BBC’s A House Through Time series from 2020 is currently being repeated on BBC4 (also available on BBC iPlayer). The show, featuring David Olusoga, resulted in Peter and Sue Cullimore writing their book, Saints, Crooks and Slavers.

Throughout 2023, Bristol Ideas is running Bristol 650, a project which marks the 650th anniversary of Bristol becoming an independent city and county. Bristol Ideas wishes to commission a locally based artist to create an illustration for the cover of the book. 

Bristol Stanza Group and Lyra Festival present 'Walking Words'. Both a book and a digital walking trail, accessible through a mobile app where spoken versions of the poems are triggered on your mobile phone as a participant walks past the specific poem sites. The book, published by Bristol Books is based on the poems and is on sale throughout the Lyra annual Bristol Poetry Festival, which this year runs from April 22 to May 1.

Author Martin J. Powell will be talking about “Maid of the Haystack” at Heron Books in The Clifton Arcade on Saturday May 20.

The archive room of the ss Great Britain was packed for the launch of our latest publication Ship’s Log, a collection of poems by David Punter.