🚨 Keir Starmer I have an urgent agenda item for your discussion with Donald Trump tomorrow: stop genocide in #Sudan. 1 million refugees, mostly women & children are running out of food. And many could die unless global leaders do something about it. #Darfur via Avaaz

A message from Laila Soueif from her hospital bed to the thousands of people around the world that have stood with her in solidarity. "I know that whatever happens to me, you are going to get Alaa out of jail."

Celebrating #IWD2025, a poster for a meeting of the Women’s Freedom League for Suffrage at the Temperance Hall in November 1913. Ref - LE/Women/6 LibraryofBirmingham Women's Day

In celebration of #InternationalWomensDay our latest blog welcomes new collections to our Women’s Suffrage Movement Archives. These objects reveal how humour was used to create an approachable image of the suffrage campaign. Blog linked below: ow.ly/I9KB50VbTqx

Free event - the wonderful Stella Halkyard at Marsden Library 3 April 2025 John Rylands Research Institute and Library eventbrite.co.uk/e/library-live…

Votes for Women! Inspiration in words and pictures. rylandscollections.com/2025/04/04/vot… via @thejohnrylands Amazing new items for the Rylands!!

This week on our blog we are celebrating the archive of Nick Hedges and his pioneering social documentary photography which is currently being displayed at the National Trust Birmingham Back to Backs. Read more here theironroom.wordpress.com

To mark the 80th anniversary of #VEDay, here’s a photograph of a street party on Heeley Road, Selly Oak celebrating the end of hostilities in Europe in 1945. Ref: WK/S4/137 LibraryofBirmingham Brumpic

#Eurovision2025 this week. Remember when Brum hosted the Eurovision back in 1998 - that’s the last time we hosted on the back of a win. Dana International, Sir Tel and Ulrika! Good luck to all! Reference - LF 55.3 LibraryofBirmingham Eurovision Song Contest

The Tales of the Gladiator #DruidsHeath local history project archive (MS 5184) is now available on our Universal Access platform - birmingham.access.preservica.com/index.php?name… Photo Ref - WK/K5/186 LibraryofBirmingham PlaceProspectorsCIC

I know we’ve been a bit quiet lately. We’ve spent the last year and a bit upgrading the Edge - and other things. We’re launching this weekend with CREATE, a young person designed and led festival of art, music and fun. Bring your young ‘uns! frictionarts.com/wp-content/upl…

#LoudonCollection Jane Loudon - author and horticulturalist was born in Edgbaston in August 1800. Here’s an illustration of Traveller's Joy, Meadow Rue and Pheasant's Eye from The Book of British Wildflowers. Reference - JL 43 LibraryofBirmingham

You're coming to Manchester to study and you want to know more about the city's history? We've got you covered. tldr; Manchester was the world's first industrial city, and you'll see that legacy all around you as you explore. medium.com/special-collec…

#PigeonFanciers MS 4680 : records of ‘Project Pigeon’ are now available on Preservica Universal Access - tinyurl.com/MS4680Preservi… A community heritage project interviewing pigeon fanciers in Birmingham and the Black Country - tinyurl.com/PigeonBlog LibraryofBirmingham Royal Pigeon Racing Association

#BHeritageWeek makes a very welcome return this month for its 11th appearance, taking place from the 12th to the 21st of September. Birmingham Archives and Collections will be hosting more events than ever. Find out more - theironroom.wordpress.com/2025/09/08/bir… Bham Heritage Week LibraryofBirmingham

#BHeritageWeek Don’t forget to join us on Tuesday 16 September with guest speaker, Colin Hyde to explore how sound archives preserve our audio heritage and expand local history research - eventbrite.co.uk/e/listening-to… LibraryofBirmingham Bham Heritage Week

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#BirminghamHistory today brings you these hand-made playing cards drawn and painted on the back of cards advertising an anti-slavery meeting held at Birmingham Town Hall on 22 January 1873. Ref - MS 1509/5/69 LibraryofBirmingham B:Music, responsible for Symphony Hall & Town Hall

#PowerAndPride2025 tinyurl.com/BHMOct25 Local photographer Herbert Walters’ collection - Portraits of Black Britain (MS 5183/3) has recently become available on birmingham.access.preservica.com/archive. Photographs mostly taken in Birmingham and London between 2008–2022 LibraryofBirmingham Black History Month 2026