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“Disabled people is anybody with any impairment who is disabled by the society in which they live.” Alun Davies “It wasn’t your impairments that stopped you. It was the way that society was constructed. It was the way that the buses were inaccessible. It was the way that you couldn’t get into buildings.” Meryl Gaskell […]
Bristol was a central place for Disability activism from the 1980s to 2010. The Social Model of Disability became widely used here long before it did in many other cities. But this history has not been written before – until now. The research and interviews here were carried out by young Disabled volunteers. They gathered […]
Here we meet the Disabled activists who campaigned for equality and independent living, and worked to see the Social Model implemented in Bristol’s services. With this, they changed the lives of tens of thousands of Bristolians. Alun Davies Alun became active in the Disabled people’s movement in 1986 when he joined the Management Committee of the Birmingham […]
Enter the People gallery at M Shed, turn to your left, and you’ll find a display dedicated to the 1831 reform riots in Bristol. It includes a painting by Rolinda Sharples, titled ‘The Trial of Colonel Brereton’: Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Brereton had commanded the military forces in Bristol during the riots. His court-martial trial, for alleged […]
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‘Museomics’ is the genetic study of ancient (aDNA) or historical (hDNA) museum samples. Methods of analysis include DNA barcoding and shotgun sequencing. DNA analysis shows genetic variation across geographic distributions, allowing identification of species’ origin. Museomics can provide information on specimens and their life histories. This information has relevance in education, conservation, and advancing genetic […]
While searching through the museum history files for any references to elephants from Bristol Zoo, I came across File 278: Museum Tiger. Inside was a letter from R. I. Pocock (at that time superintendent at London Zoo) to Bolton (the then current Director of the museum). The relevant part of the letter is transcribed below […]
After the bombing of Bristol Natural Sciences Museum in 1940, many specimens and their records were lost. In some cases, only the specimens themselves remained. The collections at Bristol have also been moved many times (across sites and around the current museum). This has resulted in records ending up misplaced or lost. It’s one of […]
Bristol people are often proud of who they are and how they sound. Home-grown speakers in these clips recorded for the opening of M Shed discuss the Bristol accent, words and phrases unique to the city, and how the accent is judged outside Bristol. bristolmuseums · That Be Bristle – the Bristol accent
1793 Bristol Bridge Riot The new Bristol Bridge built in 1767 was paid for by a toll. Once the cost had been recouped in 1793, the bridge should have become free, but the bridge managers decided to keep the toll. The people of Bristol were angered by this and the toll gates were burnt down […]