Secret Bristol

Illustrated with memorable photographs throughout, 'Secret Bristol' uncovers some inconvenient historic events to reveal truths that may be brutal or horrific, or just amusingly odd. From prehistory to the present, it takes us on a fascinating journey through royal pageantry, slavery, piracy, food [...]
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Illustrated with memorable photographs throughout, 'Secret Bristol' uncovers some inconvenient historic events to reveal truths that may be brutal or horrific, or just amusingly odd. From prehistory to the present, it takes us on a fascinating journey through royal pageantry, slavery, piracy, food riots and the cruelties inflicted in prisons, reformatories and workhouses. After the First World War, Secret Bristol chronicles the bitterness of soldiers when the promised 'land fit for heroes' failed to materialise, and follows them into the Great Depression of the 1930s and the indignity of the Means Test. Bristol's Second World War contribution to aircraft design and manufacture and the city's munitions industry follow, along with accounts from the Blitz that largely missed the city's docks but destroyed the priceless heritage of its medieval city centre. The 1950s era of 'you've never had it so good', and the Whites Only policy on Bristol buses in the early 1960s take us up to the St Paul's riots in 1980 and beyond.