‘Warts and all’: SS Great Britain museum reopens with ‘rounded’ history of ship
Bristol Dockyards takes reflective look at imperialism, migration and lives onboard Brunel’s revolutionary vesselBerthed in a dry dock near Bristol city centre, the grand old ship SS Great Britain is billed as the vessel that changed the world.But a new museum opening in one of the old dock buildings close to Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s creation highlights that the ship did not always change the world for the better – and life for those who helped build it and travelled on…
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