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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

The Gas Strike - The Bristol Magpie

Robert Allan Nicol

Ben Tillett

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.

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

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.

The public hanging of the three Chelmsford witches Joan Prentice, Joan Cony and Joan Upney. From an English pamphlet, 1598.

Witches

The devil making love to a witch

Witches brewing up a hailstorm. (title page)

Wizard riding to the sabbath

Sorcerer riding the waves on a peice of floatsam.

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

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

European and African slave traders, 1856.

Slave Market on the Kambia River, Coast of Africa. A woodcut from an oil painting from 1840.

Hazard & Nayler

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

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.

Ruins Opposite The Assembly Rooms, Princes St. Bristol.

North side of Queen Square Bristol the morning after the Dreadful Conflagration, 1831, J. B. Pyne Queen Square North Side In Ruins

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