{"id":723,"date":"2023-09-26T14:49:11","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T12:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rlstevenson-europe.org\/nos-territoires\/bristol\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T19:00:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T18:00:35","slug":"bristol","status":"publish","type":"territoires","link":"https:\/\/www.rlstevenson-europe.org\/en\/our-territories\/bristol\/","title":{"rendered":"Bristol"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Bristol has been a major inland seafaring port for over 1000 years, and is famous \u2013 or infamous – for pirates & privateers, slavers and smugglers, writers & radicals, explorers & innovators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Link with Robert Louis Stevenson<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Barbara Evripidou\/BNM Story Gerry Brooke Willow Long John Silver unveiled at Waterstones, The Galleries, Bristol, Thursday 6th March 2008. Pic of the Lord Mayor of Bristol, Royston Griffey, with children from Hannah More Primary School.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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LJST and PROPS presenting a specially commissioned green pirate flag to the replica 1497 historic ship Matthew to help Bristol celebrate the city becoming European Green Capital of Europe in 2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Promotional posters advertising LJST events ranging from a 2009 Literary Dinner in Symond \u2018s Clifton Hill House with the RLS Club, to a 2019 exhibition in Bristol Central Library to celebrate the 300th anniversary of Daniel Defoe\u2019s classic novel Robinson Crusoe and its links to Bristol<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A display cabinet from the LJSTs Treasure Island exhibition in Bristol\u2019s Central Library celebrating Bristol\u2019s membership of the European Cultural Route \u2018In the Footsteps of Robert Louis Stevenson\u2019<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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LJST and PROPS presenting a specially commissioned green pirate flag to the replica 1497 historic ship Matthew to help Bristol celebrate the city becoming European Green Capital of Europe in 2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Promotional posters advertising Long John Silver Trust events <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The aims of the ‘Long John Silver Trust’ <\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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  • To celebrate and promote Bristol\u2019s irrefutable links to Robert Louis Stevenson\u2019s classic tale ‘Treasure Island’ the Long John Silver Trust has forged strong links with the European Cultural Route \u2018In the Footsteps of Robert Louis Stevenson\u2019, the RLS Club of Edinburgh and the Matthew of Bristol Trust <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • To celebrate and promote Bristol\u2019s irrefutable links to Robert Louis Stevenson\u2019s classic tale ‘Treasure Island’ the Long John Silver Trust has forged strong links with the European Cultural Route \u2018In the Footsteps of Robert Louis Stevenson\u2019, the RLS Club of Edinburgh and the Matthew of Bristol Trust <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • 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<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • 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<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

    The aims of the ‘Long John Silver Trust’ <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    To celebrate and promote Bristol\u2019s irrefutable links to Robert Louis Stevenson\u2019s classic tale ‘Treasure Island’ the Long John Silver Trust has forged strong links with the European Cultural Route \u2018In the Footsteps of Robert Louis Stevenson\u2019, the RLS Club of Edinburgh and the Matthew of Bristol Trust <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    • To celebrate and promote Bristol\u2019s 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 <\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • 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<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • 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<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n