Founded in 1929, it is one of the oldest such societies devoted to the publication of material relating to an individual town or city.
Through its history, it has typically published at least one volume each year, on matters ranging from the civic charters of the medieval city,[1] to the diary of Sarah Fox, an 18th-century Quaker.
[5] Since 2019 the Society has been engaged in digitising and epublishing primary and secondary works relating to the history of Bristol.
[9] The Society publishes an occasional electronic series of works that have not met the editorial standards necessary for formal publication but which it nevertheless deems useful.
The Society also publishes occasional peer-reviewed articles on its website called 'Stories from the archives'.