After the First World War the government announced its intention to provide 'homes fit for heroes' for returning servicemen and their families.
Though the Bristol public had raised a generous sum for Irish famine relief in 1847, the prospect an increased flow of largely poor and Catholic Ir
The St Paul's Carnival is a barometer of the social and ideological changes within Bristol's race relations.
The National Archive, E179/113/103: 1440 grant of Alien Subsidy, Bristol return dated 27 July 1441 (extract)
Although sources for Exmoor's medieval history are scarce compared with neighbouring areas there is some interesting material.
Traditional haymaking near Winsford
Blue Gate mine, Exmoor, with engine pumping during an attempt to reopen the mines just before the First World War
Sixteenth-century wood carving in Molland church.
Late 17th-century Hele Bridge farmhouse, Dulverton.
The Dulverton mill leat starts at the weir in Lady Street where it leaves the river Barle to flow south through the western side of the town before
