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    • Working with Libraries and Archives (2021-present)
      • Book Marks
      • Records at Risk (2022-24)
      • Archive Testbed (2021-22)
    • Work with Shades of Black (2021-present)
      • Meeting Windrush (2023-present)
      • The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee (2022)
    • Lodge Hill Cemetery and Warfare
      • Field of Remembrance (2017-2019)
      • Untold Stories (2016)
    • Hear Here Her Story (2023-2024)
    • Represent (2018-2022)
    • Stories from the Mill (2014)
    • Paganel Archives (2012-present)
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@PenJones drew the young archivists of 2022, and they added comments about each other to the drawings
Paganel School
15 March, 2025 Marcus Belben

Avid Explorers of Archives – Paganel Archive After-School Club

Paganel Archives opened in 2012 and was the first (and still the only) ARCHON registered repository archive in a state

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LibrariesNews
2 March, 2025 Marcus Belben

Book Marks Launch in Druids Heath, Selly Oak, Stirchley Libraries

Join us for a series of free interactive events launching on World Book Week and drop in workshops throughout the

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Poetry of Place on Tiverton Road
LibrariesNews
8 February, 2025 Marcus Belben

Book Marks in our Libraries.Turning Pages, Shaping Lives

Our new project recording the importance of the book, the library spaces where they are and the marks they have made

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Cover of Newspaper for the International Children's Camp, Brighton 1937
NewsWoodcraft FolkWW1
27 January, 2025 Marcus Belben

After Holocaust Memorial Lessons to Learn

In October 1938 Henry ‘Koodoo’ Fair, National Organiser for Woodcraft Folk was visited by a Czech youth leader from the

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Eunice at MAC exhibition
NewsShades of BlackWindrush
30 October, 2024 Marcus Belben

Happy 90th Birthday Mrs.McGhie-Belgrave MBE

We were lucky to join Eunice McGhie-Belgrave to celebrate her 90th birthday. She has worked throughout her adult life to

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Lodge Hill Old Chapel, now a ruin
Field of Remembrance
11 October, 2024 Marcus Belben

Meeting Birmingham Legends, walking Through History at Lodge Hill Cemetery

As Birmingham Heritage Week celebrated its 10th anniversary, we took the opportunity to spend time at Lodge Hill Cemetery. Here,

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NewsRecords at Risk
19 July, 2024 Marcus Belben

Friction and Heritage – How can Culture Heal?

PHC and Friction (Marcus and Manon) presented at Community Archives and Heritage Group annual conference at UCL 10th July 2024.

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Selly Oak Library when open in 1990s
Libraries
11 July, 2024 Marcus Belben

Bookmarks – a short film screening about Birmingham Libraries

Tuesday 16th July 6:30pm Free event, doors open at Stirchley Library, B30 2LT to see Soheila Javaheri’s film made on

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News
27 June, 2024 Marcus Belben

A Workers Paradise with Birmingham History

A family saga celebrating Cadbury’s BiCentenary, featuring fab music by talented Pete Chirchill 17th July 8pm, The Blue Orange Theatre,

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Gravestone of Herr Blitz
News
26 June, 2024 Marcus Belben

Metomorphosists, Thaumaturgists, Ledgermainists,Ventriloquists, Prestidigitators, Wizardry and Lodge Hill Cemetery

Our exploration of Lodge Hill Cemetery has found some interesting and unexpected stories and people. Not far from Hilda Birkitt‘s

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Contact us via e-mail at rachel@peoplesheritagecoop.uk

You can also follow us on Twitter at @PHCooperative where we tweet regularly about our work, projects of interest happening in and around Birmingham as well as the occasional historical nugget.

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