history

• Your say / Windrush

  ‘The Windrush Generation were tempted by streets paved with gold’

  Roger Griffith discusses the legacies of Windrush on its 75th anniversary

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• News / Colston

  New evidence unearthed into Bristol’s early involvement in slave trade

  It suggests Thomas Colston played a role in the trade decades before his relative, Edward

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• News / redfield

  Historic fighter jet continues to fly in self-storage

  It is the only fighter jet capable of travelling twice the speed of sound

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• News / University of Bristol

  Historic gardens featured in Sherlock series to be opened to public

  The gardens feature one of the UK's finest examples of a surviving shell grotto

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• Behind the Headlines / Colonialism

  Deconstructing Bristol’s colonial history

  A closer look at the interactive app that maps the city's links to the transatlantic slave trade

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• Features / Bristol

  An eclectic array of adverts for Bristol businesses from 1947

  From tobacco to rubber, trucks to coal, and fur-backed gloves to world-famous sherries

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• News / history

  Series of talks to explore hidden histories of Bedminster and Southville

  Bristol Radical History Group are behind the events

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• News / conservation

  Bristol City Council conservation team extend protection of historic area

  New boundaries would preserve a unique village heritage

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