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"Birmingham's Council-run Children's Homes"

Between 2009 and 2010 a small team, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and Birmingham City Council, set about creating a history and archive of Birmingham's many Council-run children's homes between ...

"Church and Community"

A showcase of some of the material contained in the Vanley Burke Archive. Photograph: "Austin Road Pentecostal Church. The two ladies kiss each other as a sign of peace after they had washed each other's ...

"Connecting Identities"

Young people's photographs of Aston and Yardley. Connecting Identities was a youth inclusion project, that involved young people using photography to explore issues around identity, izzat/pride, place, ...

"Erdington (Aston Union) Cottage Homes / The Gardens, Fentham Road, Erdington"

ASTON UNION COTTAGE HOMES 1900 - 1912 The idea behind the cottage homes was to take children out of the workhouse – the main provision for destitute people, be they adults or children. Birmingham ...

"Ghazala Saddique: Lok Mela Festival, Birmingham"

Photographs by Ghazala Saddique, October 2000. Lok Mela is the national folk festival of Pakistan, held in the first week of October. It is a cultural celebration that usually involves folk music, ...

"Handsworth Self Portrait"

A selection of photographs from the 'Handsworth Self Portrait' project. Handsworth-based photographers Derek Bishton, Brian Homer and John Reardon organised the self-portrait project in autumn ...

"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 ...

"Shenley Fields (Kings Norton) Cottage Homes"

KINGS NORTON UNION COTTAGE HOMES Birmingham had three sets of cottage homes for children built in the Victorian era - the Birmingham Union built cottage homes at Marston Green, the Aston Union built ...

"Sisters of the Long March"

The Black woman in Black His[Her]story has been a prominent point of focus, from the female monarchs of African Kingdom’s, such as Queen Amina of Zaria, to the role of the matriarch in black families ...

‘A Birmingham workshop’, from ‘The Child Slaves of Britain’ by Robert Sherard

Sherard was a journalist who campaigned against the exploitation of child workers.

‘Before and After’ photographs of Henry from the Annual Report of Middlemore Homes

Middlemore Homes relied on public donations to fund their work. ‘Before and after’ photographs were used to promote the Homes and raise money by showing the physical and moral improvement of the children. ...

‘Birmingham Wheels’, Bordesley

‘Children of the poor’ taken on an outing of the Birmingham Cinderella Club to Sutton Park by J. Crwys Richards

Social reformers like Charles Dickens and Mary Carpenter in the 19th century, and Robert Sherard in the 20th were concerned that being out on the street put children in moral and physical danger. They ...

‘Children of the poor’ taken on an outing of the Birmingham Cinderella Club to Sutton Park by J. Crwys Richards

‘Children of the poor’ taken on an outing of the Birmingham Cinderella Club to Sutton Park by J. Crwys Richards

‘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' ...

‘Gang Magasine’, Bumper Christmas Number

The ‘magasine’ contains jokes, competition pages, verses, puzzles and games, stories and gang notices. The members of the gang were Alan Thompson (captain and editor of the ‘secret club’ magazine), Graham ...

‘Ginger A Story’

Ginger tells the story of a fictional boy named Harry Smith and how poverty and his stepfather’s cruelty turned him to crime. He was placed in Middlemore Homes and sent to Australia. The story ends happily ...