Bristol Archives

• News / museums

  Opposition mounts to possible closure of museums

  The proposals are to close the Red Lodge, the Georgian House and Blaise Museum

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• News / museums

  Three museums could close due to council cost-cutting

  If they go ahead, the drastic options would be a body-blow to Bristol's museums

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• 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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