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Birmingham, England
Joined April 2010
What’s on October! 🎃 Free events and activities at the Library of Birmingham 🦇📚
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Tonight we are lighting the Library of Birmingham blue, purple and yellow to mark #GloWeek 2026, in aid of Child Brain Injury Trust. For more details, visit orlo.uk/QIBgg
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#PhotoFriday today is the Big Top fair and circus which pitched up on a bombsite on the corner between the High Street and New Street. The fair was held from the 1940s. Ref - WK/B11/7755. Do you have any memories? Share them with us, in the comments @LibraryofBham @Brumpic
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#Napoleon #POW We often think of POWs in relation to the two world wars - here’s a list of British soldiers from the depot at Verdun during the Napoleonic wars tucked away in the Matthew Boulton Collection. Ref – MS 3782/19/2 Letter book, Jan 1808 – August 1809 @LibraryofBham
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#BhamWomen #BHM2026 today is Beverly Lindsay (now Dame Lindsay) who according to this Birmingham Mail article, 15 May 2007 was marking the twentieth anniversary of being the first black woman in Birmingham to open a travel agent, Diamond Travel @LibraryofBham @bhmuk
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#MapOnATuesday is the Handsworth Estate, being the 46th estate purchased by the Birmingham Freehold Land Society c1879. Showing land divided into building plots in Murdock Road, Linwood Road, Whateley Road, Douglas Road, Albert Road and Grove Lane. Ref – MAP/333099 @LibraryofBham
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#Ancestry are just finishing off scanning the last of the documents which will eventually make their way online. Amongst them are the rate books for #SuttonColdfield @LibraryofBham
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#BHM2026 today’s blog looks at Rastafarianism in Birmingham along with its key figures. A sophisticated social phenomenon defying standard categorisation, containing elements of religion, protest movement and subculture: theironroom.wordpress.com/20… @LibraryofBham @bhmuk
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#SundayShowcase is Dis Poetry : selected poems & lyrics by Benjamin Zephaniah. This anthology brings together all the poems from Benjamin's three Bloodaxe collections along with previously unpublished work and lyrics. Ref – L 52.21 ZEP @LibraryofBham @bhmuk @BZephania
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#CityOf1000Trades is this 1912 trade catalogue for the New Hudson Cycle Co. Ltd. The company was started in 1890 making safety bicycles and began to produce motorcycles in 1903. Ref – The New Hudson 3 – Speed Motorcycles @LibraryofBham
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Tonight the Library of Birmingham will be lit pink and blue as part of a #WaveofLight to mark Baby Loss Awareness Week. For more info, visit: orlo.uk/tNqA7
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#PhotoFriday today is the Council House just shortly after its construction in 1879. Notice the statue of Sir Robert Peel which at the time was only the second statue erected in Birmingham in August 1855. Ref – Council House 81 @LibraryofBham @Brumpic
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#BirminghamLibraries The Wish Stone : an old tale retold for modern times [1933] part of our Early and Fine Printing Collection. Containing 19 woodcuts and one of only 500 copies. Ref - Ridler p 2231 @LibraryofBham
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#BirminghamHistory This week’s blog by Susan Darby explores collections here to uncover the story of her husband’s great-great-grandfather, Richard Prosser (1804–1854), a forgotten pioneer of Birmingham’s industrial heritage and beyond. theironroom.wordpress.com/20… @LibraryofBham
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#Birmingham Don’t forget to join Hugh J Thomson for his book talk - The Doctor Will See You Now this Saturday at 2 pm on Level 4. Hugh reflects on his time as a consultant surgeon. Just turn up on the day. @LibraryofBham @Pegasus_Books
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🧠 Join us for our Brain Health Event and discover simple ways to support your health, wellbeing and independence as you age. 📅 Tuesday 13 October 🕚 11am to 2pm 📍 Wellbeing Zone, @LibraryofBham #AgeingWellMonth #AgeingWellBirmingham2026 #HealthAgeing
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#Birmingham an illustration of the Gem Street industrial school opened in 1850 to cater for orphans and neglected children. The school relocated to Harborne in 1902 and became known as the Birmingham Industrial School (Harborne). Ref – WK/B11/3405 @LibraryofBham
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#BHM2026 Bad Friday by Brum born Norman Samuda Smith – the first British born black novelist to be published in the UK in 1982. Ref - L 51.3 SMI @LibraryofBham @bhmuk
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#MapOnATuesday is this outline of roads in the parish of Kings Norton drawn for the Board of Surveyors, 1875. The parish boundary and names of most roads are shown. Ref – MAP/273587 Bickley @LibraryofBham
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🧠 Want to learn more about brain health and ageing well? Join us for our Brain Health Event as part of #AgeingWellMonth in Brum. 📅 Tues 13 Oct | 11am-2pm 📍 @LibraryofBham Discover support, activities and advice to help you stay well as you age. #AgeingWellBirmingham2026
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#SundayShowcase today is Vanley Burke’s By The Rivers of Birminam, Vanley’s work is a photographic document of the Caribbean diaspora in post war Britain, detailing the experience of Black people in the UK and their community identity. Ref: L 25.69 @LibraryofBham @bhmuk #BHM2026
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