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L - Local Studies and History book collection - pre 1941

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B.Col - The Birmingham Collection - nd

F - Large volumes (folio) - nd

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p - Pamphlets - nd

01 - Physical Aspects - nd

02 - Geology - nd

03 - Natural History - nd

04 - Meteorology - nd

05 - General Works - nd

06 - Directories - nd

07 - Book Trade in Birmingham - nd

08 - Periodicals and Newspapers - nd

09 - Bibilography on all aspects of the history of Birmingham - nd

10 - Religion - nd

11 - Ecclesiology, Church Buildings, Art, Furniture - nd

12 - Monastic Birmingham - nd

13 - Church of England General Histories - nd

14 - Diocese of Birmingham. Archdeaconary of Birmingham - nd

15 - Diocese of Birmingham. Archdeaconary of Aston - nd

16 - nd

17 - Roman Catholic Church - nd

18 - Nonconformists Dissenters - nd

19 - Minor Denominations - nd

20 - Social Life - nd

21 - Social Life Special Classes - nd

22 - Customs of Public and Private Life, Pageants, Festivals Ceremonies and Other Customs - nd

23 - Inns, Taverns, Public Houses, Hotels, Hospitaity, customes connected with eating and drinking - nd

24 - Clubs and Societies - nd

25 - Amusements, Recreation, Sports and Pastimes - nd

26 - Circuses, Fair and Similar Shows - nd

27 - Parks, Open Spaces, Public Gardens and Pleasure Gardens - nd

28 - Theatres, Music Halls - nd

29 - Legends, Ghost Apparitions, Hauntings - nd

30 - History of Birmingham Government from ealiest times - nd

31 - City Corporation, The Mayor, Aldermen and Council Collectively - nd

32 - Mayoralty - nd

33 - Aldermen - nd

34 - City Council - nd

35 - Freedom Qualifications, Rights and Duties of Citizens - nd

36 - City Officials and Departments - nd

37 - nd

38 - Town Hall - nd

39 - Regional Government - nd

40 - Statistics, Yearbooks of General Statistics - nd

41 - Poor, Life and Labour - nd

42 - Crimes, Offences, Misdemeanours, Juvenile Crime, Special Crimes - nd

43 - Laws, Admisitration of Justice - nd

44 - Markets and Food Supply - nd

45 - Public Health - nd

46 - Medicine Hospitals - nd

47 - Transport, Communication, Traffic Problems - nd

48 - Education, Teaching and Teachers, History and Description of Schools, - nd

49 - Other Services (Gas, Electricity) - nd

50 - Culture in Birmingham - nd

51 - Literary Associations - nd

52 - Literary Associations (Birmingham and Midland Writers Only) - nd

53 - Libraries - nd

2; 222399 - Report upon the Kings Norton Parish Library, founded by Rev. T. Hall, curate of Kings Norton (1610-1665) and loaned in 1894 to the Birmingham Reference Library. 5pp. 1894. BRASSINGTON (WILLIAM SALT) F.S.A. - 1894

2; 305466 - A Parish library. Report upon the Kings Norton Parish Library, founded by Rev. T. Hall, curate of Kings Norton (1610-1665) and loaned in 1894 to the Birmingham Reference Library. From The Bookworm, 1894. BRASSINGTON (WILLIAM SALT) F.S.A. - 1894

2; 661659 - Dr. [Thomas] Bray's lending libraries. - 1875

3; 169427 - List of duplicate books in the Birmingham Free Libraries available for exchange. 10pp. 1890. Libraries (Free Public) (Municipal), Books and Pamphlets on the Libraries. - 1890

3; 172546 - The Birmingham Free Libraries. A paper read before the Library Association. (Aberdeen) 27pp. 1902. *SHAW (ALFRED CAPEL) Chief Librarian, Birmingham Public Libraries, 1898 - 1912. - 1902

3; 199388 - Our Public Lending Libraries. From The Central Literary Magazine, Volume 18. 1907. *CLARKE (HENRY). - 1907

3; 306060 - Report of visits to provincial free library. Including those at Handsworth and Birmingham. July 1887. 16pp. 1887. RELTON (FREDERIC). - 1887

