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Avon Local History and Archaeology Bristol Archives - online catalogue Bristol Branch of the Historical Association Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society Regional History Centre, University of the West of England |
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Electronic Publications of Bristol Records and Secondary Works
[archive.org] Alfred B. Beaven, Bristol Lists: Municipal and Miscellaneous
(Bristol, 1899) [archive.org] Joseph H. Bettey, Bristol
Observed: visitors’ impressions of the City from Domesday to The Blitz
(Redcliffe, Bristol, 1986) Francis B.
Bickley (ed.), The Little Red Book of
Bristol (Bristol, 1900) Vol. 1 [archive.org] Francis B.
Bickley (ed.), The Little Red Book of
Bristol (Bristol, 1900) Vol. 2 [archive.org] Henry Bush, Extracts
of Key Primary Sources Illustrative of the Local Taxation of the Town of
Bristol, from the Thirteenth Century Onwards (Bristol, 1824)
[British History Online edition, sponsored by the BRS] Wendy Childs, Anglo-Castilian
Trade in the later Middle Ages (Manchester University Press, 1978) [e-published by the BRS with permission of the author, 23
MB file. Additional copy posted on archive.org
by the BRS] Clifton College, The
History of Saint Agnes Parish, 1876-1890 (Arrowsmith, Bristol, 1890) [e-published by the BRS with permission of the author, 152
MB file] Susan Flavin & Evan T. Jones (eds.), Sixteenth-century
Bristol customs accounts transcribed in EXCEL workbooks (2008) Francis
F. Fox (ed.), Adams’s Chronicle of
Bristol (Bristol, 1910) [archive.org] Alexander
Higgins, ‘The Establishment of the Head Port of Gloucester, 1565-1584 (Mphil Thesis, University of Bristol, 2012)
[Reproduced with permission of the author: University of Bristol website] William Hunt, Bristol
(Historic Towns) (London, 1887) [e-published by the BRS, 82 MB file. Additional copy posted
on archive.org
by the BRS] Evan
T. Jones, 'Bristol Shipping Industry in 16th Century' (PhD thesis, University
of Edinburgh, 1998) [Reproduced with permission of the author: University
of Bristol website] [Digital version of the book (with some images deleted for
copyright reasons) e-published by the BRS, 70 MB file. Additional copy posted
on archive.org
by the BRS] Evan T.
Jones (ed.), Bristol Annal: Bristol Archives 09594/1 (version 30
Sept 2019) [This is a draft annotated transcription that will
be updated periodically. Photographs
of the manuscript (137 MB) have also been made available with the
permission of Bristol
Archives. This was done so that researchers can check the transcription
against the photographs and to reduce the need for scholars to consult this
fragile manuscript.] [e-published by the BRS with the permission of the author,
1 MB file. Originally created as a free leaflet, printed on A3 paper and distributed by the Bristol Museums Service] John
Latimer, The Annals of Bristol in the Nineteenth Century (Bristol, W.
& F. Morgan, 1887) [archive.org] John
Latimer, The Annals of Bristol in the Eighteenth Century (Bristol, privately
printed, 1898) [archive.org] John Latimer, The
Annals of Bristol in the Seventeenth Century (Bristol, William George’s
Sons, 1900) [archive.org] John
Latimer, The History of the Society of Merchant Venturers of the City of
Bristol (Bristol, Arrowsmith, 1903) [archive.org] John
Latimer, Sixteenth-Century Bristol (Bristol, Arrowsmith, 1908)
[archive.org] C. M. MacInnes, A
Gateway of Empire (Bristol, 1939) [e-published by the BRS, 163 MB file. Additional copy posted on archive.org
by the BRS]. Digitisation sponsored by Dr John Reeks. [e-published by the BRS, 307 MB file. Edited volume
originally published by the University of Bristol. Additional copy posted on archive.org
by the BRS] C. M. MacInnes, Bristol
at War (London, Museum Press, 1962) [Written by Charles MacInnes, CBE, Professor of History,
University of Bristol: ‘To the People of Bristol’] T. J. Manchee, Bristol Charities, Vol. 1 (Bristol, 1831)
[google books] Patrick McGrath
(ed.), The Marchants Avizo by I[ohn] B[rowne,] Marchant, 1589
(Harvard, 1957) [e-published by the BRS with permission of the author’s
children/heirs, 21 MB file] Patrick McGrath and
Mary E. Williams (eds.), Bristol Inns and Alehouses in the Mid-Eighteenth
Century (Bristol, 1979) [e-published by the BRS with permission of the Society of Merchant Venturers,
215 MB file] G. Munro
Smith, History of Bristol Royal Infirmary (Bristol, 1917)
[archive.org] [e-published by the BRS, 53 MB file] [archive.org. Note vols. 1 & 2 are not currently
available online] E. R. Norris Mathews, Bristol Bibliography: a catalogue
of the books, pamphlets, collectanea, etc., relating to Bristol, contained in
the central Reference Library (1916) ‘William Morgan’s Annals
of Bristol, 1246-1687’ in William
Tyson, The Bristol Memorialist
(Bristol, 1823), pp. 38-44, 115-122, 189-201, 287-293. [Annals section e-published by the BRS] Mark
C. Pilkinton (ed.), Records of Early English
Drama: Bristol (University of Toronto Press, 1997) [archive.org] C. M. Senior, A
Nation of Pirates: English Piracy in its Heyday (Newton Abbot, 1976) [e-published by the BRS with permission of the author, 49
MB. Additional copy posted on archive.org
by the BRS]. Digitisation sponsored by Dr Richard Stone. Paul Slack, 'The
Local Incidence of Epidemic Disease: the Case of Bristol 1540-1650' in Slack,
Paul (ed.), The Plague Reconsidered:
A new look at its origins and effects in 16th and l7th
Century England (Local Population Studies Supplement, 1977) William
Tyson, The Bristol Memorialist
(Bristol, 1823) Edith E.
