What’s on November! Free events and activities in the Children’s and Music Library 📚🎆

#RemembranceDay To commemorate this Remembrance Day, here’s the front page of our copy of the Birmingham Book of Remembrance, 1914 – 1918. Ref - L 75.9. The original is held at Birmingham Hall Of Memory: https://t.co/gp52svWpZu @LibrayofBham @Britwarmemorial

Stay Calm everyone! Access to our online archival catalogue Calmview: Home Page will be down for essential upgrade work this Wednesday between 8 am - 12 pm. You can still contact us at: archives.heritage@birmingham.gov.uk with catalogue queries @LibraryofBham

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For a recent blog, our Conservator, Lucy shed light on the environmental monitoring in our storage areas. Extreme fluctuations in temperature and relative humidity can pose a significant risk to the archives unless monitored: https://t.co/rp0YhpFq9t @LIbraryofBham

#SundayShowcase rounding off the Chris Upton lecture week is Chris’ posthumous book on the Birmingham Parish Workhouse, 1730-1840. Very little is known of the first workhouse - the assumed date of its building given as 1733 is apparently wrong! Ref - L 41.11 @LibraryofBham

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A beautiful Christmas tree is now up on the second floor. Come and take a look and feel the festive cheer. @LibraryofBham #Christmas2025

#CityOf1000Trades Legg & Company of Bromsgrove Street in this 1900 advertisement of their Ball Room decorating service. They publicised their services as far as Wales and at one time made flags and banners. Ref - L 08.2 Periodicals D/5 / 229383 @LibraryofBham

#PhotoFriday this week is this photograph of an ice cream seller, possibly of Italian heritage with hand on furrowed brow at her stall in Smithfield market, c 1901. Ref - MS 4557 Box 5 @LibraryofBham @Brumpic

Queen's Hospital, established in 1841 by William Sands Cox on Bath Row, was a teaching hospital named by Queen Victoria. Its medical school became Queen's College in 1843. Later merging, with others, to form part of #UoB's medical faculty. Ref: WK/B11/3760 @LibraryofBham

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#BonfireNight #Fireworks A Sutton Coldfield Warden’s notice from 5 November 1799 prohibiting bonfires - ‘No Bonfire will be allowed...near the Town Hall nor in the public street of the town by persons pulling up hedges, etc.’ Ref: BCU/182 @LibraryofBham @RoyalSutColTC

Don’t forget to join us this Saturday for Kevin’s talk on his book investigating the body snatchers and grave robbers of the West Midlands. Book your place at https://t.co/TezjnM5h68 @LibraryofBham

#BonfireNight #Fireworks Here’s a trade catalogue advertising where Brummies of yore may have purchased their fireworks from at C. Adams & Co. on Summer Street in 1887. Reference - Birmingham Trade Catalogue Collection : LS 10/A/6 @LibraryofBham

#MapOnATuesday today is this 1824 specimen of the proposed map of the town of Birmingham and its environs, being a survey of part of the High Street and Five Ways - John Pigott Smith, Surveyor. Ref - MAP/72845 @LibraryofBham

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Meet #MadameNellie Nellie, the parachutist who would dive 6,000 feet unattended from a hot air balloon. Pictured here in The Birmingham Owl magazine on 6 July 1906 in advance of her leap at Mount Cottage Farm. Ref – LF 06 @LibraryofBham @SolLibraries

#SundayShowcase #Railway200 this week is Off The Rails - The Inside Story of HS2 by Sally Gimson. A forensic examination of the project in which the author meets with politicians, engineers and ordinary people affected by HS2. Ref - L 47.34 @LibraryofBham @SallyGimson @Railway200

#CityOf1000Trades this 1900 advert for R. Reppington of Worcester Street, purveyors of fish, game and rabbits who appear to have flourished in the late 19th century. Ref - L 08.2 Periodicals D/5 229383 @LibraryofBham

Get the APPS! e-audio books, e-books, e-magazines, e-comics, e-newspapers. All free. Drop in to the foyer @LibraryofBham and let us assist you. #birminghamreadstogether.

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#PhotoFriday #Railway200 A photo of the platforms at New Street Station in 1905. The golden age of rail travel. Ref - MS 4557 Box 5 @LibraryofBham @Brumpic @railway200

#BirminghamHistory Don’t forget to Join us for the annual Chris Upton Memorial Lecture on Monday 3rd November at 5.30pm - https://t.co/hzfVDUIyJL Image Ref: MS 897,Volume II, Image 218 @LibraryofBham @TypeTweets @BaskervilleSoc