Halloween is usually regarded as the creepiest festival of the modern year. A celebration of witchcraft, phantoms and images of fear coming down to us from a remote and murky pagan past. But how old and how pagan is Halloween really? Was it the ancient pagan feast of the dead, or the Celtic New Year? […]
For around 100 years the skylines of Bedminster and Ashton were dominated by the red brick buildings of Wills and other tobacco firms. Once a major part of Bristol’s industrial and civic heritage, the tobacco factories have all gone now, some demolished and some transformed into new ventures. But they, and the people who worked […]
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. […]
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 […]
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, […]