#BehindTheScenes . We’ve just started cataloguing these 19th and 20th century Colonial Office reports of African and Caribbean nations in our Black & South Asian History Collection. Making more of the collection accessible to you LibraryofBirmingham

#PhotoFriday #brumpic The interior of the Singers Hill Synagogue, Blucher Street. Built in 1856 and designed by Yeoville Thomason who also created the designs for the Council House. WK/B11/7812 LibraryofBirmingham BHC - Singers Hill

#LookinAtYa - Myra and Kate Bunce at a fancy dress ball in 1914. Myra, seated - was a landscape painter and designer while Kate is renowned as a painter. Kate's works feature in birminghammuseums.org.uk/exhibitions/vi… Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery LibraryofBirmingham

#birminghamcity #astonvilla As it’s nearing the end of the football season, what an opportune time to look at the heritage of both clubs via these early programmes in our collections. Reference - LB 25.14 Birmingham City FC Aston Villa LibraryofBirmingham

#MapOnATuesday Map of Birmingham and its environs with boundaries taken from the Reform Act. Published under the superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, 1839. MAP/376115 LibraryofBirmingham

For this week’s blog, Salima, our Library Assistant takes a look at Turner Macon’s 1829 translation of the Shahnameh, a Persian saga of folklore, legend and history (A095/1829) theironroom.wordpress.com/2024/04/15/tur… LibraryofBirmingham

#GardeningDay #botanicalgardens . As it's National Gardening Day, here's a colourful picture of the Birmingham Botanical Gardens. Designed by John Loudon in 1829. WK-E1-318 LibraryofBirmingham Birmingham Botanical Gardens UK

#SundayShowcase . The Voice : 40 Years of Black British Lives. A history of Britain's only and longest running Black British newspaper. Reference – 072 Black & South Asian History Collection LibraryofBirmingham The Voice Newspaper

#Vaisakhi . To mark the start of Vaisakhi 2024, here’s a programme from 1999 celebrating the tri - centenary of the Khalsa. Reference - LP 19.971 LibraryofBirmingham CSGB

#PhotoFriday . Last week we brought you the passageways off Spiceal Street - so here’s the real deal taken on 29 July 1952. Wheatlands Furnishers were based at 6 Spiceal Street. Reference - Bull Ring 24 LibraryofBirmingham

#PetLove . Today is National Love Your Pet Day. Pets always need looking after especially during conflict - how to care for a furry loved one in a war - look no further than this 1939 guide. Reference - Birmingham Institution E/12 (544113) LibraryofBirmingham

#PollyOliver . Dear me, looks like Polly had too much cheese before she went to bed. Extreme measures really to find her true love. Reference – Broadside Songs, vol.2, page 119. LF 05.2 LibraryofBirmingham

#MapOnATuesday . This German WW2 military map of Birmingham received by the Ministry of Town and Country Planning in 1950. Snow Hill and New Street stations visible in the bottom left corner. Reference - MAP/996272 LibraryofBirmingham

For this week’s blog, Rachel - one of our Senior Assistants is celebrating National Pet Month and looking at canine related items in our collections - theironroom.wordpress.com/2024/04/08/nat…
Prize Dogs, Birmingham Dog Show, 1905 (Stone Box 16/Print 37) LibraryofBirmingham

#TheatreRoyal . If you were traipsing around Birmingham on this day in April 1924 in pursuit of entertainment, here’s what may have tickled your fancy at the Theatre Royal. Question - just what is it every woman knows? Reference - L 28.1 LibraryofBirmingham

#SundayShowcase . An autobiographical trilogy looking at the music scene in the West Midlands from the 1960s to the present. Birmingham Collection 55 EVE LibraryofBirmingham BirminghamMusicArch

#WingateBettCollection . A Birmingham City Transport Rambler ticket issued in the summer of 1969, an example of tickets from this collection. Anyone remember using one of these? See more via our blog (tinyurl.com/2s3w55r4). Wingate Bett Ticket Collection Vol. 9 LibraryofBirmingham

#PhotoFriday . A passageway off Spiceal street near the Bull Ring taken on 26 July 1938. One of many passageways still found in the city centre before WW2. Who’s the figure in the shadows? WK/B11/5418 LibraryofBirmingham

#LookinAtYa . It's the Revd. Peter Stanford - Minister of the Hope Street Baptist Church, Highgate between 1889 - 1895. Stanford was an African American and had spent time subjected to slavery. Faces & Places, vol.6, 1894, opposite page 184. L 08.2 LibraryofBirmingham

#Ramadan2024 . One of the oldest editions of the Quran in our collections - the Alcoran of Mahomet ‘translated out of Arabique into French and newly Englished’, 1649. Reference - 094/1649/2 LibraryofBirmingham B'ham Central Mosque