‘Europe Peace or Famine - Which’, by Joseph Southall

The Edgbaston Quaker artist Joseph Southall contributed occasional prints to Sylvia Pankhurst's anti-war suffragette broadsheet 'The Woman's Dreadn...

‘Wounded Soldiers at a Concert', Southern Hospital

This postcard shows a montage of scenes of wounded soldiers attending outdoor music entertainments at the Southern General military hospital, Edgba...

Fables and Illustrations, by Joseph Southall

This powerful nightmare vision of a weapon of mass destruction is by the Quaker artist Joseph Southall who lived and worked in Edgbaston. 'The Obli...

A Gypsy Encampment, by David Cox

Artists have often sentimentalised gypsies, using them as local colour in idealised rural settings. Here, however, it appears that David Cox has sk...

A works overall documentary picture

Backing paper annotated with: 'Group in Grounds'. This photograph forms part of an archive of photographs produced by Cadbury. Each photograph w...

Birmingham and Moseley Society Journal

In contrast to the general movement to open up green spaces in the city to provide parks for Birmingham’s urban and suburban population during the ...

Bournville Work & Play

The publication Bournville Work & Play was one of a series of publications produced by Cadbury during the 1920s and 30s. The publications we...

Bournville Works and the War 1914-1919

Bournville Works and the War 1914-1919 was a commemorative publication produced at the request of Cadbury’s employees in 1920. Throughout t...

Cocoa - The Story of its Cultivation, illustrated by Frank Newbould

Frank Newbould’s designs for Cocoa: the Story of its Cultivation, were in a bold graphic style. He used vibrant colours to illustrate some o...

Edgbastonia Title Page, 1881

‘The contents will be of local interest, or local production, and […] they shall be of a healthy moral tone, and be altogether non-political and un...

Edgbastonia Title Page, 1900

Edgbastonia magazine greeted the new century with a re-designed title page.

Edgbastonia Title Page, 1902

Edgbastonia incorporated the City's coat of arms 'Forward' into its title page in 1902.