Bristol and Lubeck
The people of medieval Bristol were so closely linked to a German port in the Baltic Sea that the two populations shared a unique type of worm living in their guts. The bizarre discovery...
Some distressed Bristol Seamen and their dependents, 1758
Jonathon Bisp of Winterbourne, c1754, who appears in my Kingswood Index (elsewhere on this site) was apparently also nown as “Bliss”. In 1996, Mrs Walsh, a descendant of the Bisp Family, sent me a...
Bristol Men in Nelson’s Navy
Bristol and other local Men at Trafalgar, 1805. Royal Navy (of Bristol unless otherwise stated) John Alden, 20, Landsman, HMS Naiad, 1804 William Alden, 35, AB, HMS Thunderer, 1805 John Allen, 20, Landsman, Bath,...
“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...
About Me
I have been researching the social history of the West Country for 45 years. During this time I have collated information on a wide range of people living and working in the West Country including miners, ethnic minorities, petty criminals, sailors, tommies, benefactors, brassmakers and many more. The thing that I find amazing is that ordinary people always lived extraordinary lives. I hope you like my blog that brings together my lifetime of research.
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