Information about this territory
The Long John Silver Trust [LJST] was founded in 2005, it is a registered Charity (#1110338).
Country of territory
Angleterre
Website
Contact of this territory
The Long John Silver Trust
Mark Steeds
mark@beaufortarms.com
Bristol has been a major inland seafaring port for over 1000 years, and is famous – or infamous – for pirates & privateers, slavers and smugglers, writers & radicals, explorers & innovators.
Link with Robert Louis Stevenson
Stevenson partially set his breakthrough classic, Treasure Island, in the port of Bristol and was great friends with top West Country writers John Addington Symonds and William Ernest Henley. RLS was also an eyewitness to colonial expansion in the late nineteenth century and this is of great interest to the people of Bristol.
The aims of the ‘Long John Silver Trust’
- To celebrate and promote Bristol’s irrefutable links to Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic tale ‘Treasure Island’ the Long John Silver Trust has forged strong links with the European Cultural Route ‘In the Footsteps of Robert Louis Stevenson’, the RLS Club of Edinburgh and the Matthew of Bristol Trust
- To celebrate and promote Bristol’s irrefutable links to Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic tale ‘Treasure Island’ the Long John Silver Trust has forged strong links with the European Cultural Route ‘In the Footsteps of Robert Louis Stevenson’, the RLS Club of Edinburgh and the Matthew of Bristol Trust
- To be educational and inclusive also highlighting contributions to society made by people with disablities. RLS did this with lead characters in Treasure Island such as Blind Pew and Long John Silver himself
- To tackle other themes raised by Treasure Island, such as piracy, slavery and colonialism by trying to establish a museum and memorial to the victims of enslavement in Bristol, focusing in part on radical writers
The aims of the ‘Long John Silver Trust’
To celebrate and promote Bristol’s irrefutable links to Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic tale ‘Treasure Island’ the Long John Silver Trust has forged strong links with the European Cultural Route ‘In the Footsteps of Robert Louis Stevenson’, the RLS Club of Edinburgh and the Matthew of Bristol Trust
- To celebrate and promote Bristol’s maritime literature and heritage through the works of other writers such as Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, Hannah More, Ann Yearsley, Robert Southey, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Margueritte Stein and Philippa Gregory
- To be educational and inclusive also highlighting contributions to society made by people with disabilities. RLS did this with lead characters in Treasure Island such as Blind Pew and Long John Silver himself
- To tackle other themes raised by Treasure Island, such as piracy, slavery and colonialism by trying to establish a museum and memorial to the victims of enslavement in Bristol, focusing in part on radical writers