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  1. Whitworth Wallis Fellowship: Taking The Collection Into The Digital

    23 April 2024
  2. Front view of a car dating from 1927 on display with glass railings around it.

    Lanchester Car Honoured With Engineering Heritage Award

    8 April 2024
  3. A black and yellow insect with its wings open on a green leaf.

    Living Jewels at Weoley Castle

    4 April 2024
  4. A side view of golden coloured moth.

    Why are moths attracted to light?

    26 February 2024
  5. Black and white photo of a lady (Steve Shirley) sitting working with computer machinery to the side and behind.

    A Programming Pioneer

    9 February 2024
  6. A man in an electric wheelchair sits in an room surrounded by art supplies and wooden draws and storage.

    Callout for Stories from the Disabled Community of Colour

    29 January 2024
  7. A pen drawing with black and brown ink over of pencil. It depicts two figures, one is lying with eyes closed with a harp is his lap. The other figure is behind and is playing the harp.

    Queering the Birmingham Collections

    14 December 2023
  8. A full length painting of a female in a room. She is wearing a green, yellow and purple robe in layers. She holds a dragon shaped lamp in front her with flames spouting out of it.

    Victorian Radicals

    11 December 2023
  9. Design on paper for a stained-glass window with two panels and a small trefoil above. The left panel shows Christ as a child he is teaching a group of people, with Mary and Joseph in the background. The right panel shows the adult Christ blessing a group of young children. There are angels at the top and bottom of each panel and in the trefoil.

    Stained Glass Designs by John Hardman & Co.

    22 November 2023
  10. Black and white photo of Pogus Caesar and Benjamin Zephaniah standing looking at camera.

    Film premiere looks at 1985 Handsworth Riots

    21 August 2023
  11. There is a vertical neon light in four parts. The words in the lights read We Must Not Be Extreme.

    We Must Not Be Extreme

    17 August 2023
  12. An abstract surrealist painting.

    Birmingham’s Sites of Surrealism

    26 July 2023