Collections
There are approximately 500,000 items held at Birmingham City University Arts, Design and Media archive, spanning 40 collections covering art and design, photography, education, music, media, jewellery, architecture and fashion.
They range in size from less than fifty items to over 40,000 and contain paper documents and books as well as artworks, designs, posters, photographs and slides. Thirteen collections have been catalogued to date.
School of Art Archive
This collection includes books, student records, programmes and photographs that document the history of the School.
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Public Arts Commissions Agency
The Public Arts Commissions Agency (PACA) was formed in 1987 as an educational charity for public art, art projects and research.
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Marion Richardson Collection
Marion Richardson was an influential art teacher and pioneer of the child art movement. Find out more about the collection.
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Larry Cartoon Collection
Larry Parkes was a cartoonist and illustrator, the collection contains cartoons on the subject of art and art galleries.
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The Craftsman’s Club Collection
The Craftsman’s Club was a group founded in 1902 by Robert Catterson-Smith, Headmaster of the School of Art from 1903 to 1920.
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Margaret Street Restoration Project
The collection contains documents and colour photographs that document the progress of the restoration of the School of Art in 1994-1995.
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Margaret Street Centenary Folio
The collection is made up of 12 unframed original art prints by members of staff of the School of Fine Art.
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Birmingham Billboard Project
This collection documents an art project organised by Graham Fagen, who was a member of staff at the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design.
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Hodgson Art History Collection
This collection contains files and papers produced by Frank Hodgson as a teacher at the Birmingham College of Arts and Crafts.
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Bowater Family Collection
This collection focuses on the history of the Bowater family and the artistic development of their daughter Gertrude Ann.
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Plaster Casts Collection
This collection consists of plaster casts used for teaching in the Birmingham School of Art during the nineteenth century.
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School of Jewellery Archive
Recently the ADM Archive has acquired a collection of 1000 medals that were found in the vault at the School of Jewellery.
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Phil Miller Collection
The Phil Miller Collection comprises mostly of his compositional work, LPs, CDs, and other ephemerals related to his artistic career.
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Pete James Collection
The Pete James collection includes his personal library of books, catalogues of exhibitions by contemporary photographers, and periodicals on photography.
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National Jazz Archive Satellite Collection
The National Jazz Archive Satellite Collection is a treasure trove for jazz enthusiasts, professionals, and researchers.
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Barbara Webster Collection
The Barbara Webster Collection contains over 250 items related to the work of the Women’s Unit between 1984 and 1988.
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Historical Dress Collection
The collection contains a range of historical dress, with the earliest item a pair of shoes with buckles that date from 1775 and the most recent a dress from the 1980s.
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NME magazine Collection
The Ian Edmond Collection at ADM Archive contains 943 issues of NME dating from 1984 to 2005.
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Letters from Back A Yard Collection
This collection is a growing digital archive charting the personal experience of the Caribbean migrants who came to live and work in Britain from the 1940’s to the end of the 1980s.
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Ron Davis Collection
Ronald Davis (1920-1996) was a typographer and labour councillor. The collection contains material relating to Ron Davis’ political and professional careers.
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Digbrew Collection
The Dig Brew Collection contains extensive branding material from the company, including items relating to the beer they brewed in the form of beer tins, beer labels and pipe clips.
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Phil Howitt Collection
This collection contains the complete run of Facelift a music fanzine that ran for 19 issues from 1989 to 1998.
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Herman Wilson Collection
Herman Herrington Wilson was a Jamaican-born trombonist, band leader, arranger, composer, and educator. The collection comprises most of his compositional work.
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Art Education Collection
Material dates from the 1950s to the 1980s, including administrative records, finance, Government publications and responses, staff appointments and student admissions, resources produced by staff and artworks.
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Public Monuments and Sculpture Collection
Much of this collection is made up of photographs and slides of public sculpture and monuments in Midlands counties.
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Diploma in Professional Studies in Education Collection
The collection contains administrative records relating to the running of the course during the 1980s and 1990s.
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Bournville School of Art Collection
The collection includes documentary material including prospectuses dating from 1919-20 to 1982-83, course brochures, exhibition catalogues and student artwork.
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David Massey Collection
David Massey is the award winning West-Midlands based author of the young adult novels: Taken, Torn and Bone Surfers, and alumni of Birmingham City University.
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The Film Fanzine Collection
This collection contains 110 issues of the magazine Video Watchdog dating from 1990 to 2012.
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Sir Charles Chadwyck-Healy Collection
This collection covers topics such as the BBC, Broadcast Theory and Practice, Television, Radio, Media Biographies, and Reports and Reviews from 1925 to 1980.
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Michael Gibbs Collection
The collection contains scores for his music, documents relating to his tours and career, recordings, reviews of and articles about his work, as well as extensive photography of himself, his performances and of his fellow musicians.
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Thomas Bradbury Collection
Documentation relating to Thomas Bradbury's education, photographs of his silversmith work, designs for items and an example of a finished piece.
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Graham Collier Collection
A variety of items related to Graham Colliers life and career. Approximately half of the collection are music scores while the rest relates to his personal life and career.
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Brian Homer Collection
A full set of Grapevine and Broadside Magazines together with a copy of Brum Book, founded by Brian Homer.
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World of Interiors Magazine Collection
197 World of Interiors magazines which date from 1984 until 2015 including a largely complete run from 1984 until 1998 with a more erratic selection of issues between 1998-2015.
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Private Eye Magazine
A collection holding 147 Private Eye magazines which range from 2018 to 2024.
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