BRISTOL LOCAL HISTORY BOOK FAIR - SATURDAY, 6 DECEMBER

Join us for the annual Bristol Local History Book Fair. Books and pamphlets on sale from Bristol publishers, authors and societies.

SATURDAY, 6 DECEMBER, 2014 (10AM - 5PM)

Browse a wide selection of local history titles and listen to FREE TALKS in the afternoon.

Booksellers will include Bristol Books, Bygone Bristol, Redcliffe Press, the South Gloucestershire Mines Research Group and Tangent Books, several independent authors – and more.
(Veronica Bowerman will be there!)

10am-1pm

Family history advice from the Bristol & Avon Family History Society

1.30pm – Bristol: the City at War, 1914-1918 (Eugene Byrne, co-author of ‘Bravo Bristol!’)

As a major British city and port, Bristol played a key role in the First World War. Join Eugene for stories of Bristolians on the battlefield, on the Home Front and in the war at sea.

2.30pm – Unmarked Graves: the Eastville Workhouse Project (Dr Di Parkin, Bristol Radical History Group)

Between 1855 and 1895, over 3,000 paupers were buried in unmarked graves near Eastville Workhouse on Fishponds Road. Di Parkin will present a project to uncover the names of the people buried there.

3.30pm – Bristol’s Treasure Island Influences (Mark Steeds, Long John Silver Trust)

Hear from Mark about the pirates and privateers that inspired Robert Louis Stevenson to set parts of his classic book in the city.

Photo courtesy of the McNeill/Sleigh families.
(Eric McNeill was Minister at the United Reformed Church in the 1920s and lived in this thatched cottage)