history

• News / Aerospace Bristol

  Free coach travel for schoolchildren to ‘world-class’ museum

  “We have seen first-hand how much students enjoy exploring Bristol’s rich aerospace history”

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• Features / ghost signs

  Ghosts of Bristol’s past

  Signs of times gone by are hidden in plain sight on buildings across the city

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• Features / Bristol

  We cannot erase Bristol’s history!

  Let's take a walk along Grope Cunt Lane and Whore Street to Fucking Grove

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• News / history

  Exploring the hidden histories of south Bristol neighbourhoods

  South Bristol History Festival once again returns with a free series of fascinating talks

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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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• News / Animals

  Hunt begins for burial site of 130-year-old ‘Kingswood elephant’

  Archeologists hope to find remains of the mighty animal from a Victorian travelling menagerie

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• Your say / Windrush

  ‘The Windrush Generation were tempted by streets paved with gold’

  Roger Griffith discusses the legacies of Windrush on its 75th anniversary

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• News / Colston

  New evidence unearthed into Bristol’s early involvement in slave trade

  It suggests Thomas Colston played a role in the trade decades before his relative, Edward

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