Bristol Leisure websites
Website of the award winning science centre. Includes visitor information, what's on guides and learning opportunities.
Covers many aspects of the building and what it provides. Includes a photo gallery, service details, education, choirs and much more.
The Folk House is a community in the centre of Bristol offering arts, crafts, performance and personal development courses. The website includes news, what's on, information about courses available and more.
Fishponds Local History Society site contains a wide range of material, and is particularly strong on Bristol during the Blitz.
The first major institution in the United Kingdom to present the 500-year history and legacy of Britain's overseas empire
Contains an exhaustive list of Bristol churches past and present, with brief comments, photographs, the present status of the building, and links to individual church sites.
Stunning photos, a brief history, costs, message board, sponsorship, news articles and contact details are all covered.
A gateway to 150 websites. "The collection ranges across culture, history, social and economic development, science and art as well as offering regional and national 'sense of place' websites from England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales."
History Footsteps is a Victoria County History site for schools, featuring The Bristol Slave Trail.
"National histories are often guilty of airbrushing over our local identities in an attempt to simplify our past. Legacies' aim is to show the UK's past in all its wonderful diversity." A BBC website.
Community organisation site with extensive historical information.
History and data about local mines and the coalfield as a whole.
"Moving Here is the ultimate database of digitised photographs, maps, objects, documents and audio items recording migration experiences of the past 200 years."
Information on the Museums and Galleries operated by Bristol City Council.
Also known as Discovering Bristol, it looks at Bristol's role in transatlantic slavery.
"The Archive consists of Reece's 40,000 shots of Britain's landscape, buildings and genre. There are forays into the Low Countries 1945/6. The work of some of Reece's contemporaries is also held. The Archive also covers all parts of the city of Bristol and environs from 1840 and is on-going."
"The Regional History Centre aims to promote research and teaching in the history of Bristol and its region..."
A wealth of information on both the SS Great Britain and The Matthew.
"This website will tell you more about the church and provides information for local people including our regular congregation regarding services, music, events and links to other sites."
Contains information about your area from the 2001 census - and from every earlier British census back to 1801. The information can be presented as maps of the whole country or as graphs.
Bristol's official tourism site.
