Bristol

111 Places in Bristol you Shouldn't Miss Bristol is one of the UK's biggest cities but is small enough to sometimes feel like a village. It is a city built on trading with much of its former maritime heritage now transformed into buzzing independent harbourside businesses in which to eat, drink and let your hair down. Both water and green spaces abound. And you'll have to get used to hills when ex…

Mansons Bristol Miscellany: Volume 1 Bristol�s early days, power and politics, business and trade, markets and fairs, transatlantic slave trade, law and order, public protest, Bristol�s mines plagues and public health and much more��The�Bristol Miscellany�is Michael Manson�s search for the soul of the city.� Accessibly written Manson�s Bristol Miscellany contains an array of fascinating, enjoyable…

Mansons Bristol Miscellany: Volume 2 How much do you know about the history of Bristol? Why does it look the way it does? What secrets do its streets hide? What stories would its buildings tell if they had a voice? Volume Two of Manson’s Bristol Miscellany includes: Getting around: roads, ferries, trams, trains, planes and bridges. Webs of communication: newspapers and telecommunications. Earth, w…

The Women Who Built Bristol: Volume Two Behind every strong city, there is an even stronger army of women creating the bricks with which to build it. Following the success of Volume One, in Volume Two of The Women Who Built Bristol, we meet a further 250 inspiring females who fought tooth and nail to shape our city and the wider world. Olympians rub shoulders with boot makers; suffragists stand be…