[Causeway Green Hostel, Birmingham 1949]
[Submitted by Kevin Searle]
One important reason as to why the black community in London, developed around Brixton, is because many of the arrivants who migrated aboard the Empire Windrush were initially ...
African Roscius
This is a playbill for a production of Othello, performed at the Theatre Royal, Birmingham in 1846. The production starred renowned black actor Ira Aldridge, who was known as 'African Roscius.'
Aldridge ...
Female American Serenaders
This advertisement for the Female American Serenaders from 1847 represents a form of performance that was popular in Victorian England during the nineteenth century- blackface minstrelsy.
The performance ...
Letter from Arthur Davies to Lord Calthorpe
Lord Calthorpe's land agent, Arthur Davies, discusses potential sites to donate for the building of Birmingham's new university.
Lewis Lloyd (1870-1940)
Lewis Lloyd was Honorary Secretary of the Workers’ Educational Association (WEA), Birmingham Branch. He was also a keen photographer, recording public libraries whose crucial role in adult education was ...
Oswald Mosley
Image: Oswald Mosley at the Town Hall. (Birmingham Newspaper Cuttings Political History 1930-1932)
It is important to remember that at the time people like Rev Cohen were making speeches against the ...
Plan for a Midlands Arts Centre for Young People
This plan formed part of a proposal prepared by John English concerning the establishment in Cannon Hill Park of a Midland Arts Centre, which he hoped would be administered by an independent trust. The ...
Postcard of the School of Art, Birmingham
This postcard carries a handwritten message from Gertie of Sparkhill to Lily Morris, who was staying in the popular holiday and health resort of Llandudno. At this time the back of the card was reserved ...
Professor Muirhead
The Edgbastonia magazine presents the new University of Birmingham as the pride of all Edgbastonians. Professor Muirhead is proudly claimed as an ‘Edgbastonian Past and Present’. The writer asserts that ...
Proposal for a Midlands Arts Centre for Young People
This is the first page of a proposal prepared by John English concerning the establishment in Cannon Hill Park of a Midland Arts Centre, which he hoped would be administered by an independent trust. It ...
Stirchley Library - exterior
Lewis Lloyd’s photograph of Stirchley Library was taken in 1913 for the Warwickshire Photographic Survey, now held at Birmingham Central Library. Not long opened at this date, the library was constructed ...
Stirchley Library - interior
Lewis Lloyd captured an important aspect of Edwardian society with this photograph. Still without full electoral suffrage, women found that libraries offered opportunities for them to relax and to gain ...
TASCoS Sports Pavilion at Lifford
This pavilion was designed by Henry Simister, consulting architect for Ten Acres & Stirchley Co-operative Society. Recreational activities were important elements of the co-operative movement. Whilst ...
The Town Hall
Image: An illustration of the Town Hall in the nineteenth century.
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Town Hall Antislavery Meeting, 1838
Image: Report of The Birmingham Antislavery Society
For more details on Birmingham antislavery, follow the link below to 'Campaigning for Social Justice'
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