The Bristolian who honoured the dead by Michael Pascoe.
Holidaymakers speeding to the south of France cannot fail to notice the thousands of gravestones of those who lost their lives in the two world wars. Yet, without the efforts of one Bristolian, these immaculately-tended military cemeteries might well not have existed.
The cemeteries owe their being to [...]
Issue Number 6 Summer 2008
Features from this issue:
Sir Fabian Ware
June 16th, 2008 ·
Theatre of Social Change
June 12th, 2008 ·
Shirley Brown discovers how some ex-Bristol Old Vic staff are using theatre skills to make a difference to young people’s lives
A Tuesday afternoon in the bar of the Colston Hall. The last of about forty teenagers have straggled in and settled on rows of chairs around a small square stage. Three actors signal the start [...]
Bristol Lives, Diverse or Divided?
June 9th, 2008 ·
Bertel Martin introduces the Port City Writing Project with Edson Burton’s thoughts on modern life in Bristol
What’s so special about Bristol? What’s so special about living in a city which has a port? A number of cities in the United Kingdom and abroad are port cities, but is it possible to claim they are each [...]
Redcliffe’s 200th Bristol Book
June 9th, 2008 ·
John Sansom has been busy publishing books about bristol for over 30 years. Briohny Keble talked to the man behind Redcliffe Press as it gets ready to celebrate its 200th Bristol book…
Back in 1989 Redcliffe Press celebrated its first big milestone – the publication of 50 books about Bristol – with the claim that no [...]
