The list below provides links to books, articles and other scholarly works on the history of Bristol. Many have been digitised and epublished by the BRS and can be found on The Internet Archive (archive.org) Bristol Record Society Collection. The works are either out-of-copyright, or have been digitised and epublished with the permission / support of the copyright holder or their heirs.
Arrowsmith, Arrowsmith 1954-1954 1954-1979 (J. W. Arrowsmith Ltd. 2nd ed. 1979)
Barker, W. R., St. Mark’s; or, The Mayor’s Chapel, Bristol, (Formerly called the Church of the Gaunts.) (Bristol: W. C. Hemmons 1892)
Barry, Jonathan, ‘The cultural life of Bristol, 1640-1775’ (D. Phil thesis, University of Oxford, 1985)
Bettey, J. H. (ed.), Studies on the History of Whitchurch (University of Bristol, 1976)
Bettey, Joseph, Church and Community in Bristol during the Sixteenth Century (Bristol Record Society, 1983)
Bettey, J[oseph] H., ‘The Dissolution of St Augustine’s Abbey and the Creation of the Diocese of Bristol’ in Peter Fleming, et al., Regionalism and Revision: The Crown and its Provinces in England, 1200-1650 (Hambledon, 1998)
Bettey, Joseph (ed.), Historic Churches and Church Life in Bristol: essays in memory of Elizabeth Ralph 1911-2000 (Bristol & Glouc. Arch. Soc., 2001)
Bettey, Joseph (ed.), Archives & Local History in Bristol & Gloucestershire: essays in honour of David Smith (Bristol & Glouc. Arch. Soc., 2007)
Bowland, Jas., Peeps into the Past: History of the United Methodist Church, Berkeley Road, Bishopston (Bristol, 1915)
Bristol Committee of the British Association, Bristol and its Environs: Historical, Descriptive and Scientific (London, Houlston and Sons,1875)
Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, The Red Lodge (Bristol, 1986)
Butler, T. Howard, The History of Wm. Butler & Co. (Bristol) Ltd. 1843 to 1943 (Butler & Co. (Bristol) Ltd., Bristol 1954)
Cave, Charles Henry, A History of Banking in Bristol from 1750 to 1899 (privately printed by W. Crofton Hemmons, Bristol, 1899)
Childs, Wendy, Anglo-Castilian Trade in the later Middle Ages (Manchester University Press, 1978)
Clifton College, The History of Saint Agnes Parish, 1876-1890 (Arrowsmith, Bristol, 1890)
Connell-Smith, Gordon , Forerunners of Drake: a study of English trade with Spain in the early Tudor period (1954)
Constantine, Mary-Ann, ‘Combustible Matter’: Iolo Morganwg and the Bristol Volcano (University of Wales, 2003)
Cottle, Basil and Sherborne, J. W., The Life of a University (University of Bristol, 1951)
Cozens, Henry B., The Church of the Vow: a record of the Zion Congregational Church, Bedminster, Bristol, 1830-1930 (St. Stephen’s Press, Bristol, 1930)
Crawford, Anne, A History of the Vintners’ Company (Constable, London, 1977)
Dening, C. F. W., The Eighteenth-Century Architecture of Bristol (J. W. Arrowsmith Ltd, Bristol, 1923)
Dening, C. F. W., Old Inns of Bristol (John Wright & Sons, Ltd., Bristol, 1943)
Dowding, W. L., The Story of Bristol : a brief history for young citizens (The Scholastic Trading Co. Ltd., Bristol, 1906)
The Downs Committee, The Downs: Clifton and Durdham Downs, 1861-1961 (Bristol, 1961)
Dresser, Madge, Black and White on the Buses: the 1963 colour bar dispute in Bristol (Bristol Broadsides Ltd., Bristol, 1986)
Dresser, Madge, Slavery Obscured: The Social History of the Slave Trade in Bristol (Redcliffe Press edition, Bristol, 2007. First published 2001)
Evans, Herbert A., Cambridge County Geographies: Gloucestershire (Cambridge University Press, 1909)
Fitzgerald, Maurice H., The Story of Bristol Cathedral (London, 1936)
Fleming, Peter, ‘Sir Thomas Cheyne, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, 1536-1558: Central Authority and the Defence of Local Privilege’ in Peter Fleming, et al., Regionalism and Revision: The Crown and its Provinces in England, 1200-1650 (Hambledon, 1998)
Fleming, Peter, ‘Politics and the provincial town: Bristol, 1451-1471’ in Keith Dockray and Peter Fleming (eds.), People, Places and Perspectives (Nonsuch, 2005)
