Founded in 1976, Redcliffe Press and its associated companies have now published over 400 books on a wide range of topics.

Famous as the publishers of Children’s Bristol, the ever popular family guide, they have now published getting on for 200 about Bristol – covering most topics, from architecture to football, and from cinemas to ghosts. Sir John Betjeman praised an early book on Bristol’s churches. A popular title is Stephen Morris’s Off the Wall: A Book of Bristol Grafitti. Redcliffe’s contribution to the Abolition of Slavery year was its republication of Madge Dresser’s celebrated Slavery Obscured.

There is a selection on the BBP website – for fuller details, and more titles, go to www.redcliffepress.co.uk Future titles include a social history of St Mary Redcliffe church, a walking quiz book and a fascinating compilation of inventions called Made in Bristol.

Redcliffe have worked with a number of Bristol organisations, including Arnolfini, Bristol Art Gallery, the RWA, Bristol Savages, Bristol Evening Post and Western Daily Press, HTV, Bristol Zoo and several local businesses.

Non-Bristol titles include A Taste of Somerset and A Taste of Devon and, in autumn 2007, James Russell’s superb Man-Made Eden: Historic Orchards in Somerset and Gloucestershire, with photographs by Stephen Morris. Both Redcliffe and Sansom & Company (see below) have published a number of books on the art and literature of Cornwall.

Sansom & Company publishes books on modern British art, from 1880 to the present day. The Newlyn art colony is strongly represented, but recent titles have included books about Stanley Spencer, Jacob Kramer and Victorian painters and the sea.

Redcliffe’s other associated company, Art Dictionaries, specialises in art reference works, notably David Buckman’s immense, 2 ¼ million word Artists in Britain since 1945.