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2; 49724 - Review of Matthews (W) Sketch of the means employed to ameliorate the intellectual and moral condition of the working classes at Birmingham. From The Spirit of Literature. 1830. Working Classes. - 1830
2; 62481 - Letter to Lord Ashley on the condition of the working classes in Birmingham, etc. 62pp. 1842. NUNNS (Rev. THOMAS). - 1842
2; 189907 - The brassworkers of Berlin and of Birmingham. A comparison by R.H. Best and others. 82pp. 1905. *BEST (ROBERT HALL). - 1905
3; 239216 - Saint Monday or Scenes from low-life (in Birmingham). A poem. 20pp. 1790. DAVIS (GEORGE). - 1790
3; 436319 - With Christ in the Bull Ring. 1935. *PERKINS (Rev. ERNEST BENSON). - 1935
4; 6544 - Quinborne news. - 1976
4; 413230 - Community News. A journal of events on the estates of Perry Common, Kingstanding and Kettlehouse Farm. - 1933-1937
4; 421115 - Report of the Birmingham Council for Community Associations for the new Birmingham housing estates. 1st, 1932-34 - 1932-1934
4; 476024 - Community Review. The official journal of the Birmingham Community Association. Volume 1. New Series. 1938- - 1938-1940
4; 483207 - Annual gala week. Programme. 3rd (1938)—. Perrystanding Community Association.
4; 541412 - City of Birmingham New Housing Estates, Music Festival and Arts and Crafts Exhibition ... : syllabus.
4; 586910 - Annual reports ...
4; 601700 - Annual report and statement of accounts.
4; 663290 - [Magazine].
4; 692622 - Handbooks.
4; 977390 - Saltley news : the first local Urdu community newspaper in Britain.
4; Z006425 - Annual report / 610 Community Centre. - 1975-1976
5; 224367 - Birmingham and District Association of Boy Scouts. Official year book and diary, 1910 (1st) etc. 1909 etc.. Scouts.
5; 246721 - The Boy Scouts' Association. Imperial scout exhibition, rally, and sea-scout display, Birmingham, 1913. Programme, prize list and description of exhibits. Plan. 1913. Scouts. - 1913
5; 273537 - Annual Report, 13th (1917-18), etc. 1918 etc. Boys' Brigade, Birmingham Battalion.
5; 279423 - Scouting. The official organ of the Birmingham & District Association of Boy Scouts. Vols. 1 - 20. Illus. 20 volumes. 1919-39 NOTE - All published.
5; 325941 - County of Birmingham. Annual report. 2nd, 1921-2. With Church parade service, May 24, 1929.. Girl Guides. - 1921-1922
5; 378740 - Modern Order of Backwoodsmen. To enable Birmingham Boy Scouts to extend, equip and maintain Yorks Wood park as a permanent camping ground. Illus. 20pp. 1927. Scouts. - 1927
5; 465252 - Boys' Brigade. 10th Birmingham Company. Connected with Moseley Road Wesleyan Chapel. Annual inspection programmes. 14th (1925) – NOTE - Wants 20th (1931). Moseley Road Methodist Church.
5; 466091 - Boys' Brigade. 38th Birmingham Company. Annual display programmes, 8th. 1934 With The Link, March 1934. Boys' Brigade, Birmingham Battalion. - 1934
5; 529783 - The Clove hitch. A bulletin of news from the 1st King's Norton Scout Group to its members O.H.M.S., old scouts and evacuees. Number 1. December 1939--. King's Norton.
5; 537509 - First Sandwell (138th Birmingham) Group of Boy Scouts. Annual report 1941-42 -. Scouts.
5; 660687 - Fifty years of scouting in Birmingham and district. - 1957
5; 661643 - Looking forward : a signpost for scouters. - 1959
6; 181003 - Programme ... : reports ...
6; 183321 - Member's cards, 1901-2, 1903-4 to 1923-4. 1901-23 NOTE - 1915-21 wanting. Battersea Club, Midland Branch.
6; 215067 - Rules 1909--. With syllabus of meetings, 1916-17 to 1918-19; 1920-21 to 1921-22; 1923-24 and menus of annual dinners, 1909-10; 1930. NOTE - 1. 1922-23 called List of officers and members 2. 1923-24 to 1924-25 called Syllabus and list of officers and members 3. From 1926-27 called Syllabus and list of officers, members and rules 4. Wants 1925-26; 1933-34. Yorkshirefolk in Birmingham (Society of).
6; 661822 - Executive committee minute books.
