Monthly Archives: November 2013

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Desert Island Doc: A charter for chocolate

Our staff and invited guests introduce their favourite documents from the Bristol Archives collections. For this edition, Graham Tratt, Archivist has chosen Walter Churchman’s letters patent, 1729.

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Bristol At Home celebrates Movember!

In case you missed it on Twitter, here is a lovely photograph of a chap with an extravagant moustache relaxing in his living room. This photo dates from around 1900. Besides his glorious facial hair, this photograph is also interesting because it show…

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Desert Island Doc: In the air at Goram Fair

Our staff and invited guests introduce their favourite documents from the Bristol Archives collections. For this edition, Dave Williams, Archives Assistant has chosen a photograph of Acrobats at Goram Fair, Blaise Estate in the late 1950s.

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The Bristol At Home project

The #BristolAtHome project aims to get everyone in Bristol involved in recording our lives today and making them part of the museum collection for the future. Many people think of museums as places which collect and look after objects from the past. Th…