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Posted on January 30, 2017 by Fay Curtis.

Fanning the Flame Trees: uncovering the photographs of Elspeth Huxley at Bristol Archives

by Nicky Sugar, Bristol Archives One of the gems in the British Empire and Commonwealth Collection is the photographic archive of the writer and broadcaster Elspeth Huxley. With nearly 12,000 images, it is the largest collection we’ve catalogued since t…

Posted on November 18, 2016 by Fay Curtis.

Contribute to the History of Place project

by Grace Swordy, Project Coordinator for History of Place The History of Place project highlights sites of importance within disability history, culminating in exhibitions in London, Liverpool and Bristol. You can read an introduction into the History of…

Posted on November 15, 2016 by Fay Curtis.

Bristol Archives: A new name for Bristol Record Office

by Allie Dillon, Senior Archivist The national Explore Your Archive campaign begins next week and we’re marking the occasion with some changes. From Monday 21 November 2016, Bristol Record Office will be known as Bristol Archives – a name chosen to…

Posted on November 11, 2016 by Fay Curtis.

An anthropologist in Africa: photographs by Dr Malcolm Ruel revisit Kenya

By Jayne Pucknell, archivist at Bristol Archives Among the archives in the British Empire and Commonwealth Collection, we found an intriguing group of papers and images by the anthropologist Dr Malcolm Ruel. These document his work in West and East A…

Posted on July 28, 2016 by Fay Curtis.

Films of India in the British Empire & Commonwealth Collection

By Jayne Pucknell and Nicky Sugar, archivists at Bristol Archives Some amazing films from the former British Empire and Commonwealth Museum are now in the care of Bristol Archives. In our last blog post, we talked about starting to catalogue the collect…

Posted on April 28, 2016 by Fay Curtis.

A Learning City: Bristol’s archives feature in BBC GCSE history film

2016 is the Year of Learning in Bristol and we’re enjoying sharing Bristol’s archive collections as widely as possible to show the value of historic records for learning and education.

Posted on April 5, 2016 by Fay Curtis.

Update: Photographs and films in the British Empire and Commonwealth Collection

By Nicky Sugar and Jayne Pucknell, archivists at Bristol Archives. We introduced ourselves last summer as the project archivists working on photographs and films from the former British Empire and Commonwealth Museum. During that time, we’ve made consi…

Posted on August 14, 2015 by Fay Curtis.

Exploring Empire: the photographic collections of the former British Empire & Commonwealth Museum

A new project at Bristol Archives will open up an internationally-important collection of colonial photographs for research and learning.

Posted on April 6, 2015 by Fay Curtis.

Bristol Green Capital 2015: Sources for Research

Bristol Archives holds archive sources related to many environmental and sustainability issues. Selected collections and papers are described here, although this is not a comprehensive list. More material is listed in our online catalogue. To search …

Posted on December 24, 2014 by Fay Curtis.

Desert Island Doc: Agatha Christie’s wartime wedding

On the afternoon of Christmas Eve 1914, Agatha Miller married Captain Archibald Christie in Bristol. Records of the ceremony, hastily arranged while Archie was on leave during the First World War, are now held at Bristol Archives.

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