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Successful family art workshop
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.
Black History Month: SHS project remembers Avtar Jouhl
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).
Meeting Saturday: the origins of trade unions
The origins of the British trade union movement and the pieces in our collection which chart the birth and development of this transformative development.
BPHA at Birmingham Heritage Week
Come along to the Birmingham & Midland Institute on Saturday 9 September – the Archive have a range of activities planned!
BPHA community trip to Nottingham Industrial Museum
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.
Volunteer View: Albert Knight and the Central Labour College, 1909-1929
BPHA are proud to hold the personal papers and photographs of Albert Knight 1903-1979), trade unionist and alumni of the Central Labour College. Here, one of our newest volunteers, Toby, presents the fruits of his research on this important strand of British labour history.
Friends of BPHA raise £300 at the Wilmslow Running Festival
£300 raised by the Friends of the BPHA at the Wilmslow Running Festival.
Volunteer view: Our Birmingham, The Birmingham of Our Forefathers and the Birmingham of Our Grandsons
As a part of our university experience we – three University of Birmingham final-year students – were given the opportunity of a placement module to gain work experience and acquire skills which could help us find jobs upon graduating.
National Archives backs BPHA with new grant
The Birmingham People's History Archive has been backed by the National Archive with a significant grant under the Archives Resilience grant scheme.
Birmingham People's History Archive 