[Causeway Green Hostel, Birmingham 1949]
[Submitted by Kevin Searle]
One important reason as to why the black community in London, developed around Brixton, is because many of the arrivants who migrated aboard the Empire Windrush were initially ...
‘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' ...
‘Wounded Soldiers at a Concert', Southern Hospital
This postcard shows a montage of scenes of wounded soldiers attending outdoor music entertainments at the Southern General military hospital, Edgbaston, including an inset of a boy dressed in a soldier's ...
'A Medical Board', by W.L. Sherwood
This caricature by Staff-Sergeant W.L. Sherwood presents a sardonic view of the Medical Boards, which decided the fates of many soldiers during the First World War. Consisting of a panel of both military ...
'A Patient's Nightmare', by Will Adams
This grim satirical caricature conveys something of the deeply divided emotional response experienced by soldiers who were surgical patients in the Edgbaston Southern General Hospital. Although wounded ...
Advertisement placed by Cadbury in The Nursery World advising parents on how to prevent children suffering from war worries
Cadbury advertised their Bourn-vita drink as a nutritious product that would help children sleep and avoid war worries. Child psychologists and the general public were very concerned about the effects ...
'Being Marked Out'
This is one of several caricatures published by wounded soldiers in the Edgbaston WW1 military hospital magazine that express deeply conflicted feelings towards the medical and administrative staff. ...
Belgian Refugee Register: War Refugee Committee
The Belgian Refugee War Register is one of a series of documents associated with the Belgian War Relief Fund that was established during World War One to support the thousands of Belgian refugees who ...
Belgian refugees at Moor Green House, Moseley
Billiards at Highbury Hospital
This photograph shows WW1 wounded soldiers enjoying a game of billiards during a recreation break in the pioneering orthopaedic rehabilitation programme at Highbury Hospital (previously the residence ...
Birmingham and District War Refugees Committee, Register of Belgian refugees
During World War 1 thousands of refugees escaped from war-torn Belgium and many settled in Birmingham. The Birmingham War Refugees Committee chaired by Elizabeth Cadbury found work for adult refugees, ...
Birmingham War Hospital Committee Minutes
These minutes record the management of the two Birmingham War Hospitals at Rubery Hill and Hollymoor between 1916 and 1922. During 1914 it became clear that many more beds would be needed than the existing ...
Boer War Memorial, Cannon Hill Park
This postcard shows the unveiling of the memorial to servicemen from Birmingham killed in the Boer War conflicts in South Africa around the beginning of the twentieth century. The memorial was sculpted ...
Bomb Damage to Birmingham Parks
Many parks across Birmingham sustained damage during the Second World War. The Parks Committee minutes contain details of the effects of each air raid on the park buildings and landscape. This is the ...
Bournville Works and the War 1914-1919
Bournville Works and the War 1914-1919 was a commemorative publication produced at the request of Cadbury’s employees in 1920. Throughout the war Bournville Works Magazine featured a column entitled ...
Brighter Birmingham Programmes
In common with other cities and towns in Britain and as promoted by the government, Birmingham City Council organised a variety of events during the Second World War to provide entertainments for war ...
'Bucking Up The Boys', by E. Lawrence Levy
In this book Lawrence Levy wrote a vivid account of the WW1 hospital entertainments provided by his variety troupe the Birmingham Athletic Club, whose Gymnasium was on King Alfred's place (now the site ...
Calendar illustrated by Hans Schwarz showing an internment camp
This drawing looks like an internment camp. It is unclear whether it relates to German concentration camps or British internment camps, or when exactly it was drawn. Like many other refugees Hans was ...