6; 661825 - [Cash book ... ].
7; 200691 - Statement of receipts and payments. 1905-6 to 1915-16; 1923-4 - . With annual reports 1911-12 to 1915-16; 1925-26 - NOTE - 1. Reports before 1911-12 not published 2. Accounts 1916-17 to 1922-23 wanting 3. Reports 1916-17 to 1924-25 wanting. Scottish Society (Birmingham and Midland).
7; 217686 - Annual report of the Council of Undeb Brythoniad, Birmingham. 20th - 25th (1905-6 - 1910-11), 27th (1912-13), 31st - 33rd (1916-17 - 1918-19), 35th - 40th (1920-21 - 1925-6) 16 volumes. 1906-26. Programmes 1905-6 to 1925; 1932-3--. Welsh Society.
7; 224471 - The Old Scots and the new. Lecture, 1910, before the Birmingham and Midland Scottish Society. 18pp. 1910. *PEATTIE (THOMAS BRUNTON). - 1910
7; 229031 - Undeb y Brythoniaid, Birmingham. Annual dinner. Programme and menu 1907 etc.. Welsh Society.
7; 237297 - From parish school to university and other papers; memories and Scottish characteristics of forty years since. Papers before the Birmingham and Midland Scottish Society. 1899. CRAIG (GEORGE ALEX). - 1899
7; 260671 - Birmingham and Midland Scottish Society. Concerts in the Town Hall etc. Programmes (various) 1890-1915.
7; 626439 - The Irish worker in English industry, with particular reference to the Birmingham district : [prepared for the] British Association for the Advancement of Science, Belfast Meeting, 1952. - 1952
7; 626477 - Concerts in the Town Hall etc. Programmes (various) 1922-29 NOTE - 1926 wanting. Scottish Society (Birmingham and Midland).
8; 544115 - [Leaflets, programmes, etc.].
8; 662278 - The common touch introducing people to people week November 19-25 [1961 organized by the International Friendship League]. - 1961-
8; 662424 - Helping the immigrants : the report of a West Midlands area, Conservative Political Centre Study Group. - 1962
9; 117641 - Sketches of (Birmingham) city life by Leslie Keen (pseud). Numbers 1 - 5. 1st series. All published. 1893 . GRIFFIN (FRANCIS ARTHUR).
9; 504174 - The Old country under fire. A criticism of present day England. With references to Birmingham. (Toronto) Illus. 1939. BAILEY (JOSH). - 1939
81, 370824 - Annual Reports, 1923 - 1933 (5th - 15th). 1924-34 NOTE - From 1933 balance sheets only issued. Anglo-French Society, Birmingham.
81, 442844 - Balance sheets, 1934-- NOTE - 1. Previously included annual reports 2. None issued between 1938 and 1951. Anglo-French Society, Birmingham. - 1951
81; 180288 - Birmingham Cosmopolitan Club : rules, 1903 : programme of sections 1903-1939.
82; 662163 - Mazdoor : Punjabi language monthly journal of the Indian Workers' Association, Birmingham. - 1961-1962
85; 660981 - Colour and conscience : a study of race relations and colour prejudice in Birmingham / with a foreword by Tom Driberg. - 1957
85; 662763 - Indian immigrants in Britain [based mainly on conditions in Birmingham] / Issued under the auspices of the Institute of Race Relations, London. - 1963
85; 747989 - Immigration, the incredible folly. - 1965
85; 751088 - Immigration, race and politics: a Birmingham view; written by John Lenton, Nicholas Budgen, Kenneth Clarke. - 1966
85; 752934 - A question of colour? : [a comprehensive survey of the colour problem in Britain, with reference to the 1964 parliamentary election in Smethwick] / by Peter Griffiths. - 1966
85; 773069 - The coloured worker in British industry: with special reference to the Midlands and North of England / [by] Peter L. Wright. - 1968
85; 783240 - Enoch Powell on immigration : [an analysis containing the texts of Powell's major statements on immigration] / [by] Bill Smithies and Peter Fiddick. - 1969
85; 803559 - Community action : four examples [with references to the Sparkbrook Association, Handsworth and Weld]. - 1971
85; 803560 - Here to live: a study of race relations in an English town [Leamington Spa] / by Simon Jenkins [with] Research by Victoria Randall. - 1971
85; 812905 - Race and industrial conflict: a study in a group of Midland foundries. - 1972
99; 662939 - [Retirement Council booklets].
99; 663392 - Newsletter of the Fircone (Friends-in-retirement) groups.
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