"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 ...
"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 ...
"Stone Photographic Collection"
This exhibition features just a few samples from the extensive photographic collection of Sir Benjamin Stone (1838-1914).
The collection includes 22,000 mounted prints, 17,000 glass negatives, 600 ...
"William Joseph McCardie": Birmingham's Pioneering Anaesthetist
The following text is taken from a Birmingham Stories oral history interview with Harry McCardie, who grew up in a family home in Birmingham, Edgbaston. Harry is now aged 94 years old and is living in ...
‘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
‘In the Happy Days of Our Childhood’ by Maria Cadbury
Maria wrote this memoir much later in life at the request of her niece. Maria was born in 1838 and was the daughter of John Cadbury and his wife Candia Barrow. They lived in Calthorpe Road, Edgbaston, ...
‘In the Happy Days of Our Childhood’ by Maria Cadbury
In the late 18th and 19th centuries seaside holidays became popular with those families who could afford them. With improved transport links, this popularity gradually spread to the working classes who ...
‘Inspector and Starved Child', National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, Birmingham Branch Fourth Annual Report
In the late 19th century many children were seen as victims, not of the cruelty of the workplace, but of their parents and neighbours. The NSPCC entered the homes of the poor to expose instances of cruelty. ...
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 ...
A Gun Manufacturer
Image: A Trade Card of John Sharpe (date unknown).
In the eighteenth and nineteenth century, many Birmingham gun manufacturers relied upon foreign export markets. Often, this could mean the sale of ...
A Nineteenth Century Jewish Obituary
A Jewish Obituary, dated 22/9/75 (newspaper unknown).
A. S. Blanckensee was another significant figure of the nineteenth century Birmingham Hebrew Congregation. He was president of its council between ...
A Petition to Continue the Slave Trade
Did Birmingham Profit from Slavery?
As an industrial town, Birmingham undoubtedly relied heavily on its connections to the slave trade. It was a producer of guns, chains, brassware, and a whole range ...
A Record of the Birmingham Hebrew Congregation Council
This is one of the very first entries contained in the archive of the Birmingham Hebrew Congrebation (reference: Birmingham City Archives, JA) dated 1826. It displays a list of members, who have decided ...
A Tobacco Dealer.
Image: A Tobacco, Cigar and Snuff Dealer. Trade Card (date unknown)
Illustrated industrial artifacts such as the above advert for a Birmingham tobacco dealer can often reveal underlying attitudes toward ...
Account of The Life of Jacob Jacobs (2)
Account of the Life of Jacobs Jacobs (1)