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

A new film by the Tobacco Control Research Group exposes how the company, with its HQ in Bedminster, is benefiting from a modern form of exploitation.

Louis Laurence (Tobacco Research Control Group) and Roy Maconachie

Features

Image of Xeena Cooper, The Next Test chair (credit: Alexander Turner)

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

Michal Grant

Voices

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

Dr Richard Stone (Senior Historian, University of Bristol)

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.

Tom Brothwell

People's History

Stokes Croft Riots: 10 years on

Eliz Mizon

People's History

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

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

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

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

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

Bristol and Beyond