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.
This wonderful account which is given as a tribute to the life of Danny Morrell (AKA Tongogara).
This September will be BPHA’s 4th event for Birmingham Heritage Week.
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).
The origins of the British trade union movement and the pieces in our collection which chart the birth and development of this transformative development.
Come along to the Birmingham & Midland Institute on Saturday 9 September – the Archive have a range of activities planned!
On Saturday 12 August residents of Highgate and Bordesley Residents Forum joined friends from Balsall Heath on a coach trip organised by the volunteers of Birmingham Peoples History Archive. On the journey were many who had participated in the Everyday Heritage Grants: Celebrating Working Class history project funded by Historic England.
Birmingham People's History Archive 