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Old Market

Old Market in a postcard postmarked 1909

Batton Charge

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

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

The Tug Of War! Strangling The British Workman

Dan Irving

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.

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

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

Witches

The devil making love to a witch

Demons riding to the sabbath

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.

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.

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.

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

"Even though the enemy was beaten, the victory didn't seem to belong to us yet, and the danger became even greater in front of the resistance of the slaves and our exhaustion." 1883, Albert Laporte

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

Fire of the Cape Francais in Saint Domingo

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.

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

The Bristol Riots: The Burning of the New Gaol with St. Paul's Church, Bedminster, 1831, W. J. Müller