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Bristol

Q. What has the Mangla Dam in Pakistan have to do with the fact that many of Bristol's taxi drivers are 'Mirpuris' from Pakistan?

The story of Hannah Nonmus

While the civil rights marches and bus boycotts took place in the Southern States of the USA here in Bristol in 1963 black workers had to fight the

Rais Hyder came to England in 1962 from Karachi in Pakistan.

This book contains the names of the various Welsh traders (mostly women) who traded on the Welsh Back in Bristol in the eighteenth and early ninete

Later medieval Bristol was one of England’s three largest cities, and its most important provincial port, so it is not surprising that it attracted

The table shows people of African descent  who lived in Bristol. Scipio Africanus  (1720) was one of them.

The Malcom X Elders, inclusing Princess Campbell. 

By 2001, some sixty years of 'Asian migration' had had a discernible impact on Bristol's cityscape.

Joseph St. Clair, ‘the black dentist’ from Barbados married a Bristol girl, Mabel Stallard, and made a relatively good living in interwar Bristol.

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