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Slide designed by Jason Hilton, Rob MacKenzie, Andrew Plackett, Bruno Barcante Ladvocat Cintra, Sabrine Dhaouadi and Chantal Jackson for the Trees in time 2023 Annual Meeting of the Birmingham institute of Forest Research (BIFoR). Palaeontologial timescales incorporate the concepts of time-averaging...
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Slide designed by Jason Hilton, Rob MacKenzie, Andrew Plackett, Bruno Barcante Ladvocat Cintra, Sabrine Dhaouadi and Chantal Jackson for the Trees in time 2023 Annual Meeting of the Birmingham institute of Forest Research (BIFoR). Palaeontologial timescales incorporate the concepts of time-averaging developed by S.M. Kidwell and colleagues.

Median Joining Network for ECM John as of 31 October 2017 (excluding witnesses <85% extant) Created using Network from http://www.fluxus-engineering.com/sharenet.htm (See Bandelt, H. J., P. Forster, and A. Rohl. ‘Median-Joining Networks for Inferring Intraspecific Phylogenies’. Molecular Biology ...
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Median Joining Network for ECM John as of 31 October 2017 (excluding witnesses <85% extant) Created using Network from http://www.fluxus-engineering.com/sharenet.htm (See Bandelt, H. J., P. Forster, and A. Rohl. ‘Median-Joining Networks for Inferring Intraspecific Phylogenies’. Molecular Biology and Evolution 16, no. 1 (1 January 1999): 37–48. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a026036.)

Sunrise above the clouds at Mount Wilson Observatory in California marks First Light on a new automated solar telescope. The image shows a new robotic mount installed at the top of the observatory 60-foot tower, where two telescopes capture light from the Sun. The telescope on the right houses a cam...
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Sunrise above the clouds at Mount Wilson Observatory in California marks First Light on a new automated solar telescope. The image shows a new robotic mount installed at the top of the observatory 60-foot tower, where two telescopes capture light from the Sun. The telescope on the right houses a camera using intelligent machine vision to guide the mount following the movement of the Sun. The telescope on the left transmits sunlight along an optical fibre into a solar spectrometer in the observing room below. The system measures solar oscillations – sound waves that pass through the very core of the Sun and reveal the secrets of its deep interior that would otherwise be hidden behind the bright solar surface.

Images of ephemera and artefacts from mass reading events. The items were collected for the AHRC-funded project ‘Beyond the Book: Mass Reading Events and Contemporary Cultures of Reading in the UK, USA and Canada’, (2005-2008, grant number: 112166). Beyond the Book (BTB) was a trans-Atlantic co...
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Images of ephemera and artefacts from mass reading events. The items were collected for the AHRC-funded project ‘Beyond the Book: Mass Reading Events and Contemporary Cultures of Reading in the UK, USA and Canada’, (2005-2008, grant number: 112166). Beyond the Book (BTB) was a trans-Atlantic collaborative interdisciplinary research project that analysed mass reading events and the contemporary meanings of reading in the UK, the USA and Canada. The project holds supporting materials from the events such as promotional flyers, posters and guides collected from nine reading events. There is a list of all items held by the project, and photographs of selected items. The items were produced mostly between 2001 and 2007. http://www.beyondthebookproject.org/

The Big Read, Birmingham Book Festival, Bristol's Great Reading Adventure, Canada Reads, Liverpool Reads, National Endowment for the Arts , One Book, One Community, One Book One Chicago, One Book, One...
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The Big Read, Birmingham Book Festival, Bristol's Great Reading Adventure, Canada Reads, Liverpool Reads, National Endowment for the Arts , One Book, One Community, One Book One Chicago, One Book, One Huntsville, One Book, One Vancouver, Richard and Judy's Book Club, Small Island Read, Seattle Reads Books and reading--Canada, Books and reading--England, Books and reading—Research, Books and reading--Sociological aspects, Books and reading --Great Britain, Books and reading--United States, Book clubs (Discussion groups) --United States, Book clubs (Discussion groups) --Canada, Book clubs (Discussion groups) --Great Britain, Library outreach programs--United States, Library outreach programs--Canada, Library outreach programs--Great Britain, Literature and society--United States, Literature and society--Canada, Literature and society--Great Britain, Reading groups, Reading interests, Reading programs--Great Britain, Reading programs (Literacy), Reading promotion, Reading promotion—Canada, Reading promotion--European Union countries--Congresses, Reading promotion--United States, Reading public, Reading public (Library users)

