Content generated during research for the paperback book 'Bristol: Ethnic Monorities and the City 1000-2001' (ISBN 13 : 978-1-86077-477-5 ) for the England's Past for Everyone series
English Heritage now have their regional headquarters at number 29 and it is the best preserved of the original buildings in the square.
Many Bristolians had toponymic surnames in the 13th and 14th centuries, that is, names that denote a place or region. There were 33 individuals bea
Sometime in the 1800s, a small number of largely impoverished Italians, some from the mountainous regions of Northern Italy (mainly around Tuscany)
While numerically insignificant, the existence of Black Bristolians is important to document, as they bridge the gap between what we know about the
By 1766 Bishop Newton recorded a total of 42 Jews in the city, 40 of whom lived in Temple.
In the period 1532 to 1552 a total of 3,139 apprentices were registered, of whom 766 came from within Bristol, and 456 from Wales.
The earliest of the European ritual child murder, or bloodguilt, accusations was raised at Norwich in 1144, where the Jewry was accused of crucifyi
Oral testimony is a means of identifying issues or events that might otherwise go undocumented. Those who come to this country to seek a new life
The 1851 census can help us to identify parishes inhabited by first-generation immigrants.
Surviving tax returns for Bristol identify resident alien (foreign) taxpayers for the 1520s, 1540s, and the period from 1571 to 1590.
