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Old Market

Means Test

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 Bristol Strike Wave of 1889-90

Robert Tovey

Enid Stacy

John Gregory

Miriam Daniell

Great Western Cotton Works, Barton Hill

Great Western Cotton Works, Barton Hill Bristol

Great Western Cotton Works, Barton Hill Bristol By Samual Loxton

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.

Another scene of torturing Jews.

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

Demons riding to the sabbath

Witch riding on the Devil's he-goat to the Walpurgisnacht, goaded on by amoretti.

Witch brewing up a storm.

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

Enslaved Africans in Hold of Slave Ship, 1827

A Bristol gun maker's business card. From Bristol Central Reference Library. refinfo@bristol.gov.uk

'Rt. Excellent Samuel Sharpe, National Hero' on the Bank of Jamaica $50 note. Sharpe was an educated town slave who became the leader of the 1831 Jamaica uprising.

Hazard & Nayler

James Nayler 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's ride up Corn Street.

James Nayler

Bristol 1831: The Queens Square Uprising

The Bishop's Palace after the 1831 uprising.

A celebration of the Reform Act being passed, J Rowbotham & W Müller (sic).

A postcard of the riots in Queen Square. Courtesy of Bristol Central Reference Library refinfo@bristol.gov.uk

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