Archives

Ten centuries of records

EXHIBITION: With records documenting ten centuries of Bristol’s history, Bristol Archives continues the long tradition of record-keeping in the city.

Documenting death

EXHIBITION: Documenting Death explores traditions, practices and attitudes towards death and how people have understood and responded to death over time.

What’s On

Find out what’s on at Bristol Archives – exhibitions, tours and open days.

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 …

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.

Explore Your Archive: Bristol in old postcards

We want to encourage people to discover historic Bristol through old postcards on the Know Your Place website. Would you like to use the postcards to tell your own stories – or could you volunteer for us?

Desert Island Doc: A very Bristolian bride

At Bristol Archives, we’re often asked for evidence of the Bristol dialect amongst the archives, but this usually proves elusive.