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Hace 5 días · Seventy years ago, a musical opened at the Bristol Old Vic which would go on to take the West End by storm and prove a nice little earner for the Old Vic Theatre School and a nice big earner for ...
Hace 4 días · Many were toppled, including a statue of the English slave trader Edward Colston, which was torn down and throw into the canal in Bristol, his birthplace. Video footage of the incident went viral, sparking renewed debate over the memorialising of figures with such violent legacies.
Hace 3 días · Located on 7 Great George Road, The Georgian House Museum explores what a Bristol sugar plantation and slave owner's home might have looked like around 1790. The house was built in 1790 for John Penney, a West India sugar merchant and slave plantation owner, and designed by Bristol architect, William Paty. The grade II listed building was also home to the freed slave Frances Coker who was a ...
Hace 2 días · The first ever theatre production in the Tobacco Factory is their A Journey to Bristol – a short 18th Century comedy set in the city and performed in promenade around the whole building. Not put off by the lack of available running water, electricity, heating or seating, Show of Strength continue to put on work and develop the venue for over five years.
Hace 2 días · The British Empire and the slave trade were not responsible for the United Kingdom’s prosperity, according to new research from the Institute of Economic Affairs, a free market think tank. This analysis comes amid a renewed debate about Britain's colonial legacy sparked by comments from Business and Trade Secretary Kemi Badenoch.
Hace 1 día · Map of Meridian Line set under the Treaty of Tordesillas The Slave Trade by Auguste François Biard, 1840. The Atlantic slave trade is customarily divided into two eras, known as the first and second Atlantic systems. Slightly more than 3% of the enslaved people exported from Africa were traded between 1525 and 1600, and 16% in the ...
Hace 3 días · By road. Located 8 miles north of Bath on A46 and 12 miles east of Bristol on the M4 (2 miles south of M4 junction 18, Tormarton interchange). Parking: Pay and display car parking £2 two hours, £4 all day. Free parking for National Trust members with a valid membership card - please scan your card at the ticket machine for your free ticket.
