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Continuing with our gallery of old #BirminghamNewspapers, here’s the Birmingham Weekly Mercury - as it was known between 1884 – 1918 - on 27 February 1909 highlighting how two Suffragists managed to send themselves by post as ‘human letters’ to petition parliament LibraryofBirmingham




Ice skating maybe not seem the most obvious subject on a summer's day, but the movement of the skaters seemed perfect for today's #OnlineArtExchange theme of Movement & Dance. Le Progrès, 1865. The theme celebrates The Barber Institute's reopening & the Claudette Johnson exhibition.


#Brother is now available to order via our website. The publication features a selection of work made in collaboration with asylum seekers and refugees resident in one of Birmingham’s government assigned hotels. £20.00 + Postage grainphotographyhub.co.uk/portfolio-type… Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery




#MapOnATuesday This Diagram Plan of the City of Birmingham showing area, population and positions of cemeteries. Published by City of Birmingham Parks and Cemeteries Department in 1934. Ref: MAP/424078 LibraryofBirmingham



We have decided to do something different for Digbeth First Friday this month — we will celebrate ourselves! Yep, you read that right - we’re putting on a night where Centrala Celebrates Centrala! 💫 Be there: 5th July, 6pm-8pm #Centrala


Griffiths Useful Boot Manufactory, Spiceal Street, Bull Ring from our Trade Card Collection (Reference: MS 4834/842 LibraryofBirmingham) #CityOf1000Trades #GiantHands





#PhotoFriday Gosta Green photographed in September 1937. A view after the completion of the Central Fire Station. Notice the newly planted roundabout crisscrossed with tramlines Ref – WK/G3/1 LibraryofBirmingham


The Last of England has been an inspiration for Cold War Steve today - see Ford Madox Brown's much loved artwork on display in our #VictorianRadicals exhibition! birminghammuseums.org.uk/exhibitions/vi…


