Are you on our Zoom list for Wednesday?

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BRISTOL HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION have our second lecture of the 2020-21 season on Wednesday 21st October at 7.30 pm. Professor Josie McLellan
Glad to Be Gay Behind the Wall: LGBT+ activism in 1970s East Germany
I have a zoom list of 46 people who will receive a link on Tuesday.

If you are a Bristol HA member who has not renewed their membership or a national HA member who has not asked to be on the zoom list or just someone who would like to join us please contact me.

Rob Pritchard Bristol Historical Association

Okinawa. Crucible of Hell.

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Saul David delivered an excellent lecture on the Battle of Okinawa. 34 participants took part in our first zoom event and what a story. A kind of sub-tropical Passchendaele. Hundreds of thousands died within weeks of the end of the Second World War. Saul demonstrated a clear link between the battle and the decision to use the atom bombs five weeks later. Saul’s book ‘Crucible of Hell: The Heroism and Tragedy of Okinawa, 1945’ is being published in Japan at a time when there is great controversy over the behaviour of the Japanese Army towards the Okinawans.

Don’t miss out on Zoom

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If you are a national HA member please send your email address to Rob if you want to be on our ZOOM LIST.

If you are a Bristol HA member please renew your membership (£10 this year) so that Rob can put you on the ZOOM LIST.

If you are not a member why not join the Bristol HA for £10 and then Rob can put you on the ZOOM LIST

Medieval Bristol Walk

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We managed to complete our Medieval Bristol tour the day before gatherings were restricted to six people. It was a sunny Sunday as Rob Pritchard led 15 Bristol HA folk around the alleys and back passages of the medieval city.

We started in Castle Park and then followed the line of the city walls finishing back at Bristol Bridge. There is some support for the idea of bringing back the High Cross from Stourhead!