Fleming, Peter, ‘Processing Power: Performance, Politics and Place in Early Tudor Bristol’ in A. Compton Reeves (ed.), Personalities and Perspectives of Fifteenth-Century England (ACMRS, 2012)
Fraser, J[uan] Alban, Spain and the West Country (London, Burns Oates and Washbourne Ltd. 1935)
Gordon, Moragh Sanne, The Urban Vernacular of Late Medieval and Renaissance Bristol (Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics: LOT, doctoral thesis, 2017)
Harvey, Charles E. and Press Jon (eds.), Studies in the Business History of Bristol (Bristol Academic Press, 1988)
Higgins, Alexander, ‘The Establishment of the Head Port of Gloucester, 1565-1584’ (Mphil Thesis, University of Bristol, 2012) [Reproduced with permission of the author: University of Bristol website]
Hill, C. P., The History of Bristol Grammar School (Pitmans, 1951; Revised edition, Governors of Bristol Grammar School, 1988)
Home, Gordon (ed.), Cathedrals, Abbeys & Famous Churches: Bristol, Bath & Malmesbury (London, 1925)
Hunt, William, Bristol (Historic Towns) (London, 1887)
Jackson, Edward, A Study in Democracy: being an account of the rise and progress of industrial co-operation in Bristol (Co-operative Wholesale Society’s Printing Works, Manchester, 1911)
Jones, Arthur Emlyn, Our Parish: Mangotsfield, including Downend. A Brief Account of its Origin and History (Bristol, 1899)
Jones, Evan T., ‘Bristol Shipping Industry in 16th Century’ (PhD thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1998) [Uni. Edin. website]
Jones, Evan T. and Condon, Margaret M., Cabot and Bristol’s Age of Discovery (University of Bristol, 2016)
King, Andy, The Centenary of the Cabot Memorial Tower, Brandon Hill, 1897-1997 (Bristol City Council leaflet, 1997)
Knight, Francis A., Cambridge County Geographies: Somerset (Cambridge University Press, 1909)
Large, David, Radicalism in Bristol in the Nineteenth Century (Bristol Record Society, 1981)
Latimer, John, The Annals of Bristol in the Nineteenth Century (Bristol, W. & F. Morgan, 1887)
Latimer, John, The Annals of Bristol in the Nineteenth Century (concluded), 1887-1900 (Bristol, William George’s Sons, 1902)
Latimer, John, The Annals of Bristol in the Eighteenth Century (Bristol, privately printed, 1898)
Latimer, John, The Annals of Bristol in the Seventeenth Century (Bristol, William George’s Sons, 1900)
Latimer, John, The History of the Society of Merchant Venturers of the City of Bristol (Bristol, Arrowsmith, 1903)
Latimer, John, Sixteenth-Century Bristol (Bristol, Arrowsmith, 1908)
Lobel, M. D. and Carus-Wilson, E. M. , ‘Bristol’ in M. D. Lobel (ed.) The Atlas of Historic Towns, Vol 2 (London, 1975)
MacInnes, C. M., A Gateway of Empire (Bristol, 1939)
MacInnes, C. M. & Whittard, W. F. (eds.), Bristol And Its Adjoining Counties (University of Bristol, 1955)
MacInnes, C. M., Bristol at War (London, Museum Press, 1962)
McGrath, Patrick, ‘Merchant shipping in the seventeenth century: the evidence of the Bristol deposition books, part I’, Mariner’s Mirror, 40 (1954), 282-93
McGrath, Patrick, ‘Merchant shipping in the seventeenth century: the evidence of the Bristol deposition books, part II’, Mariner’s Mirror, 41 (1955), 23-37
McGrath, Patrick, The Merchant Venturers of Bristol: A History of the Society of Merchant Venturers of the City of Bristol from its origin to the present day (Society of Merchant Venturers, Bristol, 1975)
Memoirs Illustrative of the History and Antiquities of Bristol, Proceedings of the Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (London, 1853)
Moon, Norman S., Education For Ministry: Bristol Baptist College, 1679-1979 (Bristol Baptist College, Bristol, 1979)
Moore Smith, G. C., The Family of Withypoll (Walthamstow Antiquarian Society, no. 34, 1936)
Munro Smith, G. , History of Bristol Royal Infirmary (Bristol, 1917)
Nicholls, J. F. and Taylor, John, Bristol Past and Present, Vol I – Civil History (Bristol, J. R. Arrowsmith, 1881)
