history

Edition 44

Bristol’s Sikh community: A family history

With the arrival in 1961 of Bristol’s first copy of the Guru Granth Sahib, the Sikh holy text, we trace the history of the city’s Sikh community and the family it began with

Priyanka Raval
Priyanka Raval

Edition 44

Collage of photos of a man in robes and a turban outside a large townhouse and sat with a group of people

Clifton, Celtic revivalists and a quest for unity: The history of Bahá’í in Bristol

Sofia Lambis
Sofia Lambis

Features

Bristol’s Imperial Tobacco is profiting from farmers trapped working for suppliers, film reveals

Louis Laurence Roy Maconachie
Louis Laurence (Tobacco Research Control Group) and Roy Maconachie
Image of Xeena Cooper, The Next Test chair (credit: Alexander Turner)

Features

‘We need people to step up now’: the Bristolians working to save cricket from climate change

Cricket's past is tangled with colonialism, a key root of climate change. Now, it's the pitch sport most at risk from global heating – but a group based in Bristol are working to highlight the threats and protect its future.

Michal Grant
Michal Grant

Voices

How a Bristol historian found Edward Colston’s brother was a slave trader too

Dr Richard Stone
Dr Richard Stone (Senior Historian, University of Bristol)

Bristol History Podcast

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

Tom Brothwell
Tom Brothwell

People's History

Stokes Croft Riots: 10 years on

Key changes being made to the Stokes Croft Tesco in 2021 mean the story is as relevant, and murky, as it ever was, says Eliz Mizon. What led to the ‘Stokes Croft riots’ ten years ago?

Eliz Mizon
Eliz Mizon

People's History

The tragic story of Hannah Wiltshire and a Bedminster Workhouse resonates today

An untimely death led to a campaign for justice by the local community.

Rosemary Caldicott

Podcasts

Bristol History Podcast // Concorde

This week I met with Dr. Keith McLoughlin of Bristol University to discuss the remarkable story of Concorde - the first supersonic passenger aircraft.

Tom Brothwell
Tom Brothwell

Bristol History Podcast

Bristol History Podcast // Bristol’s Public Memory of Slavery

This week I met with Dr. Jessica Moody of Bristol University to discuss the ways in which Bristol has publicly addressed its involvement in the...

Tom Brothwell
Tom Brothwell

Bristol History Podcast

Bristol History Podcast // Lucienne Boyce on History and Historical Fiction

  This week Tom Brothwell meets with acclaimed historian and historical fiction writer, Lucienne Boyce. They discuss the history of the women’s suffrage movement in...

Tom Brothwell
Tom Brothwell

Bristol History Podcast

Bristol History Podcast // Bristol Zoo

  As the fifth oldest zoo in the world, Bristol Zoological Gardens has been introducing Bristolians to wild animals since 1836. Tom Brothwell meets with...

Tom Brothwell
Tom Brothwell
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