Bristol
Brunel’s Bristol: The SS Great Britain, Clifton Bridge, and the Engineer’s Obsession
Brunel first came to Bristol aged 27 to supervise the Clifton Bridge design competition. He kept coming back for the rest of…
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City Life
Why Bristol Keeps Getting Named Best City to Live In
Bristol wins "best city to live in" surveys with exhausting regularity. Here's what those surveys measure, what they don't, and what Bristol…
City Life
Bristol vs Manchester: Two Cities That Think They’re Cool
Two cities. Both convinced of their own superiority to everywhere that isn't London. Here's a genuinely honest comparison - and a verdict…
Bristol
Massive Attack and the Wild Bunch: How Bristol Invented Trip Hop
Blue Lines came out in 1991 and sounded like nothing else. The Wild Bunch had been building towards it since the early…
Bristol
St Pauls Carnival: 55 Years of Caribbean Bristol in the Streets
The first St Pauls Carnival took place in 1968, organised by a community that was determined to celebrate itself publicly. It has…
Features
Massive Attack, Portishead and the Bristol Sound
The Wild Bunch collective in St Pauls. A handful of producers. A sound system and a city that no one was watching.…
Events
The Balloon Fiesta: Why 500,000 People Come to Bristol Every August
Ashton Court fills with 150 hot air balloons and half a million people every August. Here's why the Bristol Balloon Fiesta keeps…
Culture
Stokes Croft: Bristol’s Most Interesting Street
Stokes Croft is the stretch of Bristol where the city's identity is most contested and most alive. Here's what it is, what…
Bristol
Edward Colston: Who He Was, What He Did, and the Day the Statue Fell
On 7 June 2020, a crowd pulled down a statue that had stood in Bristol for 125 years. The argument about Colston…
Bristol
The 1963 Bristol Omnibus Boycott: Paul Stephenson and the Colour Bar
In April 1963 the Bristol Omnibus Company openly refused to employ Black workers. By August they had backed down. What happened in…
Bristol
Bristol’s Floating Harbour: How the City Stopped Its River and Built an Empire
In 1809 Bristol cut a new channel for the Avon and impounded the old one. The result was the floating harbour -…
Bristol
Banksy: What Is Actually Known, the Early Work, and the Mild Mild West
He went to school in Bristol. His early work was in Easton and Stokes Croft. The Mild Mild West has been on…
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