"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 ...
‘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' ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Birmingham and the Grunwick Dispute 1976-1978
SETTING THE SCENE
‘Grunwick’ was an industrial dispute centred on Cricklewood, north London but which had national significance. Political and campaign groups from around Britain rallied to the support ...
Birmingham Broadside November 1977
BIRMINGHAM’S SOLIDARITY
Birmingham Broadside November 1977 MS 1591 Paul Mackney Collection
This image reflects both traditional and emerging aspects of the local labour movement. The report of the ...
Birmingham International Marxist Group
Birmingham International Marxist Group [IMG] MS 1591 Paul Mackney Collection
Despite advocating a mass picket in support of the ‘Grunwick’ strikers, the IMG’s credentials as a mobilizer of the industrial ...
Birmingham's First Turbanned Guard
In both the workplace and the school, the denial of the right of Sikh men and boys to wear one of the fundamental symbols of their faith and identity caused Sikhs and anti-racist activists alike to campaign ...
Black People Against State Brutality
Flyers were an important medium for publicising Indian Workers Association campaigns. Many were quite unsophisticated in appearance due to the limited printing resources and technology available to the ...
Equal Rights
The 1990s were more encouraging for the gay and lesbian community with the repeal of Section 28, the equalisation of age of consent and from 1997 the emergence of Birmingham Pride, although some of the ...
'Free Nelson Mandela' Flyer
Birmingham District Labour Party Youth Liaison Committee flyer advertising a meeting on Wednesday 26th November at Handsworth Technical College [1980s]. From the records of the Birmingham Anti-Apartheid ...
Hannah Sturge
There are currently few available images of the powerful women who worked for local women's antislavery societies. This image of Hannah Sturge (wife of Joseph Sturge) with one of her daughters seated ...
Independent Labour Party Minutes
This is a page from the 1914-1921 minute books of the Birmingham Branch of the Independent Labour Party, which was chaired for most of the First World War by the Edgbaston artist Joseph Southall. Under ...
Indian Workers' Association GB [IMG]
Indian Workers’ Association GB (Birmingham Branch) MS 2141 IWA
The IWA combined Marxist politics with a concern for the plight of Asians and other immigrants in Britain and had a close, if sometimes ...
Malcolm in Marshall Street (1965)
[Submitted by Paul Quigley]
Malcolm X was known around the world as ‘the angriest Black man in America’ and an inspirational speaker on the injustices of America’s treatment of Black people. On a ...
My journey to and Life in Britain
I have lived all my life in Handsworth and my family came to this country in 1963.
At that time we lived together in the houses with Afro Caribbean people. I lived with mixed families up until 1974. ...
My journey to and Life in Britain
I joined Indian Workers Association in late sixties and was a trade union shop steward.
I am very proud of the Indian Workers Association because of the help and advice that I received from the comrades. ...