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Old Market

Batton Charge

Old Market in a postcard postmarked 1909

The Police Line

Weapons

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The Bristol Strike Wave of 1889-90

Miriam Daniell

The Gas Strike - The Bristol Magpie

Robert Tovey

The Tug Of War! Strangling The British Workman

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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

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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 public burning of Farther Urban Grandier for signing a pact with the devil. From a contemporary drawing. Loudun, 1634.

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Witches

The devil making love to a witch

Wizard riding to the sabbath

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

The Devil carrying a witch off to hell.

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Pirates

Anne Bonny; from Histories der Engelsche Zee-Roovers, 1725.

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.

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

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

Toussaint L'Ouverture

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

Death of Capt. Ferrer, the Captain of the Amistad, July, 1839.**

Toussaint L'Ouverture, a Maroon* leader from Haiti, he defeated both British and French armies. Above right and possibly left by C. H. Dietrich.

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Hazard & Nayler

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

James Nayler's ride up Corn Street.

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.

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Bristol 1831: The Queens Square Uprising

Ruins Opposite The Assembly Rooms, Princes St. Bristol.

A postcard of the burning of the New Gaol. Courtesy of Bristol Central Reference Library refinfo@bristol.gov.uk

The Bishop's Palace after the 1831 uprising.

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

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