The Birmingham People'S History Archive

The BPHA aims to promote education and public knowledge of West Midlands, national and international working-class history, by providing access to its resource collections and organising events, exhibitions and other public outreach activities. There are already major collections of working-class history in cities like London, Manchester, Salford, Hull and Glasgow. Birmingham is one of Britain’s great centres of industry and has a rich and distinctive working-class history deeply marked by migration into the city, particularly in the post-1945 period. In the belief that Birmingham requires its own resource for such activities, the BPHA seeks to meet this challenge while complementing the work of other institutions nationally.