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Christmas at Blaise

This week we’ve been busy decking the halls at Blaise House. Gathering greenery from the park, putting up Christmas trees and retrieving boxes of ribbons and baubles from the basement.  Out in the park, gathering holly, ivy, yew, laurel and box, …

Posted on by Alice Bush.

Spotlight on: Jonathan Adagogo Green

Spotlight compiled by Eve Andreski, Documentation Assistant. To coincide with Black History Month, the British Empire and Commonwealth Collection (BECC) team wanted to focus on an important series of images within the archive. The Jones collectio…

Posted on by Kate Iles.

The return of the Winter Lectures

The Winter Lectures are back and for the first time will be held in person and online. The programme is as varied as ever with the first three sessions covering design, dinosaurs and mid-winter traditions.   Up first and in October is curator Cleo…

Posted on by Alice Bush.

Decolonising the Bristol Archives catalogue

By Sophie Welsh, third-year PhD student at the universities of Exeter and Southampton Hello, my name is Sophie Welsh. I’m a third-year PhD student at the University of Exeter and the University of Southampton. I took a short break from my PhD to wo…

Posted on by Lauren MacCarthy.

Women’s work: Making discoveries in the Australian collection

By Polly Bence, University of Bristol, Department of Anthropology and Archaeology My research focuses on cultural objects from Oceania – an understudied part of the collection at Bristol Museum & Art Gallery. Earlier in 2022 I undertook a fou…

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The unknown story of Te Whiti, a Māori chief from Hauraki, New Zealand

by Polly Bence, PhD student at the universities of Bristol and Exeter. Polly is researching material culture collected from Australia and the Pacific Islands in Bristol Museum & Art Gallery. Sensitivity warning: Some of the details in the blog r…

Posted on by Lauren MacCarthy.

Film digitisation project: Re-discovering archive footage

by Jayne Pucknell, archivist with the British Empire & Commonwealth Collection We’re pleased to say we have now completed our film digitisation project! We have been working with our partners at Nulight Studios, to scan and digitally preserve some k…

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Family events at Blaise this summer

Blaise Museum is excited to launch a programme of free, family-friendly summer fun that will run throughout the school holidays. Events with craft, storytelling and a whole host of other activities will take place on Wednesdays in August. Each day has a d…

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War memorial benches reinstated

by Frank Kennedy, buildings team leader at Bristol Museum & Art Gallery Just before lockdown in 2020, two curved wooden benches outside the entrance of Bristol Museum & Art Gallery were vandalised beyond repair. Sadly, for the fourth time in two…