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Old Market

Batton Charge

Means Test

Old Market in a postcard postmarked 1909

The Police Line

The Bristol Strike Wave of 1889-90

Miriam Daniell

The Late Gasworkers' Strike And Our Ornamental Police - The Bristol Magpie

Dan Irving

John Gregory

Great Western Cotton Works, Barton Hill

Great Western Cotton Works, Barton Hill Bristol

Great Western Cotton Works, Barton Hill Bristol

Great Western Cotton Works, Barton Hill Bristol By Samual Loxton

Great Western Cotton Works, Barton Hill Bristol

Witch Hunting

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

Hanging of a farm woman declared by the inquisition to be possessed by demons. From Rappresentatione della passione. Florence, 1520.

Mass execution of citizens of Haalem as disciples of the devil under Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alba, after the conquest of Haalem in 1753.

The torture of the inhabitants of Antwerp by Spanish troops under Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alba, after the conquest of the city in 1756.

Witches

The devil making love to a witch

Sorcerer selling a bag of wind.

Witch cunjuring demons.

Pirates

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

Ann Mills; from Portraits, Memories, and Characters of Remarkable Persons from the Revolution of 1688 to the End of the Reign of King George II, James Caufield, 1820.

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

Mary Read; from Histories der Engelsche Zee-Roovers, 1725.

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

Toussaint L'Ouverture

An African dealer marches Slaves to the coast where they will be sold.

A slave revolt.

A Jamaican slave revolt, 1759. From Histoire d'Angleterre by David Francois.

Hazard & Nayler

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

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.

James Nayler's ride up Corn Street.

James Nayler

Bristol 1831: The Queens Square Uprising

The Bishop's Palace after the 1831 uprising.

Ruins Opposite The Assembly Rooms, Princes St. Bristol.

Queen Square Bristol from North West Corner, 1827, T. L. Rowbotham

West side of Queen Square Bristol the morning after the Dreadful Conflagration, 1831, J. B. Pyne