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"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 ...

"Charles Parker and The Radio Ballads"

The Radio Ballads and the Oral History Tradition ‘England, England, and there’s nowhere like it at dawn’. These words come from a working class railway driver called Jack Pickford, who was interviewed ...

"Erdington (Aston Union) Cottage Homes / The Gardens, Fentham Road, Erdington"

ASTON UNION COTTAGE HOMES 1900 - 1912 The idea behind the cottage homes was to take children out of the workhouse – the main provision for destitute people, be they adults or children. Birmingham ...

"George Hallett: Bearing Witness"

Photographs by George Hallett of the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, exhibited as 'Bearing Witness', at the Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry, in 2004. The Promotion of National Unity ...

"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 ...

"Proud History"

The histories of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people in Birmingham and the West Midlands remain largely hidden from view although recent research in the archives has begun to recover episodes ...

"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 ...

"Shenley Fields (Kings Norton) Cottage Homes"

KINGS NORTON UNION COTTAGE HOMES Birmingham had three sets of cottage homes for children built in the Victorian era - the Birmingham Union built cottage homes at Marston Green, the Aston Union built ...

"Sisters of the Long March"

The Black woman in Black His[Her]story has been a prominent point of focus, from the female monarchs of African Kingdom’s, such as Queen Amina of Zaria, to the role of the matriarch in black families ...

"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 ...

[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 ...

‘A Birmingham workshop’, from ‘The Child Slaves of Britain’ by Robert Sherard

Sherard was a journalist who campaigned against the exploitation of child workers.

‘Before and After’ photographs of Henry from the Annual Report of Middlemore Homes

Middlemore Homes relied on public donations to fund their work. ‘Before and after’ photographs were used to promote the Homes and raise money by showing the physical and moral improvement of the children. ...

‘Birmingham Wheels’, Bordesley

‘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