A city councillor has resigned from the committee that manages Bristol’s famous Downs and called for a repeal of the 163-year-old Act of Parliament that gives power to the Society of Merchant ...

The Society of Merchant Venturers have defended the 163-year-old law which means they ‘manage and protect’ Bristol’s famous Downs area, after a city councillor called for the law to be repealed. The ...

A generation of schoolchildren in South Bristol have been ‘left behind’ by the poor leadership of an academy trust run by the Society of Merchant Venturers and the University of Bristol, and their ...

For five centuries, a small group of wealthy men has exerted enormous influence over the city of Bristol. They built the Clifton Suspension Bridge, the Theatre Royal and made a fortune from the slave ...

BRISTOL.—A prospectus of the Faculty of Engineering, which is provided and maintained by the Society of Merchant Venturers in the Merchant Venturers' Technical College, Bristol, has just reached us.

After protesters dumped a statue of Edward Colston in Bristol harbour in 2020, the city’s Anglican cathedral hastily covered several stained-glass windows. Some commemorate the 17th-century merchant, ...

The charity that runs institutions named after Edward Colston says it is "right" his statue has been removed. The slave trader's statue was pulled down and thrown into Bristol's harbour during a Black ...

The Society of Merchant Venturers have defended the status quo, pointing out that most of it is their land, and is only open to the public because of the 1861 Act. The Society of Merchant Venturers ...

THE Bristol Merchant Venturers' School of Science, Technology, and Commerce, erected at a cost of nearly 50,000l., to replace the old Trade and Mining School, was formally dedicated by the merchants ...