Events

Forthcoming events

Bristol’s tobacco industry walk: 7th and 25th May 2025

Two guided walks providing an introduction to the history of Bristol's tobacco industry told through its buildings.
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William Worcestre’s Bristol: 21st May 2025

Pete Insole leads an intriguing two-hour walk in the footsteps of William Woresctre, a famous medieval visitor to Bristol.
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Visit to the Assembly building: 30th May 2025

A visit the Assembly office building hosted by Patrick Davis, of Bell Hammer the developer, and Stephen Taylor of AHMM, the architects.
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Events being planned

  • Wednesday 18th June 2025, 7.30pm: Design Awards in the Bristol Digital Futures Institute in Avon Street.  Unusually this year we will have a hybrid event. The  plan is to invite the Civic Society Judging Panel plus the Design Award winners (3 in total this year) to be in the building – we have trialled this by broadcasting from one of the studios. We can then broadcast the event to a much wider audience via Zoom. Around 20 folk will be actually there in person. 
  • Tuesday 24th June 2025, 6.30pm for 7.30pm: Civic Society AGM, at the Mount Without.

General information

  • Booking for events is via emails, normally sent out some four weeks before.
  • To receive the events emails, you need to be subscribed to the events mailing list.
  • Events are in principle open to non-members as well, but where numbers are limited they are advertised to members first.
  • Zoom events are free, but there is normally a small charge for others.

Event videos

Video of Temple Island Zoom event: 19th February 2025

Video of the Bristol Civic Society Zoom event in which Legal & General present their proposals for the development of Temple Island.
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Video of Planning and Building of Hartcliffe: 22nd January 2025

Video of a Zoom talk on the planning and building of Hartcliffe by Paul Smith, Chief Executive of Elim Housing Association.
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Video of ‘Community-led housing’: 4th December 2024

Video of a Zoom talk on community-led housing by Dr Jim Hudson, of the School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol.
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Past events

Bristol cultural renaissance: 30th April 2025

A Zoom event in which Andrew Kelly explores the idea of Bristol, cities and renaissance.
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Bristol’s shape-shifting history: 26th March 2025

Pete Insole's talk explains how the community atlas project came about and how the Bristol we know today has been shaped and defined since 1373.
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Western Harbour masterplan: 6th March 2025

A Zoom presentation of the Western Harbour masterplan by consultants Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands and Emily Price from Bristol City Council.
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