Saturday 31st October. 12-2:30pm

Garrett Vrs. Churchill

12pm Bristol Temple Meads

On 15 November 1909 in Temple Meads Station Winston Churchill, then Home Secretary, stepped from a railway carriage and was attacked by Theresa Garnett (a member of the Women’s Social and Political Union) who was wielding a riding crop. Or, as Votes For Women put it:

Moved by the spirit of pure chivalry, Miss Garnett took what she thought to be the best available means of avenging the insult done to womanhood by the Government to which Mr. Churchill belongs.

To mark the 100th Anniversary of this event BRHG will be staging a reconstruction at Bristol Temple Meads. Followed by:

Suffragettes

12:30-2:30pm. GWRSA Social Club, Temple Meads, BS1 6QQ. As you walk up to the entrance is on the left just past the Empire & Commonwealth Museum and the Nursery.

Talks by Dawn Dyer (the Suffragettes in Bristol) and Anny Cullum (the composition and outlook of the Suffragettes).

Saturday 31st October 2009

As part of the Trapese Popular Education Collective’s ‘Start Producing the Future’ events BRHG are having a Radical History Walk around Bristol.

The walk starts from The Arnolfini at 3pm and will finish at the same place at about 5pm.

The walk will take in the scenes of some radical activism, both ancient and modern, and compare this with the actions of the ‘mob’. So, come for a little light exercise and learn about Thomas Clarkson, Jame Nayler, St. Wulfsan, Dorothy Hazard and various Bristol Riots.

This video from the Enemy Without: Coal, Climate & Class has been added to the video archive. The blurb for the event went like this:

Speakers: Robin S (Workers Climate Action), John Cunningham (writer for Metamute), Emma Stone (CCS expert), Tyrone O’Sullivan (Ex miner and union, Tower Colliery), Will B

As a follow up to the history of the 1984-85 Miners’ Strike we consider the legacy of this momentous event and the environmental and social contradictions it has thrown up since. A panel of experts will talk about little known past struggles which transcended the current narrative of ‘jobs versus environment’ and debate contemporary struggles over energy and labour. As the eco-systemic crisis increases what is the future of coal? If there needs to be a move to a low carbon economy how do we work towards a ‘transition’ on our terms rather than that of global Capital?

Watch the video by clicking here.

The following audio files have been added to the website.

• Steve Mills and Ian Bone at the Working Class Bookfair
• Dan Bennett and Steve Mills at Bristol Anarchist Bookfair
• Roger, Kev Davis and Steve Mills at Bridport
• Steve Tilzey – No Retreat
• BCFM interview from 2008