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Old Market

Batton Charge

Means Test

Old Market in a postcard postmarked 1909

Weapons

The Bristol Strike Wave of 1889-90

The Gas Strike - The Bristol Magpie

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

Helen Born

Miriam Daniell

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.

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

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

Macbeth and the three witches (Act IV, Scene I). From N. Rowe's first illustrated edition of william Shakespear's works. Printed by Tonson, London 1709.

Demons riding to the sabbath

Witches' Brew. From Abraham Saur's Ein Kurtze Treue Warning (A Short, True, Warning). Printed at Frankfurt, 1582.

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.

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.

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

Toussaint L'Ouverture

Toussaint L'Ouverture

Enslaved Africans in Hold of Slave Ship, 1827

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

Hazard & Nayler

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

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.

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

The Burning of the Bishop's Palace, 1831, W. J. Müller

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