It is possible to sponsor particular projects you have an interest in – such as the production costs involved in producing a specific new volume or programme of digitisation.
Sponsorship can relate to specific works: e.g. the donation of books for digitisation and/or the costs of professional scanning. To sponsor an individual publication we typically ask £30-50 to help cover the costs involved. Your sponsorship can be recorded on our website and be noted in the Bristol Record Society Collection. This can include dedications if, for instance, you wish to sponsor the digitisation of a book as a gift or memorial.
It is also possible to sponsor larger projects, such as the Topographical Prints project funded by Anistatia and Jared Brown in 2020 to pay for the cost of photographing eighteenth-century maps and prospects of Bristol at high resolution.
Personal sponsors include: Madge Dresser, Alan Hale, Evan Jones, Brian Orchard, John Reeks, Roger & Celia Starr, Richard Stone, Graham Thomas and Derek Winterbottom.
Institutional sponsors include: Avon Local History & Archaeology, Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, Bristol Record Society, Clifton College, Cave Family History Society, Drapers’ Company, Redmaids’ High School and Society of Merchant Venturers.
If you wish to sponsor a project related to our Digitisation Initiative, please contact Dr Evan Jones (University of Bristol), who is our General Editor: Digitisation.
