Tom Brothwell

Your Bristol Life

Listen: Old Market (REMIXED) by Tom Marshman

Your Bristol Life is a new series of five podcasts shining a light on underrepresented aspects of Bristol's history. This BCfm series was made with the Bristol Cable, Bristol History Podcast and In The Dark.

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Tom Brothwell and Marcus Smith

Your Bristol Life

Listen: Henrietta Lacks by Daniel Edmund

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Tom Brothwell and Marcus Smith

Your Bristol Life

Listen: Skate or Cry by Jazlyn Pinckney

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Tom Brothwell and Marcus Smith

Your Bristol Life

Listen: The Bristolian Refugee by Sam Sayer

Your Bristol Life is a new series of five podcasts shining a light on underrepresented aspects of Bristol's history. This BCfm series was made with the Bristol Cable, Bristol History Podcast and In The Dark.

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Tom Brothwell and Marcus Smith

Bristol History Podcast

Listen: The Bristolian poet prodigy Thomas Chatterton who died at 17

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Tom Brothwell

Bristol History Podcast

Listen: Ann Yearsley, the working class Bristol poet who took on the slave trade

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Tom Brothwell

Bristol History Podcast

Listen: Meet Bristol’s ballooning pioneer Don Cameron

Cameron Balloons created the first modern hot air balloon in Western Europe, and it has since become a beloved symbol of the city.

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Tom Brothwell

Bristol History Podcast

LISTEN: Telling the stories from Bristol LGBTQ people going back 300 years

Andrew Foyle from Outstories Bristol, a volunteer community history group, discusses the stories of LGBTQ people throughout Bristol’s history from the 17th century to the present day.

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Tom Brothwell

Bristol History Podcast

Listen: How local industry profited from the slave trade

The hidden history of how the family wealth of Edward Protheroe, famous coal industrialist in the Forest of Dean, was built on the slave trade and labour of enslaved people on sugar plantations.

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Tom Brothwell

Bristol History Podcast

Listen: Healthcare in Bristol before the NHS

This week I met with Dr Michael Whitfield to discuss Bristol's dispensaries. For the two hundred years or so before the creation of the NHS in 1948, the dispensaries were one of the main providers of healthcare in Britain, especially for its poorest people. We discussed how the dispensaries opera...

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Tom Brothwell

Bristol History Podcast

Bristol History Podcast: State Surveillance in Bristol and Beyond

This week I spoke with Colin Thomas and Tim Beasley of the Bristol Radical History Group to discuss the history of state surveillance in their...

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Tom Brothwell

Bristol History Podcast

Bristol History Podcast: The Bristol Blitz

2020 marked the eightieth anniversary of the Bristol Blitz, which saw 77 Nazi air raids on the city, with six major raids taking place in the winter of 1940-41. I spoke with Eugene Byrne of the Bristol Post to discuss the origins of the Blitz and how Bristolians coped with being bombed. We also e...

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Tom Brothwell
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