Stories
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Why we no longer keep our dead at home
Today in the UK we rarely sit with, touch, or perhaps even see our loved ones after they’ve died. Past practices were very different and, Claire Cock-Starkey argues, were more helpful for those grieving.
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Sex work and critical campaigners
When campaigners filmed secretly in the club where she worked, exotic dancer Ella Smith felt frightened and degraded. Here she speaks out about the attack on her livelihood.
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Collecting pandemic stories
Find out how personal notebook jottings from two flatmates became ‘Journals of a Pandemic’, a comprehensive diary-keeping project encompassing dozens of writers from a wide variety of backgrounds.
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Cataloguing Audrey
Work begins in earnest to restore order to the archive Audrey Amiss kept of the minutest happenings in her life. Like detectives, the archivists search for subtle clues to chronology in the mass of materials.
Catalogue
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The bristol poll-book: Being a List of the Freeholders and Freemen, Who voted at the General Election for Members to serve in Parliament for the City and County of Bristol, (begun at the Guildhall of the said City Wednesday the 17th of April, 1754, and ended Wednesday the 1st of May following) before Henry Bright, and Thomas Harris, Esqrs. Sheriffs. At which Election the Candidates were, Sir John Philipps, Baronet, Richard Beckford, Esq; and The Hon. Robert Nugent, Esq; Revised and Corrected by the Managers in each Parish.
Bristol (England)Date: [1754]- Books
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A list of the free-holders and free-men, Who Voted at the Election for Members of Parliament For The City and County of Bristol, Begun Wednesday May 15, MDCCXXXIV. Before Michael Pope, and Benjamin Glisson, Esqrs. Sheriffs of the said City and County; By Virtue of His Majesty's Writ to Them directed bearing Test at Westminster the Eighteenth Day of April last, and Returnable the Thirteenth Day of June next. At which Election the Candidates were, John Scrope, Esq; Sir Abraham Elton, Bart. Thomas Coster, Esq; Done from Mr. Coster's Original Poll-Book.
Bristol (England)Date: [1734]- Books
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The bristol poll-book, being a list of persons who voted at the election of a Member to serve in Parliament With Matthew Brickdale, Esquire, for the City and County of Bristol, in the room of Sir Henry Lippincott, Bart. Deceas'd, began at the guildhall of the said city, Wednesday, January, 31, 1781, and ended Saturday, February 24, following, before Samuel Span, and Joseph Smith the Younger Esquires, Sheriffs. At which election the candidates were George Daubeny, Esquire. and Henry Cruger, Esquire. Also, a copy of the petition presented to the House of Commons, by the friends of Henry Cruger, Esq. against the return of George Daubeny, Esq. with the subscribers names subjoined.
Bristol (England)Date: 1781]- Books
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An exact list of the votes of the freeholders and freemen, of the City and County of Bristol, Taken at the Election of Members of Parliament, before John Rich, Esq; and Noblet Ruddock, Esq; Sheriffs. By Virtue of His Majesty's Writ, to them directed, bearing Test at Westminster the 14th of March, 1721-2. and to be returnd the 10th of May following. The Candidates were Joseph Earle, Esq; Sir Abraham Elton, Bar. William Hart, Esq; The Poll began on Wednesday the 28th of March, and Ended the 3d of April. Wherein every Person's Name, Trade, and the Parish where he lived, and for whom he Voted, is Alphabetically Inserted.
Bristol (England)Date: 1722- Archives and manuscripts
Compressing room instructions
Date: 1897 - 1936Reference: WF/CW/02/06/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd