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  • Talk and Q&A: The Brislington Rail Project with Andrew Swift

    02.09.26

    Join author and rail enthusiast Andrew Swift detailing the story of one of the most challenging sections of the original Great Western to build. A construction project fraught with problems, pitched battles between gangs of navvies, and court battles between engineer Isambard…

  • Talk and Q&A: The Long History of South Asians in Bristol with Sumita Mukherjee

    02.09.26

    Author and professor of Modern History at University of Bristol, Sumita Mukherjee presents the unique experiences of the very youngest South Asian migrants to Bristol from the Victorian era to Partition, instrumental not only in shaping Indian national and diasporic identities but forming an essential part of the Bristol we…

  • Talk and Q&A: Unbuilt Bristol with Eugene Byrne

    02.09.26

    The footnotes of Bristol’s distant and recent history are littered with schemes for roads, bridges, railways, buildings and things which for one reason or another (usually money) never got built. There are even more structures which did get built, but in very different (usually cheaper) forms to the original plans.