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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

Rosemary Caldicott

Podcast

Bristol History Podcast // Concorde

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

Bristol and Beyond

Why you should know about Bristol’s great Hindu reformer

One of Arnos Vale’s most distinctive tombs commemorates a remarkable man

Koel Mukherjee
Koel Mukherjee

Voices

Power through art: Michele Curtis

Sitting by the harbourside up and coming portrait artist Michele Curtis talks art, politics and ambition.

Alon Aviram
Alon Aviram

City

Can We Move Beyond Black History Month?

Storyteller from South Africa challenges the limits of this yearly event and speaks to local actors proposing initiatives to expand learning about global cultures

Kabbo Ferdinand