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Old Market

Means Test

Old Market in a postcard postmarked 1909

The Police Line

Weapons

The Bristol Strike Wave of 1889-90

Miriam Daniell

Ben Tillett

Enid Stacy

Helen Born

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

Great Western Cotton Works, Barton Hill Bristol

Witch Hunting

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

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.

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

Witches celebrating.

Witch turned traveller atacking travellers.

Wizard riding to the sabbath

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.

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

Warships in the bay, buildings burning and general chaos on shore, as the French military are chased from Saint Domingue, 1820.

Toussaint L'Ouverture, a Maroon* leader from Haiti, he defeated both British and French armies. Above right and possibly left by C. H. Dietrich.

An imagined picture of a slave auction used as propaganda before the American Civil War.

Hazard & Nayler

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

James Nayler

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

James Nayler 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.

A poster calling for people to sign a petition for reform. Courtesy of Bristol Central Reference Library refinfo@bristol.gov.uk

North side of Queen Square, 1832, Rev Eden

The Burning of the Mansion House, Queen Square, 1831, W. J. Müller