Better Bristol magazine

Better Bristol is the Bristol Civic Society magazine, funded from members’ subscriptions. The Spring-Summer 2025 issue  is the latest to be published.

Spring-Summer 2025 issue

From the Chair: A vision for our great city? Sandra Fryer.
Too dense, too high: major developments in Bristol.
Community-led housing: Jim Hudson on the housing crisis.
Community Activism in Bristol: Suzanne Audrey on an important new book.
Bristol Nightclub is under threat says Annie McGann.
Avon Needs Trees: Alex Turner tells us about this woodland project.
Ten ways the pandemic changed Bristol: Eugene Byrne investigates
The Woman Who Built Bristol: author Jane Duffus shares some of Volume Three’s secrets.
Stoke Bishop – Bristol’s leafy suburb: Keith Sheather investigates the link between Francis
Tagart and Stoke Bishop’s Jubilee Fountain.
Three landmark buildings paid for by the profits of tobacco: Eugene Byrne reports.
100 years of Bristol in music and film: Clive Burlton from Bristol Books reports.
Broadmead Baptist Church has been awarded Grade II listed status. Mike Manson takes a peek.
Meaningful plaques: Gordon Young reports on the latest blue plaques.
Book Reviews: Mike Manson reads some Bristol books.

Read the Spring-Summer 2025 issue.

Previous issues

Use these links to view or download earlier issues of Better Bristol (PDF files)

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