Portrait of a Bridesmaid
Bridesmaid at a wedding in West Bromwich.
Portrait of a Rastafarian Woman
This woman was the first Asian Rastafarian woman. This photograph is taken in her house in Handsworth
Portrait of a Woman
This portrait deliberately includes parts of the background of the room. Things like the candlewick bedspread, the radio, and the ornaments all give a sense of the period that the photograph was taken ...
Portrait of a Woman
This is a photograph of Molly taken at the YWCA on Bristol Road.
Protest outside Downing Street 1970's
This photograph was taken at a protest outside Downing Street in the late 1970's. Protesters were angry about issues around the new government in Zimbabwe.
Reading For Miss
This is one of the few Vanley Burke photographs with a title. Taken at Grove Lane Junior and Infant School, Handsworth in the 1970's.
Remission (Sonia Stevenson, Ruth Ible, Melanie Kerr) in rehearsal for the Well Concert
Members of the original Remission choir ensuring that they have perfect sound before the concert. If the message of spirituals is endurance of the trials of life with the reward of life after death, ...
Suffragette Activity in Handsworth
This article, taken from the Birmingham Daily Mail describes a suspected suffragette arson attack on the boathouse in Handsworth Park. In 1913 Suffragettes in the Women's Social and Political Union ('militant' ...
Suffragette Activity in Handsworth
This article, taken from the Birmingham Daily Post describes a suspected suffragette arson attack on the boathouse in Handsworth Park. In 1913 the Women's Social and Political Union adopted a campaign ...
Suffragette Activity in Handsworth
This article, taken from the Handsworth Herald describes a suspected suffragette arson attack on the boathouse in Handsworth Park. In 1913 the Women's Social and Political Union (the 'militant' Suffragettes) ...
Suffragette Activity in Handsworth, 1913.
This image marks the start of a short composition on Suffragette activity in Handsworth. Eight articles have been selected from three newspapers, the Handsworth Herald, the Birmingham Daily Mail, and ...
Suffragette Activity in Perry Barr
This newspaper article from the Birmingham Daily Mail describes a suspected arson attack carried out by suffragettes on the home of the recently deceased Mr Hossell who had been a Birmingham Councillor....
Suffragette Activity in Perry Barr
This newspaper article from the Handsworth Herald describes a suspected arson attack carried out by suffragettes on the home of the recently deceased Mr Hossell who had been a Birmingham Councillor.
Suffragette Meeting in Handsworth Council House
This newspaper report from the Handsworth Herald details a meeting of the 'militant' suffragettes. By 1913 the Suffragette movement had split into two main bodies. The Women's Social and Political Union ...
Suffragette Pilgrims arrive in Birmingham
During 1913 Suffragettes organised a March from Carlisle to London. On 12 July 1913 the march passed through Handsworth from Wolverhampton to a reception at Hockley. This Birmingham Daily Mail article ...
Suffragettes Protest Outside Winson Green Prison
In July 1913 Prime Minister Asquith came to Birmingham to speak at Bingley Hall. Suffragettes incensed at his lack of activity in the field of Women's Suffrage smashed windows of the hall as he spoke. ...
Suffragettes Release from Winson Green Prison
After smashing windows at the Grand Hotel in Birmingham, where Prime Minister Asquith was speaking, eight suffragettes were imprisoned in Winson Green Prison. They went on hunger strike and were released ...
Suffragettes released from Winson Green Prison
After smashing windows at the Grand Hotel in Birmingham, where Prime Minister Asquith was speaking, eight suffragettes were imprisoned in Winson Green Prison. They went on hunger strike and were released ...