In a dwelling on College Green (demolished in 1860, on the site now occupied by the Marriott Hotel), during 1764, Mrs Frances Ruscombe and her maid, Mary Sweet, were brutally murdered. Thomas de Quincey, author of Confessions of an English Opium Eater, makes mention of this in his essay ‘On Murder considered as One of the Fine Arts’, first published in Blackwoods’s Magazine in 1827.
Project Layers
- Anti-Apartheid
- Bristol's Industrial Revolution
- Chatterton, Wordsworth and Coleridge
- Deaf community
- Know your Bristol
- Know Your Greenbank
- Knowle West
- Music
- Romantic Era
- Romantic Era Revisited
- Schools
- SMRT family history
- St Katherine's WW1 project
- Theatres of the City
- Vaughan postcard collection
- Women of East Bristol
- Women Writers