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Desert Island Doc: The mermaid and the monk

Our staff and invited guests introduce their favourite documents from the Bristol Archives collections. For this edition, Julian Warren, Archivist has chosen the surviving portions of a medieval temporale.

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Best of December: Christmas decorations

Now that the new year is here, we can showcase the wonderful photographs posted in December on our theme of Christmas decorations. We had some great responses. Homemade seems to have been a theme in Bristol’s homes, this Christmas. Here is Lou Archell of…

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Desert Island Doc: A festive feast at Bush Tavern

Our staff and invited guests introduce their favourite documents from the Bristol Archives collections. For this edition, Allie Dillon, Senior Archivist (Public Services) has chosen a bill of fare at J Weeks’s Bush Tavern, Corn Street, for Christmas 1790.

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December: Christmas decorations

Announcing the new theme for December: Christmas decorations! We want to collect photos of how people in Bristol are decorating their homes for Christmas this year. Whether you’re putting up a tree, standing glittery reindeer on your mantelpiece or hangi…

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Best of November: Living Rooms

See the best of last month’s #BristolAtHome photos on our Storify. Some of these photos have been made part of the permanent collection, to be kept for the benefit of people in Bristol in the future. They might be used for research, in exhibitions or onl…

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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…