In 1996 the city of Bristol celebrated its maritime past by focusing on key explorers while forgetting to mention their involvement in transatlantic conquests, and in particular in the slave trade. This partial amnesia led to a local controversy and, as a result, Black and White liberals ...
(1838), one of the first transatlantic steamships, and theGreat Britain(1845) the first ocean steamship with a screw propeller, were launched from Bristol, and the mid-19th cent. saw the revival of the port. The city was heavily damaged during World War II. The poets ThomasChattertonand ...
After being found derelict in the Falkland Islands (Malvinas), she was towed back to Britain and has been carefully restored. She now sits in dry dock in all her glory. Brunel later designed a even bigger ship, the Great Eastern which was used to lay the first transatlantic telephone ...
Historians and those with an interest in ships should not miss the SS Great Britain, built in Bristol byIsambard Kingdom Brunelin 1843 and now preserved as a museum in the Great Western Dockyard. It was the first iron-hulled steam-driven passenger ship ever built and makes an interesting att...
full of memorabilia and anecdotes and casting light on everything from the city’s mercantile history and its role in the transatlantic slave trade to its festivals and street-life. head out to the long terrace for fantastic harbour views. the rough guides to england and related travel guides ...
The establishment of slavery and the resulting transatlantic slave trade between Europe and the Americas required a variegated attack from those who viewed freedom and human beings of greater value and importance than property and commerce. Abolitionists aimed to reveal the moral mistake of slavery ...
TheGreat Western(1838), one of the first transatlantic steamships, and theGreat Britain(1845) the first ocean steamship with a screw propeller, were launched from Bristol, and the mid-19th cent. saw the revival of the port. The city was heavily damaged during World War II. The poets Thoma...
Bristol's history is peppered with pioneering seafarers, transatlantic adventurers, slave traders and daring entrepreneurs. Bristol remains a working city. A good place for visitors to start is the impressive new British Empire and Commonwealth Museum, which covers the 500-year rise and fall of the...
It was here that Coleridge's most active and ardent Dissenting days were spent lecturing against the war with revolutionary France, established religion, and the transatlantic slave trade.doi:10.1057/9780230281455_7Peter J. KitsonPalgrave Macmillan UK...