Nicholls, J. F. and Taylor, John, Bristol Past and Present, Vol II – Ecclesiastical History (Bristol, J. R. Arrowsmith, 1881)
Nicholls, J. F. and Taylor, John, Bristol Past and Present, Vol III – Civil and Modern History (Bristol, J. R. Arrowsmith, 1882)
Nicholls, J. F., The Remarkable Life, Adventures and Discoveries of Sebastian Cabot of Bristol, the Founder of Great Britain’s Maritime Power, Discoverer of America, and its First Colonizer (Sampson Low, son and Marston, London, 1869)
Pryce, George, A Popular History of Bristol, Antiquarian, Topographical and Descriptive, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time (Bristol, W. Mack, 1861)
Ralph, Elizabeth, Brown, Harold G. & Redmayne, Paul, English City: the growth and future of Bristol (University of London Press, Jan. 1945)
Ralph, Elizabeth and Evans, Henley, St. Mark’s The Lord Mayor’s Chapel Bristol (formerly the chapel of the Gaunts’ Hospital) (Corporation of Bristol, 1950)
Ralph, Elizabeth, Government of Bristol, 1373-1973 (Bristol City Council, 1973)
Reid, W. N. and Hicks, W. E., Leading Events in the History of the Port of Bristol (Bristol, 1877)
Roslyn, H. E., The History of the Antient Society of St. Stephen’s Ringers, Bristol (Bristol, St Stephen’s Press, 1928)
Ross, James, The Cathedral Church of Bristol: Historical and Descriptive Handbook (Bristol, 1930)
Sampson, Walter Adam, A History of the Bristol Grammar School (J. W. Arrowsmith Ltd., Bristol, 1912)
Sampson, Walter Adam , The Life of the Rev. Thomas White D.D.: with an account of the Temple Hospital, Bristol and Sion College, London (Arrowsmith, Bristol, 1912)
Sanigar,W. T., Houses and People of Old St George: further records of a Bristol parish (Bristol, 1936)
Senior, C[live]. M., A Nation of Pirates: English Piracy in its Heyday (Newton Abbot, 1976)
Shaw, Mabel G., Redland High School (Bristol, 1932)
Slack, Paul, ‘The Local Incidence of Epidemic Disease: the Case of Bristol 1540-1650’ in Slack, Paul (ed.), The Plague Reconsidered: A new look at its origins and effects in 16th and 17th Century England (Local Population Studies Supplement, 1977)
Stone, George Frederick, Bristol: as it was and as it is. A record of fifty Years’ progress (Bristol, 1909)
Stone, George F. and Wells, Charles (eds.), Bristol and the Great War 1914-1919 (Bristol, Arrowsmith, 1920)
Taylor, John, Antiquarian Essays contributed to the “Saturday Review” (Bristol, 1895)
Till, Roger, Wills of Bristol (W. D. & H. O. Wills, Bristol, 1950)
Tombs, R. C., The Bristol Royal Mail. Post, Telegraph, and Telephone (J. W. Arrowsmith, 1899)
Vanes, Jean, Apparelled in Red: The History of the Red Maids School (Alan Sutton Publishing Ltd., Stroud. Glos., 1984, revised edition 2014)
Wilkins, H. J., Some Chapters in the Ecclesiastical History of Westbury-on-Trym (Arrowsmith, Bristol, 1909)
Wilkins, H. J., Edward Colston [1636-1721 A.D.]: A chronological account of his life and work together with an account of the Colston Societies and memorials in Bristol (J. W. Arrowsmith Ltd., Bristol, 1920)
Wilkins, H. J., Redland Chapel and Redland (Bristol, 1924)
Wilkins, H. J., Edward Colston [1636-1721 A.D.]: Supplement to a Chronological Account of his Life and Work (Bristol, 1925)
Williams, Edith. E., S. Mary Redcliffe: “The fairest, goodliest, and most famous parish Church in England.” (Bristol, 1931)
Winterbottom, Derek, Henry Newbolt and the Spirit of Clifton (Redcliffe Press, Bristol, 1986)
Winterbottom, Derek, Clifton after Percival: a public school in the twentieth century (Redcliffe Press, Bristol, 1990)
Winterbottom, Derek, Bertrand Hallward: First Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nottingham, 1948-1965. A Biography (The University of Nottingham, Nottingham, 1995)
Winterbottom, Derek, Dynasty: The Polack Family and the Jewish House at Clifton, 1878-2005 (The Polack House Educational Trust, 2008)
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