Category Archive: Map your Bristol

Know Your Bristol On The Move: The Book

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Here’s a booklet to complement the blogposts and the videos, the exhibitions, memories of street parties, radio broadcasts, film shows and social media exchanges. Capturing all this activity, talk, and creativity, is no… Read More

Silent witness

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This blog was originally written for inclusion in the AHRC’s booklet Big Data in the Arts and Humanities: Some Arts and Humanities Research Council Projects, edited by Andrew Prescott, AHRC Digital Transformations Theme… Read More

Video Blog 19: Know Your Greenbank

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At the beginning of February, the Know Your Bristol team visited the Greenbank Hotel in Easton to explore a different kind of history, “not written about in books”.   The University Of Bristol team… Read More

Video Blog 18: KYB Family History Day at St Mary Redcliffe School

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In February, students from St Mary Redcliffe CE School brought in photos and artefacts for digitising and uploading to the Map Your Bristol website.  Amongst the booty discovered were the employment papers of… Read More

Video Blog 17: A ‘How-To’ for Know Your Place

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A handy ‘How-To’ guide for using Know Your Place… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XDLowloozM

Video Blog 16: Watching KWTV

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Knowle West TV was part of Bristol Channel, Peter Lewis’s pioneering community cable TV experiment from the early 1970s. It aimed to democratise media production and worked with Rediffusion, at the time the… Read More

Video Blog 15: St Katherine’s World War One project

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Year 7 pupils from St Katherine’s School visited M Shed, Bristol Record Office and Bristol University to learn more about World War One to help with their school project. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjjDx6aUfKo

Video Blog 14: Home Movie Day

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It was annual global Home Movie Day on 18th October, and we held a Know Your Bristol on the Move event to coincide with this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSdSba2H3VQ

Map Your Bristol apps available

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The first release of the Map Your Bristol app is now available for iOS and Android devices. The app allows you to browse existing content on the Map Your Bristol website and add… Read More

Video Blog 13: Scenes, Soundsystems and Shebeens

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To kick off the Music Communities strand of Know Your Bristol on the Move and as part of Black History Month we held an event at The Trinity Centre, Old Market on Saturday… Read More