Hidden History Of Bristol

Author : Victor N. Phillips
Publisher : American Chronicles
ISBN 13 : 9781609490478
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hidden History of Bristol written by Victor N. Phillips and published by American Chronicles. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join local author Bud Phillips as he explores the fascinating, and occasionally uproarious, lost tales of Bristol. Legend has it that in 1842 a local slave, Silas Goodson, dreamed of a large city spreading over the hills, and ten years later Bristol was founded on the border of Tennessee and Virginia. Much of Bristol's most unusual history is long forgotten, but local author Bud Phillips's collection of his Bristol Herald Courier columns brings light to the overlooked pages of the past. With stories of a jilted suitor's porcine revenge, the legendary fiddler Nora Cross and the Devil's Hideout and the search for the gold of Rosetta Bachelor, readers will delight in the history that they always wish they knew.

Author : V. N. Phillips
Publisher : History Press Library Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781540224958
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hidden History of Bristol: Stories from the State Line written by V. N. Phillips and published by History Press Library Editions. This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legend has it that in 1842 a local slave, Silas Goodson, dreamed of a large city spreading over the hills, and ten years later Bristol was founded on the border of Tennessee and Virginia. Much of Bristol's most unusual history is long forgotten, but local author Bud Phillips's collection of his Bristol Herald Courier columns brings light to the overlooked pages of the past. With stories of a jilted suitor's porcine revenge, the legendary fiddler Nora Cross and the Devil's Hideout and the search for the gold of Rosetta Bachelor, readers will delight in the history that they always wish they knew. Join Phillips as he explores the fascinating, and occasionally uproarious, lost tales of Bristol.

Author : Charlie Revelle-Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781730798665
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Weird Bristol written by Charlie Revelle-Smith and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you know that a hoard of gold is probably buried somewhere under Bristol? Did you know that a statue in Bristol actually depicts the moment a king is about to die? Based on the popular Twitter feed from acclaimed author Charlie Revelle-Smith, Weird Bristol is an adventure through the dark, mysterious and secret history of an ancient city. From plagues, wars, ghosts and pirates to inventors, fraudsters, suffragettes and radicals. Only one thing is certain, you'll never look at Bristol in quite the same way again...

Author : James MacVeigh
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 144565010X
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Secret Bristol written by James MacVeigh and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2016-06-15 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore Bristol's secret history through a fascinating selection of stories, facts and photographs.

Author : V.N. "Bud" Phillips
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614235392
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ghosts of Bristol written by V.N. "Bud" Phillips and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010-08-27 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A whirlwind ride through the spooky and supernatural, including a ghostly Civil War leftover” (SWVA Today). The nighttime glow of the Cameo Theatre illuminates an apparition of the infamous madam Pocahontas Hale, and the ghost of a young Confederate soldier rises from Cedar Hill to gaze mournfully on his lost homestead—these are the haunts of the Twin Cities. Local author Bud Phillips takes readers on an eerie, and sometimes humorous, journey through the ghostly lore of Bristol, Virginia and Tennessee. From the terrifying specter of a headless hobo and the spirits of a young couple parted through violence and reunited in death to the organist who played the Sunday after her funeral, Phillips’s collection of tales raises the otherworldly residents of Bristol from the shadows. Includes photos!

Author : Michael Manson
Publisher : Manson's Bristol Miscellany
ISBN 13 : 9781909446267
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Manson's Bristol Miscellany written by Michael Manson and published by Manson's Bristol Miscellany. This book was released on 2021-04-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Professor of Medieval Literature and Publishing Leah Tether
Publisher : ARC Humanities Press
ISBN 13 : 9781641894142
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bristol Merlin written by Professor of Medieval Literature and Publishing Leah Tether and published by ARC Humanities Press. This book was released on 2021-07-31 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The discovery of seven manuscript fragments of the Old French Suite Vulgate du Merlin in a set of early printed books in the Bristol Central Library hit global headlines in 2019. This book contains a comprehensive study of these fascinating Arthurian fragments. Beginning with an extensive contextual history, the authors reveal details of the fragments' origin, their importation to England, and their subsequent journey to a waste pile in a bookbinder's workshop, where they would be incorporated into the bindings of a four-volume edition of the works of Jean Gerson in the early sixteenth century. A full enquiry into the provenance of these host volumes sets out the possible routes from the bookbinder's workshop to their final home in Bristol Central Library. Using multi-spectral imaging to read the damaged sections of text, the authors also provide a full edition and translation of the narrative contained in the fragments.

Author : Maurice Fells
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750965436
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Little Book of Bristol written by Maurice Fells and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich, and indeed sometimes bizarre, thread of history weaves its way through the Bristol story. Find out all manner of things, from why a 'Bristol Diamond' would never be found in a jewellery shop to why local by-laws restrict carpet beating to certain hours. Along with a fresh look at city life past and present, these and many more anecdotes will surprise even those Bristolians who thought they really knew their city.

Author : V. N. Phillips
Publisher : The Overmountain Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570720833
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of Kings written by V. N. Phillips and published by The Overmountain Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much more than a simple portrait of a pioneer family, this chronicle is actually a history of Bristol from a different perspective. It would be virtually impossible to write a complete history of this city without including a record of the pioneer King family. Likewise, it would be very difficult to write of this family and not become involved in general Bristol history.

Author : Peter Linebaugh
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807050156
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Many-Headed Hydra written by Peter Linebaugh and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the International Labor History Award Long before the American Revolution and the Declaration of the Rights of Man, a motley crew of sailors, slaves, pirates, laborers, market women, and indentured servants had ideas about freedom and equality that would forever change history. The Many Headed-Hydra recounts their stories in a sweeping history of the role of the dispossessed in the making of the modern world. When an unprecedented expansion of trade and colonization in the early seventeenth century launched the first global economy, a vast, diverse, and landless workforce was born. These workers crossed national, ethnic, and racial boundaries, as they circulated around the Atlantic world on trade ships and slave ships, from England to Virginia, from Africa to Barbados, and from the Americas back to Europe. Marshaling an impressive range of original research from archives in the Americas and Europe, the authors show how ordinary working people led dozens of rebellions on both sides of the North Atlantic. The rulers of the day called the multiethnic rebels a 'hydra' and brutally suppressed their risings, yet some of their ideas fueled the age of revolution. Others, hidden from history and recovered here, have much to teach us about our common humanity.