The Orchard Learning Resources Centre in the University of Birmingham possesses a rubbing of this famous monument of Chinese Christian history which was made directly from the stele in the 1920s. This is a composite photograph of this rubbing made in 2008. This limestone stele (about ten feet h...
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The Orchard Learning Resources Centre in the University of Birmingham possesses a rubbing of this famous monument of Chinese Christian history which was made directly from the stele in the 1920s. This is a composite photograph of this rubbing made in 2008. This limestone stele (about ten feet high) was discovered in the sixteenth century after it had been buried and lost for about 800 years. Today the monument is housed in the "Forest of Tablets" in Shaanxi Provincial Museum (formerly a Confucian Temple) in Xi'an. The monument was erected in 781 C.E. to commemorate the first coming of Christianity to China in the year 635 C.E. Arriving through the 5,000-mile Silk Road that linked ancient Antioch and metropolitan Changan (today Xi’an), the first Christians were essentially traders from Persia belonging to the Church of the East. They became known as “Nestorians”, a pejorative name given to them by other Christians who regarded themselves as being more orthodox. The monument tells about the penetrating “illuminous religion” which began in Daqin (the Great Mediterranean), as opposed to Zoroastrianism, which had also come to Changan. It describes basic Christian doctrines: the “three mystery body” (trinity), the creation, the fall, the virgin birth, the holy books (of the bible), and practices such as the “holy mystery” (eucharist) and names of religious leaders, especially “Alopen” who was its Persian “missionary”. Names of priests and monks are listed in Syriac. The text ends with a hymn of praise. The inscription also tells about the favourable treatment that the Nestorians received from Tai Zong (627-649 C.E.), the Tang emperor who himself constituted a Board of Rites (analogous to the Bureau of Religious Affairs today), approving this foreign religion. Emperor Tai Zong even granted land to the Nestorians and helped them build a monastery to which twenty-one newly ordained priests were attached. In essence, what the stele conveys is that the followers of this foreign religion are good people who will not harm or threaten the Chinese way of life. They should be allowed to exist. Largely dependent on imperial patronage, Nestorian Christianity did not survive the several dynastic changes ofter the Tang (618-906 C.E.). Credits The project to digitise the rubbing was led by Dr Roderic L. Mullen and Edmond Tang. The images were prepared by Dr Mullen and Dr Hugh Houghton. We are very grateful to Dorothy Vuong of the Orchard Learning Centre. The text of this abstract has been adapted from a description by Franklin J. Woo, written in 1996.

Photograph of the Norman motte and bailey castle in Castle Bromwich, Warwickshire, in particular the motte and part of the bailey, from the south. In the background, Ketton cement mixer and the Concorde Tower (flats) in Tangmere Drive, Castle Vale. To the left, Tame Valley industrial belt. The photo...
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Photograph of the Norman motte and bailey castle in Castle Bromwich, Warwickshire, in particular the motte and part of the bailey, from the south. In the background, Ketton cement mixer and the Concorde Tower (flats) in Tangmere Drive, Castle Vale. To the left, Tame Valley industrial belt. The photograph was taken in late 1968.

Photograph of the Tame Valley, with Chester Road and Bridge Road in Castle Vale. Large works can be seen: Wimpey Works on the left, Marsh and Baxter factory by the river, Ketton Cement for a new estate. In the centre in the background is the station. The tower block on the right is Concorde Tower in...
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Photograph of the Tame Valley, with Chester Road and Bridge Road in Castle Vale. Large works can be seen: Wimpey Works on the left, Marsh and Baxter factory by the river, Ketton Cement for a new estate. In the centre in the background is the station. The tower block on the right is Concorde Tower in Tangmere Drive. The photograph was taken in late 1968.

Photograph of the Warwick Canal in the Tyseley Industrial Area, built c.1795. In c.1929 the Warwick Canal became part of the Grand Union Canal, which was formed from an amalgamation of many of the different canal companies at that time. The view is east from King's Road Bridge. The factory depicted ...
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Photograph of the Warwick Canal in the Tyseley Industrial Area, built c.1795. In c.1929 the Warwick Canal became part of the Grand Union Canal, which was formed from an amalgamation of many of the different canal companies at that time. The view is east from King's Road Bridge. The factory depicted is Tyseley Metals (non-ferrous metals). The photograph was taken in late 1968.

