Below is a screenshot of the story in today’s Bristol Post reporting on Professor Peter Higgs – one of the team that postulated the existence of the particle named after him back in the 1960s – being granted the freedom of the city of Bristol.
Professor Higgs is a former pupil of Bristol’s Cotham Grammar School.
For a local media report of the event that has a proper headline, I recommend Bristol 24/7’s offering.
Bristol & Avon Family History Society has some interest background information on the history of the Freedom of Bristol and Burgesses, as Freemen (and they were men in medieval times. Ed.) were originally known.