Recent content by Gill BPHA

Here is a link to the festival https://www.forwardfilmfestival.com/screenings There's a variety of films, but some are history-related. On the Saturday afternoon there are documentaries, tickets free. One of these (The Rise of the Mixy, made by OX-BOY) is about the history and significance of...

Good afternoon, I'm planning our (volunteer run) archive's exhibition during Birmingham Heritage Week. Does anyone have local experiences/memories or items that we could photograph of any of these: VJ Day, 1950s feelings/events about the development of the Cold War, the post-war government's...

Whilst this isn't a history event, Clarion Choir has historic roots, having been founded soon after international involvement on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War. Forum users are welcome to come along.

Hello again Richard - we're hoping to livestream the talk. I'll put a post on Birmingham History Forum if this is done. Best wishes, Gill

Hi Richard, I haven't organised it but I think it's just in-person/face-to-face. I can check if the organiser and BMI are able to set anything up. Gill

All Saints Church, which is the parish church for Kings Heath, has an archive dated from the 1860s-recent times. The collection contains church records, photographs, and a range of information related to the social and economic life of Kings Heath and the wider area. It is sorted but not...

Good afternoon Stephen, thanks for offering to help - that would be great. We have trained some students, and they've done some interviews, but they're quite tied up with end of term work/exams at present. We're hoping to train some new students in the next few weeks. So I'll contact you again...

Birmingham People's History Archive is looking for people who've lived and/or worked in Birmingham over the last 50 years or so, to be interviewed. The interviews will be done by university students (after training) in the spring. They'll be recorded and possibly filmed, with people's consent...