history

• Features / Audio tour

  ‘The history of a place is part of who you are, whether you know it or not’

  Bristol's first audio map allows visitors and locals to learn about the city's rich history

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• News / history

  New lease of life for fire damaged historic church in Bristol

  St Michael on the Mount Without Church will be transformed into a museum and events venue

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• News / suffragettes

  Blue plaque for Bristol’s suffrage pioneers

  ‘They never gave up in the face of discouragement, apathy and hostility’

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• Features / history

  Saving Bristol’s heritage

  Emma Brown from Bristol Heritage Forum is an enthusiastic amateur historian

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• News / Bristol Archives

  11 historic photographs of Bristol’s theatres

  A look at what the city's entertainment industry used to look like

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• Features / Psephology

  Bristol and the centenary of women voting and standing for Parliament

  Former Bristol West MP Stephen Williams puts on his psephology hat

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• News / LGBT History Month

  Five facts from Bristol’s hidden LGBT+ past

  A new map launched by Historic England has catalogued much of Bristol's forgotten LGBT history

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• Books / history

  The Women Who Built Bristol

  History of women who helped to shape Bristol over the last 900 years

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