by WRA Admin | Feb 25, 2022 | Archives, Capuchin Friars, Father Mathew, Ireland, Temperance Crusade, Uncategorised, WRA Blog
The British Women’s Temperance Association (BWTA) archive includes a collection of glass lantern slides including an illustrated image of Father Theobald Mathew (right), an Irish Priest and teetotalist reformer and President of Cork Total Abstinence Society formed in...
by WRA Admin | Jan 28, 2022 | Archives, Birmingham Temperance Hall, Birmingham Temperance Society, WRA Blog
Alongside our archive collection of the British Women’s Temperance Association (BWTA), we also hold records for the Birmingham Temperance Society (BTS), dating back to the formation of the society in 1830. Members of one temperance organisation were often linked to...
by WRA Admin | Dec 2, 2021 | Archives, HSE, Match Factory, Salvation Army, WRA Blog
I can’t quite believe that we are already into December, yet here we are with Christmas on the horizon. I thought it might be interesting to take a jump backwards in time and have a look what was being reported during the month of December in some of the old...
by WRA Admin | Oct 25, 2021 | 1876, Archives, BWTA, History, WRA Blog
Mrs Scholefield – Founding member During recent work on the collection of glass magic lantern slides held in our archives, I have come across some new images from the early years of the BWTA. Images like the one below featuring Mrs Scholefield (seated), bring...
by WRA Admin | Oct 15, 2021 | 1861, Archives, Band of Hope Review, Black History Month 2021, Slavery, WRA Blog
In support of Black History Month October 2021, we are sharing the account of a man named Lewis Smith who came to England from America in the 1860’s. This is the real story of how the abomination of slavery tore families apart but also how ‘….the energy, self-denial,...
by WRA Admin | Jul 12, 2021 | Archives, National Fitness Campaign, Olympics, Wellbeing, WRA Blog
The UK is facing a fitness drive following lock down and Covid. In the year of the Olympics in Japan and the Euros (Football tournament) 2021, we take a step back in time and look at a previous ‘Fitness Campaign’ that the UK Government ran in the 1930’s. In July...
