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The walk is mainly on level pavements, though extra care will be needed on uneven surfaces, particularly around Harbourside. It is around three miles long and will take about 90 minutes to complete at a leisurely pace, not including stops at places of refreshment or visitor attractions along the way. There are a few downward […]

Modernism 1922, a new project this year, explores the worlds of film, literature, music, politics and more 100 years ago. The project is run as a tribute to Kevin Jackson, author of Constellation of Genius: 1922: Modernism and All That Jazz. Here, James Harrison writes about Jackson, his book and the project it inspired. In […]

The bid by Bristol to be European Capital of Culture in 2008.

A young, idealistic British officer in the First World War, Lawrence (Peter O’Toole) is assigned to the camp of Prince Feisal (Alec Guinness), an Arab tribal chieftain and leader in a revolt against the Turks. In a series of brilliant tactical manoeuvres, Lawrence leads 50 of Feisal’s men in a tortuous three week crossing of […]

Placing the Bristol Bus Boycott pioneers within the long line of African heritage change makers and freedom fighters, the walk seeks to connect past, present and future action towards liberation. Come as you are or with a placard or a poem to share. We also encourage dressing up as your most inspirational revolutionary figure or […]

I did what every newcomer to Bristol should do. I climbed the 108 steps to the top of Cabot Tower, which had been erected in 1897 to mark the 400th anniversary of Cabot’s pioneering voyage to North America. The rolling topography of Bristol is spread below the tower. To the west, Clifton’s Georgian terraces are […]

The annual mass-reading project that was launched in 2003.

In 2000, Rob Mitchell and Shawn Sobers released Under the Bridge, a film about Bristol and the trade in enslaved people. This followed the pioneering exhibition A Respectable Trade at the City Museum and Art Gallery which included the display of Tony Forbes’ painting Sold Down the River. At the end of the film Mitchell […]

Aerospace giants Airbus and Rolls-Royce; Aardman Animations of Wallace and Gromit fame; the BBC Natural History Unit, home of many of David Attenborough’s wildlife blockbusters; and a cluster of finance professional services companies, including KPMG and stockbrokers Hargreaves Lansdown, point to the strength of the Bristol economy across multiple business sectors. Not forgetting leading tech […]

‘Mr Derek Robinson has had the gall to inflict on Bristol a book which our forefathers would have ordered to be burned by the common hangman,’ wrote an outraged Bristol Evening Post reader in August 1973. The offending book, he continued, was ‘a scandalous libel on our fair city … just a tissue of lies […]

A masterpiece of conspiracy, it constructs its own dark labyrinth from the base materials of human fear and paranoia and is so epic, in fact, that German film studio Ufa had to release it in two parts. Part One (The Great Gambler – A Picture of the Time) introduces arch fiend Dr Mabuse (Rudolf Klein-Rogge), […]

Eugene Byrne is a Bristol-based author, historian and journalist. He has written several books on Bristol’s history, including The Bristol Story (with artist Simon Gurr) and a brief history of council housing in Bristol (with artist Anthony Forbes). He edits the Bristol Post’s ‘Bristol Times’ local history pull-out. This article was written in advance of […]