Articles: Galleries

Here you will find articles by our contributors. To filter the articles by ‘type’ use the menu below. Articles, as well as most of the content on this site, are also grouped by Subjects, Tags (keywords) and Projects.

Old Market

Old Market in a postcard postmarked 1909

A postcard of Old Market in 1860 printed in 1907

Police baton charge unemployed workers march on Old Market Street, February 23rd 1932.

The Police Line

The Bristol Strike Wave of 1889-90

Dan Irving

John Gregory

Katherine St John Conway

Miriam Daniell

Great Western Cotton Works, Barton Hill

Great Western Cotton Works, Barton Hill Bristol By Samual Loxton

Great Western Cotton Works, Barton Hill Bristol

Great Western Cotton Works, Barton Hill Bristol

Great Western Cotton Works, Barton Hill Bristol

Witch Hunting

Torturing of jews accused by the inquisition as heretics and perpetrators of black magic.

Newsletter about the infernal deeds and the execution of the witch Anna Eberlehrin. Printed by Elias Wellhöffe, "Briefmaler" at Ausburg, 1669.

Public hanging of witches. From Sir George Macenzie's Law and Customs in Scotland in Matters Criminal. Edinburgh, 1678.

Title page from from another edition of Cotton Mather's witch-hunt pamphlet, re-printed from the Boston edition for John Dutton. London, 1693.

Witches

The devil making love to a witch

Worlock riding to the witches sabbeth.

Witches concocting an ointment to be used for flying to the sabbath. By Hans Baldung. Strassburg, 1514.

Pirates

Anne Bonny; from Histories der Engelsche Zee-Roovers, 1725.

Captain Bartholomew and eleven captured merchant vessels off the coast of West Africa. From Captain Charles Johnson's A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pyrates, 1724.

Edward Teach a.k.a Blackbeard; Captain Charles Johnson's A General History of the Lives and Adventures of the Most Famous Highwaymen, Murderes, Street Robbers &c., 1734.

Anne Bonny & Mary Read; from Captain Charles Johnson's A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pyrates, 1724.

Pictures of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, Abolitionists and Maroon Rebels

Toussaint L'Ouverture

A slave revolt.

European and African slave traders, 1856.

John Newton. Slave ship captain and writer of several hundred hymns including Amazing Grace. He later became an abolitionist.

Hazard & Nayler

Widow Kelly* and others barricading the Frome Gate Against Prince Ruppert at the Siege of Bristol 1643. From Bristol Past and Present Vol III by J. F. Nicholls and John Taylor 1882.

Mistress Dorothy Hazard and the Women of Bristol Defending The Frome Gate 1643.

James Nayler From Bristol Past and Present Vol III by J. F. Nicholls and John Taylor 1882.

James Nayler being whipped From Bristol Past and Present Vol III by J. F. Nicholls and John Taylor 1882.

Bristol 1831: The Queens Square Uprising

The Bishop's Palace after the 1831 uprising.

Ruins Opposite The Assembly Rooms, Princes St. Bristol.

Ruins of Warehouse in Prince Street, 1831, W. J. Müller

A postcard of the burning of the New Gaol. Courtesy of Bristol Central Reference Library refinfo@bristol.gov.uk