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Covering Bristol Ideas legacy projects - Festival of the Future City, Festival of Economics, events about ideas - and relevant articles, reviews and links.
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    Bristol Ideas
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    May 1, 2024
    Bristol Ideas closed 1 May 2024. Our X account will report on legacy projects - Festival of Economics and Festival of the Future City - and linked events and articles about ideas. For details of our work see: bristolideas.co.uk/projects/our-p… 1/
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    Jul 28, 2020
    Delighted to announce the appointment of David Olusoga - @DavidOlusoga - as our first patron. David has participated as speaker and chair in festival events - and provided a brilliant essay for our book Council Estate Memories. We look forward to working with him more.
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    Bristol Ideas
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    Apr 5, 2020
    The Queen: “We’ll meet again”:
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    Nov 14, 2014
    Aardman's and Bristol's answer to that Kardashian pic. HT @BristolRed
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    Jan 31, 2021
    Clarke ‘writes with such compassion and humanity that you feel you are in the room with them, weeping for their loss, gasping at their courage and raging at the sacrifice of people facing a lethal virus in a paper mask and a plastic apron.’ thetimes.co.uk/article/breath… 1/2
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    Aug 6, 2020
    This is a fine profile by @kehinde_andrews of local hero Roy Hackett of the Bristol Bus Boycott and other battles for justice.
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    Roy Hackett: the civil rights hero who stood in front of a bus – and changed Britain for ever
    When he arrived in the UK in 1952, he faced vicious racism – and decided to fight back. In the first of a new series, he tells the story of the Bristol boycott
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    Jun 15, 2021
    New edition of @DavidOlusoga’s book arrives - fully revised and a new chapter bringing it up to date with the downfall of the Colston statue. It’s a terrifically important book and one that should be read widely.
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    Bristol Ideas
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    Jul 20, 2018
    It is a quote for the ages:
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    May 22, 2020
    Next week A House Through Time starts on BBC 2 and it’s a Bristol house. Here’s presenter @DavidOlusoga researching the house and its history at Glenside Museum, in a casebook from the archives of the Lunatic Asylum at Bristol Archives (picture credit Bristol Archives):
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    Bristol Ideas
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    Oct 20, 2018
    Visit to Colston Statue to see the response. It’s a powerful piece of work.
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    Sep 3, 2021
    ‘When I was in hospital five years ago, I pretty much reread all of Diana Wynne Jones’s books. I love her take on how magic works, I love her characters, I love her stories. I love pretty much everything about her.’
    Susanna Clarke: ‘Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman taught me to be courageous in writing’
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    Bristol Ideas
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    May 25, 2020
    The new series of A House Through Time starts 21.00 Tuesday. Here’s David Olusoga with Karen Drake and David Drake, owners of 10 Guinea Street (BBC/Twenty Twenty Ltd./Mark Bourdillon). Follow @DavidOlusoga for updates. We have an interview with David 27 May.
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    Jan 3, 2018
    Looking forward to reading this by @davidfrum: ‘Denunciations of the current administration are ubiquitous, but Frum’s incisive prose and optimism—notably, regarding the chances of returning decency and integrity to the Republican Party—set this apart.’ publishersweekly.com/978-0-06-27967…
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    Jul 12, 2020
    David Olusoga - ⁦@DavidOlusoga⁩ - on what next for Bristol: ‘the onus is on those of us who support the de-Colstonification of Bristol to reach out to our fellow citizens who were disturbed by the toppling of the statue...’ 1/2
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    As Colston’s statue lies forlorn in a lock-up, Bristol is working out what its toppling means |...
    The historian and adopted Bristolian on an exciting and painful month in the city