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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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Youth Archives graph
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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NewsRecords at RiskReport
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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