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Suffolk Poll Book 1790
The 1790 Poll for Knights of the Shire for Suffolk. Digitally enhanced images of the original text. Bookmarked by major headings. Fully printable.... More Info
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The Friends to Literature: Bristol Library Society 1772 - 1864
Kathleen Hapgood 978 1 911592 07 5 The Bristol Library Society took over the old Jacobean library founded by Robert Redwood and operated it until they in turn handed it over to the City Council in 1894. This account therefore illustrates the transition from private charity, via personal subscription, to the rates as the basis for public library provision; and features some of the debates ...More Info
For the Benefit of the Children: the Battle for a Board School in Keynsham, 1870 - 1893
Elizabeth White 978 1 911592 06 8 Keynsham in the late nineteenth century seemed just the place for a free non-denominational Board School under Forster’s 1870 Education Act. But Vicar Gray campaigned successfully against this, and at the same time expanded the Parochial Schools which continued to provide all the primary schooling for the children of the poor in Keynsham until 1954. Her...More Info
Wilkins of Westbury & Redland: the life and writings of Rev Dr Henry John Wilkins (1865-1941)
Richard Coates 978 1 911592 24 2 Henry John Wilkins was a progressive force in local politics before entering the great tradition of English parsons who have been active local historians. The fact that he was particularly a historian of Westbury-on-Trym makes it appropriate that this memoir and detailed bibliography should appear in the year that this parish celebrates its first thirteen ...More Info
Schools, readers and writers in medieval Bristol
Nicholas Orme 978 1 911592 27 3 Bristol was one of England’s leading centres of education and literary culture by the end of the Middle Ages, with schools at several levels. Books were owned and used by clergy, laymen and women, and the city had its own authors, producing works on topics as various as history, topography, civic affairs, alchemy, and poetry. Nicholas Orme is emerit...More Info
Taking the pledge: the Temperance movement in Bristol, 1830 - 1914
Alan Clarke 978 1 911592 30 3 This picture of the Bedminster Temperance Hall and Free Library, built in 1853, well brings out the strong religious tone and affiliations of the temperance movement in Bristol. Here Alan Clarke gives a fully documented account of the movement and the opposition to it – not only from the drinks industry. Although never quite achieving its aims, at the le...More Info