by Allie Dillon, Senior Archivist at Bristol Archives We’re delighted to be part of a project to transform Bristol Old Vic into a major heritage destination, thanks to a £2.4m grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund. The investment is funding a r…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…