3; 307101 - Postcards illustrating the Birmingham Public Libraries and some of the valuable contents of the Reference Library. 1923. Postcards. - 1923

3; 311093 - Papers read at the Birmingham meeting of the Library Association, 1887. From The Library Chronicle. Vol. 5. 1888. - 1888

3; 384754 - Pearson (H.S.) Books and the worth of them. With references to the Birmingham Public Libraries. A lecture delivered at Hanley, February 15th 1883. (Hanley) 9pp. 1883. Libraries (Free Public) (Municipal), Books and Pamphlets on the Libraries. - 1883

3; 474685 - La Bibliothèque publique de Birmingham. From Bulletin de la Societé d'Histoire et de Sciences Naturelles de Mulhouse, 1935-6. (Mulhouse) 1936. WEBER (MARIE LOUISE). - 1936

3; 477997 - Famous libraries. No. 4. Birmingham. From Fiction for Library Readers. Vol. 1. 1938. Libraries (Free Public) (Municipal), Books and Pamphlets on the Libraries. - 1938

3; 662104 - Birmingham Public Libraries, 1861-1961 : open access. Vol. IX. New Series, No. 3. April 1961. - 1961

06; 311071 - On the present aspect of the question - who was the inventor of printing (Coster or Gutenberg)? : being a paper read at the meeting of the Library Association of the United Kingdom, at Birmingham, September 20-23 1887. 8pp. Privately printed 1887. BLADES (WILLIAM). - 1887

06; 662562 - Aslib Midlands Branch Conference : library services as an aid to productivity : Birmingham Dec. 1962. - 1963

06; 663020 - Programme [of the] Birmingham International Summer School of Librarianship held under the auspices of the Birmingham and District Branch of the Library Association and the British Council, 31st August-12th September 1959. - 1959

8; 12539 - Protestant Association of Birmingham and neighbourhood. Rules and catalogue of the library. 24pp. 1864. - 1864

8; 258984 - A catalogue of books in the circulating and reference libraries of the Church of the Saviour Teachers' Association. 16pp. 1862. Church of the Saviour. - 1862

08; 381868 - Circulars; Rules; Minutes, Nos. 107 (October 1931) – . Typescript etc. 1931 – NOTE - Minute Nos. 1 – 106 not issued. Regional Library Bureau (West Midlands). - 1931

09; 68218 - Free Libraries and Museums. Conference of representatives of municipal corporations, held in Birmingham, 1877. 15pp. 1877. Libraries and Museums (Free), Conference on, 1877. - 1877

09; 662559 - Week end conference, Birmingham/Oxford, April 1963 : [programme]. - 1963

11; 29057 - The Birmingham Library. Privileges of proprietors and subscribers, laws, and list of proprietors. 20pp. 1881. Libraries : The Birmingham Library (The Old Library) to 1955. - 1881

11; 68449 - The Birmingham Library. Reprinted from A Century of Birmingham life. 15pp. 1868. *LANGFORD (JOHN ALFRED). - 1868

11; 190690 - A letter to George Croft occasioned by his address to the proprietors of the Birmingham Library, by a Propriertor. 12pp. 1803. Libraries : The Birmingham Library (The Old Library) to 1955. - 1803

11; 256413 - An address to the proprietors of the Birmingham Library. 14pp. 1803. *CROFT (GEORGE). - 1803

11; 256414 - An address to the proprietors of the Birmingham Library, on the funds, with remarks on the Address by Dr. Croft. 12pp. 1803. HARRIS (THOMAS). - 1803

11; 334494 - The Birmingham Library. An address broadcast from Birmingham (5 IT) on January 18th 1927. 6pp. 1927. *VINCE (CHARLES ANTHONY). - 1927

11; 359481 - Copy of the Birmingham Library Tontine Deed (1798) with a schedule of the several shares in numerical order. 38pp. 1799. Libraries : The Birmingham Library (The Old Library) to 1955. - 1799

11; 517931 - Birmingham Library. List of books missing from the Birmingham Library, July 16th 1810. 3pp. 1810. Libraries : The Birmingham Library (The Old Library) to 1955. - 1810

11; 518454 - Laws of the Birmingham Library, passed at a special general meeting of proprietors. January 10th 1910. 12pp. 1910. Libraries : The Birmingham Library (The Old Library) to 1955. - 1910

