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Old Market

Old Market in a postcard postmarked 1909

A postcard of Old Market in 1860 printed in 1907

Police baton charge unemployed workers march on Old Market Street, February 23rd 1932.

The Police Line

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The Bristol Strike Wave of 1889-90

The Gas Strike - The Bristol Magpie

Ben Tillett

Miriam Daniell

Strikes, and rumours of strikes and strikers!

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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

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.

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.

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

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Witches

The devil making love to a witch

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

The Devil carrying a witch off to hell.

Witch cunjuring demons.

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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.

Ned Low; Captain Charles Johnson's A General History of the Lives and Adventures of the Most Famous Highwaymen, Murderes, Street Robbers &c., 1734.

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

Toussaint L'Ouverture

'Rt. Excellent Samuel Sharpe, National Hero' on the Bank of Jamaica $50 note. Sharpe was an educated town slave who became the leader of the 1831 Jamaica uprising.

European and African slave traders, 1856.

Spanish "gentlemen" selecting slaves in Cuba, 1837.

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Hazard & Nayler

James Nayler

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.

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Bristol 1831: The Queens Square Uprising

Bristol Burns, 1831, W. J. Müller

A poster calling for people to sign a petition for reform. Courtesy of Bristol Central Reference Library refinfo@bristol.gov.uk

Ruins Opposite The Assembly Rooms, Princes St. Bristol.

The Bishop's Palace after the 1831 uprising.

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