Bristol Archives

• Features / LGBTQ+

  Historic document reveals tragic story of executed gay couple

  The rare witness statement from 1752 is on show at Bristol Archives

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• Social History / Ashton Court Mansion

  Collective experimental history-making project ‘Haunting Ashton Court’ launches book

  The book has been called “part map, part torch, part shadow”

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• Social History / Ashton Court Mansion

  Artists and young people collaborate on project to awaken the forgotten and untold stories of Ashton Court

  The work culminates in an evening of performance at the Mansion on January 26

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• Pubs and Bars / Features

  This small Bristol road once had almost 40 pubs

  Inns and alehouses proliferated in the city centre in the mid-18th century

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• Features / history

  What did Bristol’s centre used to look like?

  From flowers to fountains and toilets to trams

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• Film / Bristol Archives

  Rare chance to hear audio of Black voices from Bristol’s past

  'As much as there is pain, there is joy and aspiration too in every voice'

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• Features / old photos

  17 historic photos from the Bristol blitz

  A look into the devastating aftermath of the Blitz on Bristol

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• Features / old photos

  15 historic photographs of Downend

  See how much Downend has changed in the last 100 years

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