Williams, The Chantries of William Canynges in
St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol (Bristol, 1950) [e-published by the BRS with permission of St Mary
Redcliffe. Additional copy posted on archive.org
by the BRS] Links: Electronic Publication of Visual Works In August 2020, the Bristol Record Society received a
generous donation from Anistatia and Jared Brown to
sponsor a new element to our Digitisation Initiative:
the high-resolution digitisation and electronic publication of 17th-18th
century topographical prints of Bristol. The prints come from the collection
of the Society of Merchant
Venturers and are being made available on a Creative Commons Licence (CC BY). Any use can
be made of the images, in whole or part, provided users attribute the Society
of Merchant Venturers and the Bristol Record Society in any publications. The
digitisation was carried out by Jamie
Carstairs, University of Bristol. Samuel and
Nathaniel Buck, The South East Prospect of the City of Bristol
(London, 1734) [80 MB tif]. Sponsors: Anistatia and Jared Brown. Samuel and
Nathaniel Buck, The North East Prospect of the City of Bristol
(London, 1734) [80 MB tif]. Sponsors: Anistatia and Jared Brown. James Millerd, Map of Bristol: 1728 version
(Bristol, 1728). [63 MB tif]. Sponsors: Anistatia and Jared Brown. ·
Nine photographs, taken in a 3x3 grid of the main map: top left, top middle, top right, middle left, middle middle,
middle right, bottom left, bottom middle, bottom right. ·
Border images: All Saints Church & Tolzey, Bristol
Bridge, Castle, Cathedral, Cathedral Great Gatehouse, Corn Market, Custom House, Great House, Great House in
Redcliffe, Guildhall,
High Cross, Hotwells, St Mary Redcliffe church,
Merchant’s Hall, Prospect of Bristol, Prospect of Bath, Queen’s Crest, Royal Crest, Severn map, St Stephen’s church, Tolzey. |
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The Bristol Branch of the Historical Association: Local History Pamphlets
From 1960-2007, the Bristol
Branch of the Historical Association issued a series of 120 pamphlets aimed
at making Bristol’s history available to a wider audience. For most of the period the pamphlet series
was produced by the Department of
History, University of Bristol. In its later years this endeavour was led
by the Regional
History Centre, University of the West of England. Many of the
contributors were academics or local scholars. Every pamphlet was subject to
peer review by academics from the Bristol branch.
In 2007 the Bristol branch of
the Historical Association went into suspension. The pamphlets ceased to be
issued and became increasingly difficult to obtain. Given that they contain a
huge amount of valuable research, the Bristol Record Society, in
collaboration with the re-established Bristol
branch of the Historical Association (2017-), started making digitized
copies of the pamphlets available free of charge in March 2019. Duplicate
copies can also be found on the Bristol HA website. All copies have
been subject to Optical Character Recognition. This makes it possible to
search them, copy text and use screen reading software.
In all cases the copyright of
the pamphlets remains with the original authors, or their heirs – albeit no
fees or royalties were ever paid to the authors, either for the original
editions or any re-prints. Where possible, we have sought to contact copyright
owners of these pamphlets. To date we have succeeded in contacting the
copyright owners of 41 pamphlets – all of whom were pleased to see their
pamphlets reproduced this way. If you
are the copyright owner of any title and wish to confirm your willingness for
us to e-publish it this way, or to say that you would rather not have the
item made available, please email Dr Evan
Jones: the Digitization Officer for both the BRS and the BHA.
This initiative is dedicated to
Dr Joseph Bettey, formerly of Extra-Mural Studies
at the University of Bristol. For decades Joe was heavily involved with both
the Bristol Record Society and the Bristol Historical Association. He is the
author of seven of the pamphlets and was an Editorial Advisor to the Bristol
HA pamphlet series to its very end. Joe is also the author of two BRS volumes
and numerous other local history publications. We admire all the
authors of the pamphlets for their selfless work and also pay tribute to
Peter Harris, who was central to the production and distribution of the
pamphlets from the start. The BRS feel that Joe, however, deserves special
recognition for his decades of dedication to Bristol scholarship and public
engagement. No modern scholar has done more to bring Bristol’s history to a
wider audience.
Note: Many of the pamphlets
were reprinted. The digitized versions found below were taken from the best
available copy, which may be a reprint.
Notes on Bristol History
From 1953-1971, the University
of Bristol’s Department of Extra-Mural Studies (later, Department of Adult Education)
produced nine volumes of document transcriptions and mini research studies.
These were typed-up, a small number were copied and they were then deposited
at local libraries. The standard of the work is variable, so the user would
be wise to employ the material with caution.
Nevertheless, the Notes do
contain document transcriptions and basic research not found elsewhere. Since
few are aware of this resource, details are reproduced below:
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