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“We shall remember them” : Brislington and St Anne’s in the Great War 1914-1919

If you attend church on Remembrance Sunday it is quite likely you will hear the names of the local War Dead read aloud by a member of the congregation.  St Luke’s, Brislington is no...
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The Annals of Kingswood

The Annals of Kingswood consist of four volumes of day-to- day events, 1725-95, concerning the people who lived in an area outside Bristol in the so-called “lawless” places to the east of the City,...
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More Black Bristolians

My book, “Black Bristolians” was written in 1986 and I added a supplement a few years later. As with much of my output it took the form of lists in name order. The book...
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Black Bristolians of the 18th & 19th Centuries

In the mid-1950s, at the impressionable age of 18, I remember reading “The Sun is My Undoing” by Marguerite Steen, a popular historical novelist of the time, which alluded to a “Bristol slave market”....
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“The DUTCHMEN” – brassmakers of Bristol, Warmley, Keynsham, Bath & District.

“What is the origin of copper wire?” Answer: “Two Dutchmen fighting over a penny.”  (Joke, told to me by a Danish cousin.) I have a particularly interest in the “Dutchmen” – who were recruited...
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Black Bristolians – Addendum

Some additional Black Bristolians that I found after completing the book. Includes Pero, who is now immortalised in the name of the bridge across the Bristol floating harbour. Click the link below to download:...
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Bristol History – Celebrating the lives of ordinary people

This is the people’s history of Bristol. Not the famous people because their stories are covered elsewhere. What I am interested in are the stories of the working class, the poor, the people trying...
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