Bristol 2014 is part of the First World War Centenary Partnership
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It is coordinated by Bristol Cultural Development Partnership.
A History of the Great Reading Adventure: Photo Gallery
The first Bristol Great Reading Adventure took place in 2003 with a mass-read of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island. Thousands of people took part, enjoying the thrills of a classic adventure story and using the support material and activities to find out more about Bristol’s seafaring past.
Since then we’ve read John Wyndham’s The Day of the Triffids (2004) and learnt about Bristol’s connection to environmental campaigns and green issues; The Siege (2005) by Bristol-based author Helen Dunmore to mark the 60th anniversary of the end of the Second World War; Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days (2006) as part of the region-wide Brunel 200 programme which celebrated nineteenth-century innovations in transport; Andrea Levy’s Small Island (2007) to examine the continuing legacy of the slave trade, which had been abolished 200 years before; Eugene Byrne and Simon Gurr’s Bristol Story (2008), a 200-page graphic history of the city; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World (2009), linked to learning about evolution in the year that marked the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin and the 150th of the birth of Doyle; and The 2010 Book of Aviation Wonder, a celebration of flight since 1910, the year that the Bristol Aeroplane Company was founded.
