City History: Water under the bridge

Ray Newman remembers the bygone medieval beginnings of a local landmark It’s a defining image of our capital city: Old London Bridge spanning the Thames with...

Being Brunel: The Man, The Myth, The Legend

Jessica Hope discovers the extraordinary mind behind one of history’s greatest engineers following the opening of Bristol’s newest museum, Being Brunel The y...

The history of Bristol’s suffragettes

Local author Jane Duffus has a new book out this month, cataloguing more than 250 fabulous females from Bristol's past. Here, we’re introduced to a few of the&n...

The ghost signs of Bristol

Andrew Swift has been out hunting for signs of the city’s commercial history. Those faded advertisements for long-forgotten businesses – otherwise known as gho...

A new era for The
New Room museum

The most famous Bristol attraction you’ve probably never heard of, and what’s changed there during 2017 How much remains today of what went on in Bristol dur...

Benevolent Bristol: Bristol Dogs and Cats Home

To mark its 130th anniversary, Jessica Hope delves into the history of the Bristol Dogs and Cats Home By the late Victorian period, the number of stray dogs an...

Colston Hall Asks Bristol Public for Memories of the Venue

As part of its 150th anniversary celebrations, Colston Hall is calling on the Bristol public to share their special memories of the iconic venue Whatever your ...

Flight of the Concorde: Aerospace Bristol

A £19million industrial heritage museum is soon to open in Bristol – telling the story of more than a century of aviation history in the West, through insight i...

Bristol Bulldog Spirit: Tony Bullimore

It's 20 years since round-the-world solo yachtsman Tony Bullimore survived six days trapped in freezing waters under his capsized boat. Emily Horton finds him r...

Life on the High Seas: ss Great Britain History

Jessica Hope explores the stories of those who once sailed on Brunel’s ss Great Britain and discovers what it was really like to be a passenger When the ss Gre...

10 Things We Didn’t Know: Colston Hall

The beloved Bristol landmark is 150 years old this year, and to celebrate, we took a look back through the Colston Hall archives – which make for some fairly su...

All Change on the Home Front: Glenside Hospital Museum

Jessica Hope visits Glenside Hospital Museum to discover how the Bristol Lunatic Asylum underwent significant change during the First World War  While war...