social history

• Features / social history

  The archive telling Avonmouth’s forgotten tale

  “There's no other industry like docking. It's one big family, we will look after our own”

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• Theatre / theatre walks

  Show of Strength add new theatre walks to their busy autumn calendar

  Themes range from Blackbeard and butchery to walking in the footsteps of Cary Grant

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• Art / Martin Parr Foundation

  ‘Abandoned’: new exhibition at Martin Parr Foundation

  ‘Abandoned’ is showing until December 22

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• Theatre / acta

  New acta show revisits the heyday of Bedminster Hippodrome

  Pick N Mix Theatre will be joined on stage by Bedminster Community Choir

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• Features / queer history

  Public urinals and gallows: Mapping Bristol’s LGBTQ+ history

  Queer people have found creative ways to navigate Bristol's public spaces throughout history

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• News / social history

  Exploring the lives of Black nurses in 1960s

  A project by Historic England takes a look at those who worked at Glenside Hospital in Stapleton

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• Features / social history

  Remembering the road severed in half by the M32

  “It was so different, it was a real neighbourhood then"

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