history

• News / Cotham

  Exact location of Bristol’s gallows rediscovered by historian

  Dr Evan Jones has also pinpointed the precise position of an ancient stone cross

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• News / history

  Salvaged Titanic artefacts resurface in limited exhibition

  The two-week-long display features personal items, first-class chinaware and more

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• News / Edward Colston

  When Colston statue is expected to go back on display in Bristol

  The council is seeking retrospective permission to relocate the statue

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• Features / history

  Following the route of Bristol’s medieval city wall

  After 1000 years, much of the wall's original route can remarkably still be followed

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• Features / history

  Bristol’s forgotten fossil collector

  James Johnson's home in Hotwells was filled to the rafters with fossils

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• Features / history

  This is Bristol’s oldest door

  Bristol's oldest door is the second oldest door in the whole of England

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• News / Aerospace Bristol

  Free coach travel for schoolchildren to ‘world-class’ museum

  “We have seen first-hand how much students enjoy exploring Bristol’s rich aerospace history”

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• Features / ghost signs

  Ghosts of Bristol’s past

  Signs of times gone by are hidden in plain sight on buildings across the city

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