Category Archive: Know your Bristol Stories

World War One layers added to Know Your Place

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Two new layers have been added to Know Your Place that cover all the known sites in Bristol that have a relationship to the First World War. A lot of this information is… Read More

Digital Storytelling

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Cheaper and better quality digital cameras, scanners and computers in the mid 1990s led to an explosion of more democratic content creation. The BBC led the way with Video Diaries, using small Hi-8… Read More

Sharing stories

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A few weeks ago, some of our Know your Bristol team went to a Research for Community Heritage Showcase, organised by the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s Connected Communities Programme. Admittedly, it would… Read More

Their lives beneath our feet

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With the anniversary of the start of the First World War only months away, the war history of Avonmouth and Shirehampton has been a central topic of the All Our Stories throughout 2013.… Read More

Stories from the War – Avonmouth and Shirehampton

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It’s been nearly a hundred years since the start of the First World War but the history and heritage of it is still with us – something that was clearly shown at our… Read More

Knowing our Bristol

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How well do you know your neighbourhood? This has been the question at the heart of Know your Bristol as it aims to celebrate memories of Bristol as seen through the eyes of… Read More