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Bristol Aeroplane Company - The story of the founder of the Bristol Aeroplane Company and that of his family. A resource for researchers.
James Acland - Memoirs of the Radical newspaper proprietor James Acland (1799 to 1876) from his birth until he left Bristol in 1831.
Cabot's Voyage of 1497 - History of John Cabot's voyage from Bristol and discovery of North America, from the Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage Web. Includes a photograph of the Bristol-built replica of his ship, the Matthew.
Fishponds Local History Society - Online illustrated articles on the history of Fishponds and Bristol, old maps, memorials of those who lost their lives in the Blitz and related links. Details of the society and its forthcoming meetings.
Mapping the Town: Bristol - BBC Education gives an illustrated outline of its programme on the development of Bristol in the series presented by Julian Richards.
Bristol History Then And Now - Short factual stories of the city of Bristol and the area of Kingswood Forest: links, maps, bibliography.
Bristol and Avon Archaeological Society - For everyone interested in the archaeology and history of the area. Program of lectures, events, walks and trips. Publishes Bristol and Avon Archaeology: sample contents listed online.
Bristol & Avon Family History Society - Resources for students of local history and geneology: news, membership information, resources, projects, contact details, events.
Bristol's Lost Pubs - A list of pubs that have disappeared from Bristol over the last 150 years or so, plus a record of publicans 1792-1935
The Malago Society - Local history society for south-west Bristol: programme, research, links, contact details.
Bristol Information - Local genealogy and history, including streets, names, businesses, churches, schools, pubs, landlords, facts, pictures.
A Respectable Trade - Comments by local DJ Avalanche on the TV drama highlighting Bristol's role in the 18th-century slave trade, with historical background and links to related sites.
The Frenchay Tuckett Society - Unofficial site for local history group: newsletter, history and links.
Bristol History - Yahoo! group featuring debate about local history.
The Travel Letters and Sketch Books of Anton Bantock - Local historian and author of international travel and local history books. Previews, excerpts and ordering information.
My Life in the Third Reich, by Gisela Cooper - Autobiography by local historian describing her experiences in Germany during the war. Includes previews and excerpts plus poems and stories.
PortCities: Bristol - Find out about Bristol's role in the transatlantic slave trade. Who was involved, what was bought and sold, who stopped it, and what is the effect of the trade today
Bristol History - History of Bristol's political, industrial and seafaring past.
Bristol Threatened History Society - A registered charity which supports local archaeological activity. Aims, history of Bristol, programme of talks.
"If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph. -- Shirley Temple Black In the blithe days of honeymoon, With Kate's allurements smitten, I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon, And call'd her dearest kitten. But now my kitten's grown a cat, And cross like other wives. In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. -- André Maurois The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time History You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. -- Beverly Sills The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . . grand A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are. -- Gore Vidal History To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour. -- Robert L. Stevenson Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out. -- Rick Radebaugh "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders. -- P. J. O'Rourke History I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have th We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx There is no sincerer love than the love of food. -- George Bernard Shaw History "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. -- Wernher Von Braun Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. -- Albert Einstein I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat people. -- Ed Bluestone We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. -- John Stuart Mill History All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl. -- Charlie Chaplin It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. -- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up. -- Anon History "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot- proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. -- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those that break down, and those that get lost. -- Russell Baker History Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. -- Anonymous Why don't you write books people can read? -- Nora Joyce, to her husband James The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. -- Winston Churchill History Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down. - Jimmy Durante "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as children. -- Libby Gelman-Waxner Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion. -- George Santayana History Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. -- Oscar W Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?" Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. -- Semisonic, Closing Time History "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it. - Steven Wright A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it. -- Anonymous "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What do you take me for, an idiot? - General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy History Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded. -- Virginia Woolf Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed. - George Burns "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) History "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Who, being loved, is poor? -- Oscar Wilde The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. -- Paul Valery 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Marry in haste, repent in leisure. -- Tilney History My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me! -- Henry Ford Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.... -- Carl Zwanzig "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) History "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled. -- Paul Eldridge I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again. -- Noel Coward The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can. -- Margo Kaufman Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. History Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. -- John Steinbeck Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in. -- Benjamin Franklin History "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper. -- Smith & Jones To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its prime function of looking forward. -- Margaret Fairless Barber The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant. -- Salvador Dali When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. History "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. -- Beverly Sills blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) History Music is the art of thinking with sounds. -- Jules Combarieu Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them. -- Orison Swett Marden "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. -- Groucho Marx History "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first. -- Anonymous History Hell is a half-filled auditorium. - Robert Frost Whatever you are, be a good one. -- Abraham Lincoln "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses. -- Anon. History "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence. -- Robert Frost Thank heaven. 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