper with hand drawn logo for Banner Theatre.
This exhibition represents a spectrum Banner Theatre's past productions, from Collier Laddie (1973)to 'Strangers in Paradise ...