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Journalist, author, and activist Polly Toynbee – who is appearing at the Clifton LitFest on 11 November – has a...
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Bristol’s musical, cultural cornerstone finally reopens this month, kicking off party season with an almighty shindig and much more. On...
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By the 1860s, Bristol was growing fast. New factories were springing up around the city, but, faced with a lack of adequate public transport, those who worked in them had to live within walking distance. This was a problem not only for the factory owners, who needed to recruit workers...
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Anna Mazzotta is a British artist with Italian roots, she studied at Londons Royal College of Art and lives and...
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Film director Ken Loach has argued that working people’s struggles are inherently dramatic. His filmmaking career has proved that again...
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English National Ballet returns to Bristol Hippodrome from 26–28 October with Akram Khan’s Giselle, the revolutionary production that reimagines one of the greatest ballets of all times Akram Khan’s bold version of Giselle is back at the Bristol Hippodrome this autumn after its inaugural tour in 2016. Considered a 21st-century...
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As Bristol’s first new train station recently opened in almost a century, Andrew Swift takes a closer look at the...
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As the work of Bristol-based mural painter, illustrator and lettering artist Zoë Power continues to pop up across the West...
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Dyrham Park is sparkling with 17th-century life once more thanks to a massive project to revitalise, restore and reimagine the baroque house. Following the roof replacement in 2016, plans have been underway to re-present the house as created by owner William Blathwayt in the late 1600s by telling its stories,...
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In the mid 1960s, a music and dance movement called Northern Soul swept across the Midlands and North of England....
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This month, Malcolm Ravenscroft, a member of the Bristol Civic Society’s Blue Plaque panel, explains how to have a blue...
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This year, Bristol Ferry Boats announced the refurbishment and relaunch of one of its oldest vessels, nearing 100 years old. Here, Andrew Swift looks back at the history of Bristol’s beloved water network… Bristol today may be a city of bridges, but it was once a city of ferries. Until...