Name: Studio 2: Bristol and the arms trade
Start: 2017-09-17T10:30:00+00:00
End: 2017-09-17T11:30:00+00:00
Location: M Shed

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Date: Sun 17th Sep, 2017

Time: 10:30am to 11:30am

Venue: M Shed, BS1 4RN

Price: Free

With: Jo Baker

Series: Bristol Radical History Festival at M Shed 2017

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Section: Events

Subjects: World War I

Tags: arms trade, Bristol, war

Posted: 13/08/2017 Modified: 20/02/2018

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‘The Bristol Fighter’ manufactured by the Bristol Aeroplane Company. In service from WW1 to 1931
(Wikipedia: Kogo GNU licence)

A look at the early development of Bristol’s aeroplane industry and how Bristol planes helped ‘police’ the empire in the interwar years. Special reference to Afghanistan, Iraq and Aden (Yemen).

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