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Blood pressure monitors are now available to borrow free of charge from all libraries across Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
A book chronicling the sketches and observations of ornithologist Robin Prytherch, who studied the habits of buzzards in the Gordano Valley, North Somerset has just been published.
Enterprise Mobility and the National Literacy Trust launch their third year of partnership by donating 765 books to children at 12 schools in Bristol. This donation is part of a larger initiative distributing 25,000 books across the UK.
Bristol-based author Martin J. Powell will be talking about his new historical novel Maid of the Haystack at Heron Books in The Clifton Arcade, Bristol on Saturday May 20.
Bristol Stanza Group and Lyra Festival present 'Walking Words'. Both a book and a digital walking trail, accessible through a mobile app where spoken versions of the poems are triggered on your mobile phone as a participant walks past the specific poem sites. The book, published by Bristol Books is based on the poems and is on sale throughout the Lyra annual Bristol Poetry Festival, which this year runs from April 22 to May 1.
Letters and diaries written by passengers on the SS Great Britain when it sailed the high seas have inspired a Bristol poet to produce a unique anthology.
An eighteenth-century pioneer of jabs against smallpox; a great reformer in the often-brutal treatment of mental illness; an amateur GP who gave away free pills to the poor. They were all prominent doctors in Bristol 200 years ago - and all were Quakers.
An eighteenth century pioneer of jabs against smallpox; a great reformer in the often brutal treatment of mental illness; an amateur GP who gave away free pills to the poor. They were all prominent doctors in Bristol 200 years ago - and all were Quakers.
Book lovers in the Mendip area will soon be able to clear out the books they have accumulated during lockdown with the re-opening of Bookbarn.
