UoB 125: through the Archives,
21 January - 31 December 2025
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 images relating to the history of the University of Birmingham, The Birmingham Qur'an, Black History, women in the collections, Art of Anatomy, First World War, turn of the century China, Pugin's sketches, pets in the collections, and more.
LGBTQ+ History month online exhibitions
Glad to be gay: LGBTQ+ history in the collections
Noel Coward: entertainer abroad
Henry Reed: behind the scenes
Housman siblings: artists and campaigners
Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon and Former Prime Minister
New online exhibition on CRL Flickr giving 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 Prime Minister, the Suez crisis, and retirement. Curated by Matthew Barton, Project Archivist for the Avon Papers, Cadbury Research Library. Project funded by Archives Revealed.
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. Current and forthcoming loans are on display at:
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.