St Pauls Carnival 200th anniversary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act 1807. Carnival returned in 2007 improving its diversity and popularity, with a reported 70,000 people attending in 2008. In 2018 the festival had the support of Arts Council England and Bristol City Council. Records of the St Paul's Afrikan-Caribbean Carnival and Arts Association, including administrative and financial records, marketing material, posters and photographs dating from 1970s-2007, are held at Bristol Archives (Ref. 43739) (online catalogue). St Pauls Carnival St Pauls Carnival is an annual African Caribbean carnival held, usually on the first Saturday of July, in St Pauls, Bristol. The
1980 St. Pauls riot building was demolished and has now been replaced by new homes. When cabinet papers were released 30 years later, they showed that Home Secretary William Whitelaw had reported that the Chief Constable "accepted that the police had made errors in the initial stages of the incident but [his] subsequent decision to withdraw all officers from the area for several hours had been the only one open to him at the time". Whitelaw said that a full public inquiry was undesirable as it would only lead to the police being criticised for no good purpose, and that not every controversial matter