"Charles Parker and The Radio Ballads"
The Radio Ballads and the Oral History Tradition
‘England, England, and there’s nowhere like it at dawn’. These words come from a working class railway driver called Jack Pickford, who was interviewed ...
"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, ...
"Pogus Caesar: Muzik Kinda Sweet"
Photographs of black musicans, from the exhibition "Muzik Kinda Sweet" by Birmingham film-maker, photographer and artist Pogus Caesar.
For the past 20 years Pogus Caesar has been a television producer ...
"Proud History"
The histories of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people in Birmingham and the West Midlands remain largely hidden from view although recent research in the archives has begun to recover episodes ...
"Questions of Travel": The Lives of Benjamin Stone and Helen Caddick
All text by Dr Andy Green
“From the time I was a very young man, I have been a great traveller ” (Stone, ‘Mainly about People’, 1908).
On a wall of the Local Studies Department of Birmingham ...
"Triangle Photography Gallery Posters"
Derek Bishton was director of the Triangle Photography Gallery, part of the Triangle Arts and Media Centre at Gosta Green, Birmingham, between c.1984 and 1987. These are some of the posters advertising ...
‘A Birmingham workshop’, from ‘The Child Slaves of Britain’ by Robert Sherard
Sherard was a journalist who campaigned against the exploitation of child workers.
‘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' ...
‘Hampshire Village Play’ from ‘Back to the Village’ series
‘Our Alf’s a Postman Now’
‘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 ...
19th Century Black Performance
Black performance in Britain has a long history. As far back as the sixteenth century musicians had a presence in public life, playing at the courts of monarchs and performing as military bandsmen (Fryer ...
20th Century Black Performance
As migrants from South Asia and the Caribbean arrived after the Second World War a dramatic change took effect in the direction of black performance in Britain. It was during this century that black people, ...
A Boy and a Catch of Fish
This photograph shows a boy and a catch of fish, with the fishing rod and basket beside a tree.
A Government School in Wadi Halfa
This photograph shows advanced scholars and teachers at a Government School in Wadi Halfa.