11; 520456 - Birmingham New Library. Report 1846; 1847. - 1847

11; 661339 - Laws of the library passed at an Extraordinary General Meeting of proprietors held on 8th October, 1954. - 1954

31 Missing 1993; 68508 - Speech in the Birmingham Town Council, on the resolution to open the Public Art Gallery and Free Reference Library on Sundays. (National Sunday League) 30pp. 1872. COLLINGS (Rt. Hon. JESSE) M.P.. - 1872

31; 31185 - The Sunday Question again. Shall the Free Libraries and the Art Gallery be open on Sunday? 12pp. 1871. Art Gallery and Museum (Municipal). - 1871

31; 59894 - Borough of Birmingham report of Free Libraries and Industrial Museums Committee for presentation [to] the Council 5th April, 1881 [on the selection of objects of art for the Art Gallery, etc.]. - 1881

31; 59896 - Free Libraries. Opening of the Central Free Libraries. June 1st, 1882. Programme of proceedings. For use of Free Libraries Committee only. 10pp. 1882. Libraries (Free Public) (Municipal), Books and Pamphlets on the Libraries. - 1882

31; 68508 - Collings (Jesse) Speech in the Birmingham Town Council, on the resolution to open the Public Art Gallery, and Free Reference Library, on Sundays. (National Sunday League) 20pp. 1872. Libraries (Free Public) (Municipal), Books and Pamphlets on the Libraries. - 1872

31; 210167 - Brief hand list of the Cervantes Collections, presented to the Birmingham Free Library by W. Bragge. 15pp. 1874 NOTE :- The Cervantes collection was destroyed in the fire of 1879. BRAGGE (WILLIAM) Works relating to. - 1879

31; 229577 - Sketches of (Birmingham) city life by Leslie Keen (pseud). copy of Number 2 ‘The Library’ 1893.. GRIFFIN (FRANCIS ARTHUR).

31; 229597 - Griffin (F.A.) "The Library" by Leslie Keen. (Sketches of City Life. No. 2) 20pp. 1893. Libraries (Free Public) (Municipal), Books and Pamphlets on the Libraries. - 1893

31; 278906 - Birmingham Public Libraries. Handbook to the Commercial Library. With a brief note on the Patents Library. Illus. 24pp. 1919. Libraries (Free Public) (Municipal), Books and Pamphlets on the Libraries. - 1919

31; 308044 - Birmingham Public Libraries. The Lantern slides collection. Brief description of over 10,000 lantern slides available for loan. 15pp. 1923. Libraries (Free Public) (Municipal), Books and Pamphlets on the Libraries. - 1923

31; 318097 - Birmingham Public Libraries. The Lantern slides collection. Brief description of over 10,000 lantern slides available for loan. 2nd edition. 16pp. 1924. Libraries (Free Public) (Municipal), Books and Pamphlets on the Libraries. - 1924

31; 405547 - Column-special. Short story relating to Birmingham Reference Library. From Jewish World, May 25th 1933. STONE (JOHN). - 1933

31; 563094 - The city of Birmingham Public Libraries. - 1945

31; 627608 - Local archives of Great Britain. No. 5 : the Birmingham Reference Library. - 1951

32; 3166 - Central Lending Department. 1867; 1869; 1872; 1876; 1881; 1883 (Supplement); 1885; 1889; 1894; 1897 (Supplement); 1900; 1902 (Supplement); 1906; 1910. 1867 etc.. Libraries (Free Public) (Municipal), Catalogues: Departmental. - 1867-1910

32; 375764 - The Future of the central lending department in big centres (mainly about Birmingham Central Lending Department). Revised from a paper read at the Joint Conference of the Northern and Midland Branches of the Library Association held at Morecambe, 23rd May, 1930. 6pp. 1930. *BURTON (GEORGE LAWRENCE). - 1930

32; 399736 - Acock's Green Branch Library, Birmingham. From The Builder. Vol. 143. Illus. 1932. Libraries (Free Public) (Municipal), Books and Pamphlets on the Libraries. - 1932

32; 521448 - A collection of photographs of King's Norton Branch Library. 8pp. 1940. TONKS (JAMES PHILIP). - 1940

