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Old Market

Batton Charge

Means Test

Old Market in a postcard postmarked 1909

A postcard of Old Market in 1860 printed in 1907

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The Bristol Strike Wave of 1889-90

Miriam Daniell

Robert Allan Nicol

Helen Born

Katherine St John Conway

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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

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Witch Hunting

Torturing of jews accused by the inquisition as heretics and perpetrators of black magic.

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

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

Title page from one of Cotton Mather's witch-hunting pamphlets. Printed by Benjamin Harris for Samuel Phillips. Boston, 1693.

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Witches

The devil making love to a witch

Witch 'inoculating' a man by shooting a twig through his foot

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

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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.

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.

Anne Bonny & Mary Read; from Captain Charles Johnson's A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pyrates, 1724.

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

Toussaint L'Ouverture

A Jamaican slave revolt, 1759. From Histoire d'Angleterre by David Francois.

Fire in Saint-Domingo 1791, German copper engraving.

The frontispiece and title pages of the first London (1789) and New York (1791) editions of The Interesting Narrative by Olaudah Equiano.

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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 of Warehouse in Prince Street, 1831, W. J. Müller

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 Burning of the New Gaol from Canon's Marsh, 1831, W. J. Müller

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