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