David Demery, Author at Bristol Civic Society

Samuel Plimsoll and the Campaign to Save Lives at Sea: 13th March 2024

Nicolette Jones, author of ‘The Plimsoll Sensation’, will give a Zoom talk on Samuel Plimsoll, who campaigned for reform of the shipping laws.

A zoom meeting presented by Eugene Byrne on the impact of Spanish flu on Bristol at the end of the First World War.

Video of a Zoom meeting intended to provide a factual briefing about the scale and detail of the housing crisis facing many residents in Bristol.

A rare chance for Civic Society members to tour the ‘Wigwam’, the meeting place of Bristol 1904 Arts.

Our initiative to secure the restoration of Ashton Court Mansion is making positive progress.

A Zoom meeting intended to provide a factual briefing about the scale and detail of the housing crisis facing many residents in Bristol.

Once again the Society is holding a Winter Social in the Watershed early in the New Year.

Visit to the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in Downside Road, Clifton.

On 23 November 2023 in Orchard Street, a blue plaque was dedicated to the Crimea and Indian Mutiny Veterans Association.

Gordon Young will describe the back-stories to 40 plaques, commemorating notable people and buildings where important meetings have taken place.

Gordon Young’s latest walk covers 17th-century King Street, cobbled Welsh Back and the soaring, cathedral-like St Mary Redcliffe church.

Bristol Civic Society members are invited to visit Easton Mosque, one of the oldest places of worship for Muslims across the South West.