Photograph of Five Ways House, Islington Road, Five Ways, from Bath Row. Built in 1956/57, it housed c. 1000 employees in offices of various Ministries (Technology, Health, Home and Local Government, Department of Employment, Production, Board of Trade, Department of Education and Science), as well ...
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Photograph of Five Ways House, Islington Road, Five Ways, from Bath Row. Built in 1956/57, it housed c. 1000 employees in offices of various Ministries (Technology, Health, Home and Local Government, Department of Employment, Production, Board of Trade, Department of Education and Science), as well as West Midlands Regional Offices (Ministry of Public Buildings and Works Headquarter).

Photograph of number 178, Bradford Street, a late 18th century/ early nineteenth century house (ie. pre 1817), which in 1968 housed H.E. Empson, tea and coffee specialists, established in 1911. On the right Holy Trinity Church (1820/22), designed by Francis Goodwin. The photograph was taken in late ...
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Photograph of number 178, Bradford Street, a late 18th century/ early nineteenth century house (ie. pre 1817), which in 1968 housed H.E. Empson, tea and coffee specialists, established in 1911. On the right Holy Trinity Church (1820/22), designed by Francis Goodwin. The photograph was taken in late 1968.

Photograph of Bradford Street in the Rea Valley, Deritend. It was part of the late 18th century planned suburbs, begun in c. 1767, and part of the inner ring industrial belt. The viewpoint is the corner between Warner St and Bradford St, towards the city centre. On the left, "The Shepherd's Rest" pu...
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Photograph of Bradford Street in the Rea Valley, Deritend. It was part of the late 18th century planned suburbs, begun in c. 1767, and part of the inner ring industrial belt. The viewpoint is the corner between Warner St and Bradford St, towards the city centre. On the left, "The Shepherd's Rest" pub. The photograph was taken in late 1968.

Photograph of the Digbeth Branch Canal and the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal, built c. 1790, view east towards an industrial concentration in the Rea Valley. The viewpoint is the railway embankment at the Gun Barrel Proof House (on the right), near Curzon Street and Fazeley Street. The photograph was...
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Photograph of the Digbeth Branch Canal and the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal, built c. 1790, view east towards an industrial concentration in the Rea Valley. The viewpoint is the railway embankment at the Gun Barrel Proof House (on the right), near Curzon Street and Fazeley Street. The photograph was taken in late 1968.

Photograph of River Street, in the inner zone industrial area. The River Rea is situated to the left (not shown). The building on the right housed Crane's Screws (flywheel, gear) and F.B. Willmott group (coppersmiths, ""furniture"" etc). The photograph was taken in late 1968 from the corner of Flood...
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Photograph of River Street, in the inner zone industrial area. The River Rea is situated to the left (not shown). The building on the right housed Crane's Screws (flywheel, gear) and F.B. Willmott group (coppersmiths, ""furniture"" etc). The photograph was taken in late 1968 from the corner of Floodgate Street.

Photograph of Deritend High Street from Rea Crossing towards Bordesley. On the left, at the corner of Heath Mill Lane, stands the Old Crown. On the right the Haddon Stokes (screws/nuts etc.) on the site of St. John's church (1381-1947), and St. John's restaurant, in 1968, the Irish Community Centre....
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Photograph of Deritend High Street from Rea Crossing towards Bordesley. On the left, at the corner of Heath Mill Lane, stands the Old Crown. On the right the Haddon Stokes (screws/nuts etc.) on the site of St. John's church (1381-1947), and St. John's restaurant, in 1968, the Irish Community Centre. The photograph was taken in early 1968.

Photograph of the Tame Valley Canal, built in 1844, viewed from Salford Bridge, in the area between Salford, Witton and Aston. The houses are in Leamington Road. In the background the brass foundry, a derelict factory, can be seen, and works on the M1/M6 link. Barges with some coal for GEC from Meas...
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Photograph of the Tame Valley Canal, built in 1844, viewed from Salford Bridge, in the area between Salford, Witton and Aston. The houses are in Leamington Road. In the background the brass foundry, a derelict factory, can be seen, and works on the M1/M6 link. Barges with some coal for GEC from Measham can be seen. The photograph was taken in early 1968.