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We preserve and share the records of the 14 King Edward VI schools in Birmingham, with records dating back to 1382. To find out more visit our website: https://kingedwardvifoundation.co.uk/archive
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Wishing everyone an eggs-cellent Easter break, perhaps involving some farmyard fun #HappyEaster 🐣

📷 Longdon Hall, Staffordshire, where KEVI Aston students spent one term away (1945-1975) to gain an understanding of agricultural work and country life. Read more here: tinyurl.com/34vv5y66
Black and white photograph of a donkey, goat, and chickens on a farm, with a brick outbuilding, water trough, and tree in the background. Black and white photograph of donkeys, a goat with a cheeky smile, and chickens on a farm, with a brick outbuilding, water trough, and tree in the background.
April 11, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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She resigned shortly afterwards, becoming an Assistant Organiser for the Birmingham branch of the WSPU, and the following year boycotted her 1911 census return. 3/3 #WomensHistoryMonth
1911 census form with "Votes for Women; No Vote No Census" written across the section that should have had people's details entered. Gladys Hazel's name and address is in the bottom right corner.
March 7, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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At one WSPU demonstration she smashed windows in the West End of London, which landed her in Holloway prison alongside Pankhurst and Emily Davison. Our Governor's minutes note that she was absent from work to attend protests, and that the cost of hiring cover would be docked from her pay. 2/3
Printed extract from the Governor Order Books, 30 Nov 1910, explaining that Hazel has been absent from teaching duties to attend WSPU demonstrations in London.
March 7, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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For #InternationalWomensDay tomorrow, we’re highlighting Gladys Hazel, an English teacher at Aston Girls' School, 1905-1910. After witnessing the poverty in the Birmingham slums and hearing Emmeline Pankhurst speak at Birmingham Town Hall, she became a suffragette. 1/3
Black and white photo of Gladys Hazel standing in a garden. She's wearing a smock top, her hair is up, and she looks somewhere to the left of the camera. Gladys Hazel's typed entry in the Aston staff register, giving details about her education, employment, and salary.
March 7, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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A very well-behaved pooch sitting still for a photo, alongside its owner Thomas Townsend. 🐶

The photo features on a programme for a school reunion on 13th May 1905, to celebrate Townsend's 81st birthday. He was Headmaster of a KEVI Foundation elementary school for 30 years. #LoveYourPetDay
Front cover of a programme with a portrait photograph in the centre, showing Townsend wearing a suit, seated, and a Jack Russell type dog sat on a table to his left.
February 20, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Love is in the air, and does anyone feel it as keenly as teenage girls? 💘 Here's a poem printed in the Handsworth Girls' School magazine in 1937 about "facially-perfect" Robert Taylor, an American film star. #ValentinesDay #SchoolArchives
Printed poem entitled "To the photograph of a facially-perfect film star", by Evelyn Whitelegg, Form VI A, Nightinghale house. Black and white photograph of Robert Taylor, taken by Eric Carpenter in 1946. Taylor has dark, slicked back hair and a thin moustache. He is looking over towards the right of the camera, and one hand is to the left of his face with a watch visible on his wrist.
February 14, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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It's International Day of Women and Girls in Science 🧪 Here's a totally candid shot of KEVI High School for Girls pupils in a Chemistry lesson, 1949.
Black and white photograph of pupils in a chemistry lab, wearing coats and holding test tubes. Front row shows four pupils, two looking at their work, and two looking at one another. Other pupils in the row behind look over towards them.
February 11, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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Photograph of the King Edward's School Cadet Corps outside the school on New Street, 4th April 1907. Can anyone spot a young JRR Tolkien?
Large black-and-white group photograph of Cadets in uniform, standing or sitting in four rows in front of two large columns.
January 30, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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New year, new socials account, new catalogues! Four more of our schools (Handsworth Boys', Handsworth Girls', Handsworth Wood Girls' Academy, and Sheldon Heath Academy) now have catalogues available online: kevi.epexio.com 🥳

📷 Page from an unnamed student's textiles work, ref SH/G3/1
Page from textiles coursework, with a painting of a woman wearing a red suit with skirt and a black sweater, bag, gloves and shoes. To the left is a written description of the outfit, pattern and materials, and beneath that are two swatches of material, one black and one red.
January 13, 2025 at 3:58 PM