You may have seen the news Princess Anne, patron of the Save The Children charity, is visiting the birthplace of co-founders Eglantyne Jebb & her sister Dorothy Buxton. If you are interested in researching these women or the charity, we hold the archive calmview.bham.ac.uk/Record.aspx?sr…

#nationalgardeningday . A beautiful watercolour of Arllen Fawr in August 1903 taken from the sketchbook of Ida Chamberlain. Ref: BC/D/2/10 #archives #specialcollections #garden #universityofbirmingham

An update on the Avon Papers Project: The (previously) uncatalogued material has now been catalogued! You can see and read about some of the interesting material that has been found in a new blog post avonpapersarchiveproject.wordpress.com/2024/04/04/cat…

We will be closed over Easter on Friday 29 March-Wednesday 3 April. Reopen Thursday 4 April as usual. We wish everyone celebrating a very happy holiday.🙂

Wishing you all a happy and blessed Ramadan from all at the University of Birmingham Dubai 🌙

Work experience opportunity. Are you an undergrad Uni of Birmingham? Passionate about archives or rare books, and keen to find out about a summer internship CadburyRL? Follow the link to Worklink vacancies: edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat… Position no. 905696. We want to hear from you!

Happy #InternationalWomensDay2024 💜
One of our favourite quotes from one of our favourite writers ✍️
Our contemporary fiction display is also ongoing at Main Library - time to pick up a new read?

This year marks 100 years since the signing of the Declaration of the Rights of the Child by the League of Nations in 1924. The international human rights document was drafted by Eglantyne Jebb founder of the #SavetheChildrenFund in 1919 with her sister Dorothy Buxton. #IWD2024

Exhibition now on about the pioneering women who studied and taught at the Birmingham School of Art, 19th-20th century. Find out about Georgie Gaskin, Kate Elizabeth Bunce, sisters Edith Payne and Margaret Gere, lecturer May Morris and others. birmingham.ac.uk/facilities/bar…

I’m absolutely delighted to have been awarded the Birmingham Eighteenth Century Centre BECC - 18th Century Studies postgraduate fellowship for this year! I can’t wait to get to Birmingham to conduct my research and to work with the wonderful collections in the CadburyRL! 📖📚🖊️

New cataloguing project has begun! Robert Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon (1897-1977) was a former Prime Minister of the UK (1955-1957) having previously served three terms as Foreign Secretary. His papers are deposited CadburyRL See project blog: avonpapersarchiveproject.wordpress.com

Marking the 10th anniversary of Professor Stuart Hall's death tomorrow Uni of Birmingham researchers hail discovery as missing link in the thinking of the ‘godfather of multiculturalism’ and development of #CulturalStudies

Read the news item here:👉🏼ow.ly/sJHx50QzBxt 🧵1/2

In 1847 Lady Charlotte Bridgeman visited Weston Park kitchens & describes in her diary tossing pancakes “in the most superior manner”. We hope you have the same success as Charlotte! Ref: MS204 #pancakeday #shrovetuesday

Interested in the experiences of men and women working in countries around the world since the early 1800s? Find out more about free, remote access to our biggest mission archives: birmingham.ac.uk/facilities/cad…

I know we are biased, but who couldn’t love a book about libraries? This excellent, extremely readable new history is now available in the Shakespeare Institute Library, although you may have to form an orderly queue behind the staff to read it!

Celebrating #ChineseNewYear ? Check out our ‘Turn of the Century China’ Flickr album which features some fabulous images late C19th-early 20th-century flickr.com/photos/cadbury…

A new cataloguing project has started CadburyRL! Prof Stuart Hall born 1932 was an academic, writer & prominent cultural theorist. He was Director of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies Uni of Birmingham. See project website for info
stuarthallarchive.bham.ac.uk #StuartHall

New addition for our LGBTQ resource guide – books by Magnus Hirschfeld (1868–1935), a German Jewish doctor who helped pioneer the study of sexuality & gender. Hirschfeld is recognized as an early pioneer of the movement for LGBTQ+ rights birmingham.ac.uk/facilities/cad… #LGBTHM24

🚨 MOST SECRET. The FO800 & FO954 collections contain official government records from the private office of Sir Anthony Eden when Foreign Secretary 1930s-1950s. Much of the correspondence was marked as highly confidential but is now available to consult in our searchroom!

Re-upping for the Monday morning crowd: four days left to apply for the BECC-BSECS research fellowship!