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News
7 June, 2024 Marcus Belben

Archiving the Mixed Economy of Welfare

Hosted by the Cadbury Research Library and supported by the British Academy Research Project ‘Archiving the Mixed Economy of Welfare’

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Sunshine doctor poster
News
20 May, 2024 Marcus Belben

Labour, Health & Sunshine in the Alpine Sanatoria

Free Birmingham People’s History Archive talk 22nd May about the Alpine Sanatoria in the 1920s, where the ‘sunshine doctor’ treated

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16 May, 2024 Marcus Belben

Building on Records formerly at Risk with Young Artivists

We came back to Friction’s planned refurbishment at the Edge to see how the building work is going with ‘Young

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Start of the walk from Touchbase Pears, library room at Selly Oak
LibrariesNews
12 May, 2024 Marcus Belben

Save our Libraries from ‘Mixed Delivery Model’ Cuts

On 11th May we joined an awareness walk and talked with residents about why Libraries were important to them. In

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Awareness walks for Libraries flyer
LibrariesNews
10 May, 2024 Marcus Belben

Walking to Libraries, saving our Libraries

This Saturday we’re walking to local Libraries on an ‘Awareness Walk’ – Selly Oak, Stirchley and Druids Heath Libraries are

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News
12 December, 2023 Marcus Belben

Save the Date PHC AGM 22nd Jan 7pm Old Mo

Please come along to our Annual General Meeting, Monday 22nd January 2024 7-8pm at the Old Moseley Arms, B12 9QU.

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Evaline Hilda Burkitt was a British suffragette and member of the Women's Social and Political Union. A militant activist for women's rights, she went on hunger strike in prison and was the first suffragette to be forcibly-fed
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10 December, 2023 Marcus Belben

Hear Here Hilda Burkitt

Hilda Burkitt (19 July 1876 – 7 March 1955), our champion for Human Rights. Hilda told the Home Office she

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Boy looses cleaver cartoon
Hear HereNews
28 November, 2023 Marcus Belben

Hear Here Bertha Ryland

Birmingham suffragette Bertha Ryland inspired women taking part in Hear Here Her story. Born in Edgbaston in 1882, a stone’s

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Amazing detail in the tactile cloak
Hear HereReport
27 November, 2023 Marcus Belben

16 Days uncloaking violence against women

Violence against women stops us all being free and living the lives we choose. We began 16 days of activism

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Malala Yousafzai By 内閣官房内閣広報室 - kantei.go.jp – ユスフザイ女史による表敬及び共同記者発表, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=104706553
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22 November, 2023 Marcus Belben

Hear Hear Malala Yousafzai

‘Proud Brummie’ Malala Yousafzai inspires women whose stories, through Hear Here Her story, will be contributed to our Archives within

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