Pupils at a Bristol secondary school were put 'into lockdown' and remained in locked classrooms for half an hour after an incident involving a student. Leaders at John Cabot Academy in Kingswood ...

One of Bristol's most treasured sons has been ... Another petition, set up on change.org, calls for the John Cabot Academy in Kingswood to be renamed. READ MORE: I Am Open: Massive queues outside ...

John Cabot was a 15th Century Italian explorer, also known as Giovanni Caboto, who moved to England and settled in Bristol, from where he set off on many of his epic voyages. The new prefix was ...

While argument still persists over his birthplace - Venice or Genoa - when he sailed for a British king, his name was anglicized to John ... a flag for England. Cabot sailed from Bristol on ...

You are in: Bristol > History > Historic Figures > John Cabot - c ... On 24 June, 34 days after leaving England, Cabot sighted land and called it New-found-land. He believed it was Asia and ...

Condon, Cabot and Bristol's Age of Discovery: The Bristol Discovery Voyages 1480-1508 (University of Bristol, 23 Nov 2016), ISBN 0995619301, 104 pp., 71 illustrations, £11.99 rrp. John Cabot's voyage ...