Caring for the Wounded:
Birmingham's World War One Military Hospitals
Talk by Martin Killeen
Friday 5 December, 13:00 - 14:00, at the Cadbury Research Library.
Marking UK Disability History Month 2025.
Email to book your free place.
UoB 125: through the Archives - until 26 June 2026
Celebrating our anniversary this exhibition features photographs of the campus, staff and students over the past 125 years.
Highlights include the 1937 Nobel Prize gold medal awarded to chemist Professor Norman Haworth, and the University's two Queen's Anniversary Prizes. Curated by Dr Helen Fisher, University Archivist, with material from the University Archives held in the Cadbury Research Library. A full version of the exhibition with extended captions is available on CRL Flickr.
Main Library Atrium. Free and open to all. Non-University ID card holders please sign in at Reception.
Online gallery
Our free, online gallery of images from our collections is available to view on Flickr. Curated albums include the history of the University of Birmingham, The Birmingham Qur'an, Black History, Women in the Collections, Art of Anatomy, First World War, Pugin's sketches, and more.
John Baskerville: 250 Years
Selected material from the CRL's John Baskerville Collection and works influenced by the legacy of the great Birmingham printer, who died 250 years ago.
Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon and Former Prime Minister
A chronological overview of Eden's life and career as seen through the Avon Papers. From his early life, WW1 service, marriage to Beatrice Beckett and 1938 resignation, to his role as Foreign Secretary during WW2, his marriage to Clarissa Churchill, time as UK Prime Minister, the 1956 Suez Crisis, and retirement. Curated by Matthew Barton, Project Archivist for the Avon Papers, Cadbury Research Library. Funded by the Archives Revealed grant programme.
The Barber Fine Art Library from the 1940s
Photographs of the much-loved, Grade 1 listed, Barber Fine Art Library from the 1940s to the present day.
Shakespeare Institute Library on Flickr
The plays we might have lost: Shakespeare's First Folio, 1623 and Marie Corelli 1855-1924 are two online exhibiton from the Shakespeare Institute Library.
CRL supported talks at The MIAH Foundation
The Cadbury Research Library is pleased to support the Islamic Arts Circle Lecture Series at The Museum of Islamic Arts & Heritage Foundation (MIAH). Keep an eye on the MIAH website for details of forthcoming events, such as workshops, exhibitions and talks, at MIAH 496 Moseley Road, Balsall Heath, and here at the Cadbury Research Library in Edgbaston.
Exhibitions elsewhere
The Cadbury Research Library lends material for inclusion in public exhibitions at other venues, locally, nationally and internationally. If your organisation would like to borrow material from the collections for exhibition, please see our loan request process. Examples of organisations we have lent material to for exhibition.