A busy year was rounded off by a well attended meeting on Saturday 13 December in the main hall at Birmingham & Midland Institute. The occasion marked 80 years since the Victory in the east over Japan, and was held on the 88th anniversary of the Nanjing massacre.
A Year in Archives is the annual publication about and for the UK archives sector.
On Monday 24 February, Professor Chris Winch of King's College London spoke on behalf of the Birmingham People's History Archive at the BMI, on the subject of Britain's apprenticeship system, past and present.
The Community Archives and Heritage Group (CAHG) has named the Birmingham People's History Archive as their Group of the Month for September 2024. The CAHG is a national group which aims to support and promote community archives within the UK & Ireland. Since 2006 they have organised an annual conference and since 2011 they hold... Continue Reading →
Children, learning about the history of trade and industry, and the working lives of the labouring classes, thought about the connections between our industrial landscape of canals, factories and warehouses and the jobs that went on there.
This October marked one year since the death of Avtar Jouhl, a prolific anti-racism campaigner and highly regarded General Secretary and National Organiser of the Indian Workers Association (GB).
Come along to the Birmingham & Midland Institute on Saturday 9 September – the Archive have a range of activities planned!
The Social History Society has awarded the Birmingham People's History Archive a grant under the BME small grants scheme.
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