"A Striking Modern Fact"
Image:The Birmingham Post, Rev. Cohen Speech (an extract) 1933.
Rev Abraham Cohen gave many memorable and powerful speeches on behalf of the Jewish community. His arguments were remarkable not just ...
"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 ...
‘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' ...
Antislavery and the Birmingham Quaker 'Friends Book Society',
In order for the Birmingham Antislavery Society to be effective in campaigning for social justice, it was vital that they had a network system that provided them with current knowledge about events around ...
Boys Brigade on Whit Sunday March
Boys Brigade on Whit Sunday March, Wolverhampton. Photograph by Nick Hedges for the exhibition 'I'm a Believer - Religion in the West Midlands'.
Carpenter’s Mill, with Birmingham in the distance
This drawing gives a vivid impression of Edgbaston's rural landscape in the nineteenth century. St Thomas's Church, The Windmill on Holloway Head and St Martin's Church are visible in the distance.
Drawing of a Middlemore Girl
As an Edgbastonian, John Middlemore was proudly celebrated in the pages of the Edgbastonia magazine:
‘A benevolent Edgbaston gentleman who has solved one of the difficult social problems of modern ...
Edgbaston with Tower of Edgbaston Church
This drawing shows how rural Edgbaston was in the mid-nineteenth century. The tower of Edgbaston Old Church is visible in the background.
Elizabeth Cadbury (1858-1951)
Entry Submitted by Caroline Forman [Birmingham Archives and Heritage Department]
Elizabeth was the wife of George Cadbury, of Cadbury’s Chocolate, Bournville. She was brought up in a period of British ...
Illuminated Address presented to Samuel Walliker
The people shown enjoying the fresh air in this painting are benefiting from the philanthropy of a man who made his home in Birmingham only in the latter part of his life. After a career in London and ...
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 ...
J.A.James
John Angell James was an important local 'congregationalist' minister based at Carrs Lane church, Birmingham. He was a longstanding member of the Birmingham Anti-Slavery Society.
Image taken from ...
Jane Suffield
Submitted by Maggie Burns, Birmingham Archives and Heritage.
In the early nineteenth century education was a privilege. The parents of upper and middle class children would pay for their education. ...
Most Reverend and Right Honourable Dr John Sentamu, Archbishop of York
Interviewed when Bishop of Stepney: "I think the greatest mistake people make... is to have a half-hearted attitude. An African proverb is: 'We are people through other people: I am because I belong to ...
Pat's Journey to Birmingham
Pat met his wife Bridget when they got talking on the bus as she was going to mass.
She had come to England from Galway, Ireland around the same time as Pat. She worked in a typing pool for the Automobile ...
Rev Peter Stanford.
Stanford was born into slavery in America in 1860. He came to Birmingham in 1887 as a preacher in Hope Street Baptist Church, Highgate. This possibly makes him Birmingham's first black minister. He also ...
Society for Promoting Christianity Among The Jews
As this document shows, whilst the Jewish community was beginning to become more involved in the civic life of the town, this development was not without its opposition. A Birmingham auxillary of the ...
Statue of Bishop Gore, St Philip's Cathedral
Bishop Gore, Sweated Labour and Workers’ Education
This photograph was taken by the City Council’s Information Department in the 1950s for inclusion in an official guide and it celebrates Birmingham’s ...