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Birmingham, England
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What’s on October! 🎃 Free events and activities at the Library of Birmingham 🦇📚
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#MapOnATuesday is this Goad Fire Insurance map of Bull Street dated October 1889. Originally produced by the firm of Charles E. Goad Ltd. to aid companies in assessing fire insurance premiums. Ref – Map cabinet 1/3, HRA Map Area @LibraryofBham
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Jump on-board tomorrow!! @LibraryofBham @BhamCityCouncil
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The 4th of November is National Stress Awareness Day. Browse our Health and Wellbeing collection on the Upper Terrace or find a quiet space to sit and read on the Lower Terrace. @LibraryofBham
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#BHM2026 Smethwick-integration or racialism? Published by the Co-Ordinating Committee Against Racial Discrimination (1965). CCARD began in 1961 by Jagmohan Joshi and Maurice Ludmer, a sports journalist - founding editor of magazine Searchlight. LP 21.85 (Box 2) @LibraryofBham
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#Birmingham The Malt Shovel Inn from a sketch made in 1869, located on Smallbrook Street, near to the junction with Suffolk Street. Recorded in directories from the mid – 19th century, disappearing during the post-war redevelopment of the area. Ref: WK/B11/3486 @LibraryofBham
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#BHM2026 In 1895, three representatives of Bechuanaland (now Botswana) visited British cities including Birmingham to enlist support for their campaign to protect their lands from colonial expansion. Ref - Illustrated London News, 21 Sep. 1895. Ref - BF 072 @LibraryofBham @bhmuk
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#SundayShowcase is A History of Parish Registers in England & Wales by John Wintrip. A comprehensive survey of the history of parish registers from 1660 - 1837. A detailed account on the changes in format and content of parish registers. Ref: 929.342 @LibraryofBham @boydellbrewer
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#CityOf1000Trades Chance Brothers glassworks were based in Smethwick but members of the family owned factories in Birmingham. This plate for a staircase window is in a 1867 catalogue. Ref – Birmingham trade catalogue collection @LibraryofBham @sandwelllibs @SandwellArchive
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#OperaConnects Today is World Opera Day which celebrates the power of opera to create connections on a personal and global footing. Here are two examples of performances in Birmingham. Elizabeth Schwarzkopf (LB 38.01) and Paul Robeson (LP 22.41) @LibraryofBham
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LibraryofBirmingham retweeted
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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LibraryofBirmingham retweeted
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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