And the winner is...
In our tenth year Bristol Books scooped an award at the 2022 Bristol Life Awards held at Ashton Gate Stadium and attended by hundreds of the city’s business community.
In our tenth year Bristol Books scooped an award at the 2022 Bristol Life Awards held at Ashton Gate Stadium and attended by hundreds of the city’s business community.
The Civic Award was presented to highlight the contribution of an organisation or company which has improved Bristol this year, either a new initiative which makes our city better or commitment to helping develop others, or notable charitable work.
The judges said on naming Bristol Books as winners that we: “Published high quality, well-researched books on untold Bristol stories: important work in tough times. It has helped authors and contributed to the city’s culture and heritage.”
Directors Clive Burlton and Martin Powell were presented with the trophy by Bristol Life editor Deri Robins and television comedian Mark Olver.
We were shortlisted alongside Ashton Gate Stadium, Bristol City Centre BID, Bristol Nights (Bristol City Council), Hargreaves Lansdown, National Friendly, Richmond Events Management and Where’s It To? (Bristol City Council).
The Bristol Life Awards are the business highlight of the city. They are the most prestigious, most tightly contested Awards with the greatest number of local companies involved.
There are more than 22 categories and the winners are chosen by a panel of independent and impartial judges.
Award Finalists
At Bristol Books we are flattered to be shortlisted for the Civic Award category of this year’s Bristol Life Awards.
At Bristol Books we are flattered to be shortlisted for the Civic Award category of this year’s Bristol Life Awards.
The Award highlights the contribution of an organisation or company which has improved Bristol this year. Some new initiative which makes our city better or commitment to helping develop others, or notable charitable work.
We have been shortlisted alongside Ashton Gate Stadium, Bristol City Centre BID, Bristol Nights, Hargreaves Lansdown, National Friendly, Richmond Events Management and Where’s It To? Some big and impressive names!
The Bristol Life Awards are the business highlight of the city. They are the most prestigious, most tightly contested Awards with the greatest number of local companies involved.
There are more than 22 categories and the winners are chosen by a panel of independent and impartial judges. Winners will be announced at a glittering awards night at Ashton Gate stadium in May.
Book for Elizabeth the 1st
Bristol Books has supported Elizabeth Carr, the first person born through IVF in the USA by publishing "Under The Microscope" , where she gives a first-hand account of growing up under scrutiny after being the product of a scientific breakthrough.
Bristol Books has supported Elizabeth Carr, the first person born through IVF in the USA by publishing "Under The Microscope" , where she gives a first-hand account of growing up under scrutiny after being the product of a scientific breakthrough.
The book outlines Elizabeth's unique story through a series of vignettes of her life, supplemented with additional context on the history of fertility treatment. Sponsored by US-based Brown Fertility, LifeView and Nikon the book was launched in Florida in early March 2022. It follows our publication of Louise Brown's book in 2015 - "My Life As The World's First Test Tube Baby" in hardback in 2015 and later in softback.
Elizabeth has been in the spotlight since she was three cells old when pictures taken with a microscope showed the cells dividing that were to become her. She is now a fearless patient advocate for those going through fertility treatment.
The Bristol Miscellany Quiz
This Christmas we’re delighted to provide you with a festive quiz for you and your friends or work colleagues to share.
All the answers can be downloaded here, but are also found in Manson’s Bristol Miscellany - the perfect gift for a Bristolian this Christmas!
TEN MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
1. In the 1950s crowds gathered on College Green to look at two mysterious figures that had been delivered to the construction site of the Council House. The architect returned from holiday to say they were to go on the roof. What did the figures represent?
2. In what square is there a replica of part of the Bristol High Cross?
3. In the early 1960s Guy Bailey was turned down for a job on Bristol’s buses, why?
4. In what year did John Cabot set sail from Bristol in the Mathew to seek the land of America?
5. What chemical element gives Bristol Glass its distinctive blue colour?
6. The oldest known Mikveh in Europe, dating from 1100, is situated in Bristol. What is a Mikveh?
7. Elizabeth Blackwell was born in Temple Back, Bristol in 1821. What is her claim to fame?
8. What was the surname of the family that owned Ashton Court?
9. Where might you find Western Spike Speedwell, Fingered Sedge and Autumn Squill?
10. Which Bristol building was used for the first time on August 3 1858, replacing a previous facility in Guinea Street?
REALLY OLD BRISTOL!
1. What area of Bristol was known as Abonae in Roman Times?
2. The name Bristol comes from Anglo Saxon words Brycg and Stow. What do they mean?
3. What is the name of the central Bristol pub named after flat-bottomed boats that sailed across to the River Wye?
4. Besides the Avon – what other River flows through Bristol?
5. In what book was Knowle valued at 40 shillings?
POWER & POLITICS
1. Which King created the county of Bristol in 1373?
2. What building in the centre of the city was not included in the county and remained part of Gloucestershire until 1629?
3. After the battle of Bosworth Field in 1485, King Henry VII made a pilgramage to Bristol to give thanks for his victrory at a Holy Well. Where is it?
4. What was the name of the Monastery in the centre of Bristol that was dissolved by Henry VIII?
5. From what island in the Bristol Channel did Marconi send his first radio transmission?
LAW & ORDER
1. In which Bristol pub was the Pie Poudre Court?
2. What building constructed in 1880 was loosely inspired by Carisbrooke Castle and helped with Bristol’s law and order?
3. In what district was a prison built on the site of a pleasure garden following the 1877 Prison Act?
4. Where in 1793 did the militia open fire on a crowd of people, killing 14, during riots?
5. What was the function of the boat named the Pyronaut in Bristol?
MAKING MONEY
1. Who set sail in the Mathew in 1497?
2. What name is given to the “counting tables” that stand in Corn Street where people would conclude deals?
3. What kind of business did Charles Heal & Sons operate in Bristol?
4. What sort of vehicle is a Bristol Type 401?
5. In 1949 the3 then biggest aeroplane in the world was made in Bristol – what was its name?
6. Harvey’s Bristol Cream sherry was a new blend in the 1860s – what was the original sherry dating from the seventeenth centuyry called?
7. What type of bus (designed in Bristol) was driven by Reg Varney in the 1970s comedy On The Buses?
8. In which churchyard is the grave of 18-year-old slave Scipio Africanus?
9. Where did the USA establish its first consulate in Europe in 1792?
10. What was created to provide the main entrance into Bristol’s Floating Harbour?
Click here to download the answers
New Book launch: Shirehampton Sketches
Bristol Books latest publication Shirehampton Sketches will be available to purchase at the Shirehampton local market
Bristol Books latest publication Shirehampton Sketches will be available to purchase at the Shirehampton local market between 10am and 3pm on Thursday 2nd December at the Tithe Barn.
The book has been expertly researched and written by local author Richard Coates and is packed with over 280 pages including 84 short chapters and three features dealing with many different aspects of life and history in the Shire area.