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Old Market

Old Market in a postcard postmarked 1909

Means Test

A postcard of Old Market in 1860 printed in 1907

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

The Bristol Strike Wave of 1889-90

Miriam Daniell

Robert Tovey

Edward Watson

Dan Irving

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.

Another scene of torturing Jews.

Two dominican monks burned at the stake by order of the inquisition for allegedly signing pacts with the devil. From the Histoire Véritable de Quatre lacopins. Geneva ,1549.

Broadside newsletter about the public burning of three witches Derneburg October 1555.

Witches

The devil making love to a witch

Witch riding to the sabbath

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.

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.

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

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

Toussaint L'Ouverture

A slave rebel from 'Narrative of a Five Years' Expedition, against the revolted Negroes of Surinam (between French Guiana and Guyana). from the year 1772, to 1777, by John Gabriel Stedman.

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

An Interior View of a Jamaica House of Correction, 1834.

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.

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

James Nayler

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

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