‘No child can resist’, Picture Post
Advertisers used images of children to catch the viewer’s eye. As families became more affluent they also targeted children as consumers. These adverts for Birmingham made ‘Bird’s Custard’ represent children ...
Birmingham Daily Post Article
This report discusses an incident in Cannon Hill Park, in which Charles Cartwright's carriage was pelted with snowballs as he drove through the park on the morning of Sunday 10 January. The article expresses ...
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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Birmingham's 40,000th Municipal House
Photograph originally published in the Birmingham Post depicting the opening of Birmingham's 40,000th municipal home by Neville Chamberlain.
Lesbian and Gay Centre and Switchboard
Birmingham’s Gay Village became home to a number of organisations, such as Lesbian and Gay Switchboard West Midlands. Established in 1975 it offers a telephone information and support service for people ...
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 ...
News Article on 'Suicide in Cannon Hill Park'
There are a surprisingly large number of references in the Birmingham Daily Post between 1857 and 1900 to suicide or attempted suicide in Calthorpe and Cannon Hill parks. This evidence gives an insight ...
News article referring to 'The New Slums'
The Birmingham Gazette article reported complaints made by a resident of Quinton to Birmingham's Licensing Justices regarding the building of a pub serving a new nearby housing estate.
News article, 'It's live and let live in Britain's Harlem'
Balsall Heath, a Home for Immigrants1
The Daily Herald’s article ‘It’s live and let live in Britain’s Harlem’ is included in a volume about ‘ethnic communities’ which was assembled by Birmingham Central ...
The Saltley News
The Saltley News was produced by Birmingham Community Development Project- a government initiative aimed at addressing social deprivation in a number of British cities. The first issue of the Saltley ...
Weoley Castle Rent Strike
Newscutting regarding the Weoley Castle women rent strikers, from the Evening Despatch.