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Sappho & Her Sisters: Steamships and Mariners of the Bristol Channel Ports in the Age of Steam

I wrote the above book, “Sappho & her Sisters” following a chance discovery of the seamen belonging to Bristol Steam Navigation Company’s ship “Sappho” who had the misfortune to be “Bottled Up” in Hamburg...
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Bristol and Lubeck

The people of medieval Bristol were so closely linked to a German port in the Baltic Sea that the two populations shared a unique type of worm living in their guts. The bizarre discovery...
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Some distressed Bristol Seamen and their dependents, 1758

Jonathon Bisp of Winterbourne, c1754, who appears in my Kingswood Index (elsewhere on this site) was apparently also nown as “Bliss”.  In 1996, Mrs Walsh, a descendant of the Bisp Family, sent me a...
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Bristol Men in Nelson’s Navy

Bristol and other local Men at Trafalgar, 1805. Royal Navy (of Bristol unless otherwise stated) John Alden, 20, Landsman, HMS Naiad, 1804 William Alden, 35, AB, HMS Thunderer, 1805 John Allen, 20, Landsman, Bath,...
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“We shall remember them” : Brislington and St Anne’s in the Great War 1914-1919

If you attend church on Remembrance Sunday it is quite likely you will hear the names of the local War Dead read aloud by a member of the congregation.  St Luke’s, Brislington is no...
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