32; 663217 - Opening [brochure] 24th February, 1967. - 1967

061; 145206 - Books before printing : [paper] read at meeting of the Library Association, 1887. - 1888

061; 278908 - Birmingham and District Library Association Conference held at Birmingham, 2nd May 1919. From The Library Association Record. 1919. Library Association (Birmingham and District). - 1919

061; 785366 - Library services to hospitals and handicapped people : [a report of the sub-committee on library provision for hospitals and handicapped people]. - 1970

062; 660041 - Sixth annual weekend conference : "Selling the library service, publicity and public relations" : Birmingham [April] 1955. - 1955

301; 218462 - What shall I read? (City of Birmingham Free Libraries) 39pp. 1909. *SHAW (ALFRED CAPEL) Chief Librarian, Birmingham Public Libraries, 1898 - 1914. - 1909

301; 552902 - A selection of books on Russia available for consultation in the Birmingham Reference Library / [prepared by the City Librarian with the co-operation of the Birmingham Office of the British Council]. - 1944

301; 660735 - Romanzi Italiani : a select list of modern Italian novels in the Central Lending library. - 1956

311; 31369 - Catalogue of the Shakespeare Memorial Library, Birmingham. 2 parts. (English only) 1872-6. *MULLINS (JOHN DAVIES) Chief Librarian, Birmingham Public Libraries, 1865 –. - 1872-1876

311; 191619 - Catalogue of the Shakespeare Memorial Library, Birmingham. 2 parts. (English only) 1872-6. *MULLINS (JOHN DAVIES) Chief Librarian, Birmingham Public Libraries, 1865 –.

311; 301876 - Catalogue of the Birmingham Shakespeare Memorial Library. 18pp. 1869. *MULLINS (JOHN DAVIES) Chief Librarian, Birmingham Public Libraries, 1865 –. - 1869

311; 627607 - The Shakespeare Memorial Library : [a brief description]. - 1951

311; 660434 - The Shakespeare Memorial Library : [a brief description]. - 1955

95831 - Special collections of books in and near Birmingham. Read at the Birmingham meeting of the Library Association 1887. 8pp. 1888. TIMMINS (SAMUEL) F.S.A.. - 1888

54 - Fine Arts, artists, Printing, Sculpture - nd

55 - Music - nd

56 - Architecture in Birmingham - nd

57 - Public Buildings - nd

58 - Domestic Architecture, Household Effecrs, Gardens - nd

59 - Other Cutural Activities - nd

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60 - Economic History and Theory - nd

61 - Industrial Organisation - nd

62 - Commerce, Commercial Interests - nd

63 - Finance, Banking, Public Finance - nd

64 - Trades and Manufactures - nd

65 - Engineering and Technology - nd

66 - Chemical and Allied Industries - nd

67 - Manufactures - nd

68 - Specialised Trades and Craftys - nd

69 - Other Industries - nd

70 - History: Sources - nd

71 - History: General - nd

72 - History: Before the Conquest - nd

73 - Histories of Specific Periods - nd

74 - Relations with Foreign Countires. Colonial Relations - nd

75 - Military, Naval and Air History - nd

76 - Political History - nd

77 - Geneaology, Heraldry - nd

78 - Biography - nd

79 - Collections of Portraits, Catalogues of Portraits - nd

80 - Topography and description - nd

81 - Birmingham as described by foreign travellers - nd

82 - Vestiges of Old Birmingham and Midlands - nd

83 - Guides to Birmiongham and Surrounding Country - nd

84 - Maps and Plans - nd

85 - Views, Prospects, Panoramas - nd

86 - Improvement Schemes to 1939 - nd

87 - Reconstruction and Redevelopment: 1940s onwards - 1940

88 - Conservation, Environment - nd

89 - Particular streets and localites - nd

90 - Parishes - nd

91 - Suburbs and Districs in Warwickshire - nd

92 - Suburbs and Districts transferred from Worcestershie - nd

93 - Suburbs and Districts transferred from Stafforsdhire - nd

94 - Herefordshire - nd

95 - Shropshire - nd

96 - Staffordshire - nd

97 - Warwickshire - nd

98 - Worcesrtershire - nd

99 - West Midlands, Black Country - nd

pp - Large pamphlets - nd

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