Political Football - Meanings and Mystery at the World Cup

Monday 31st May, 7:30pm at Bristol West Indies Rose Green Centre, 65 Gordon Road, BS5 7DR

With David Goldblatt

The World Cup Finals, now 80 years old, attracts the biggest television audience of any global event. In an era of globalization, it is, if only for a month every four years, the closest we come to imagining and being a global community. It’s the kind of audience no state, no political movement can turn down and since the Uruguayans celebrated the centenary of national independence by hosting the 1930 tournament, politics has been in play at every game. David Goldblatt (author of The Ball Is Round) will explore the political history and cultural meanings of the World Cup and look forward to what we might expect when the 2010 tournament kicks off in South Africa in June.

Accompanied by a film of the 1938 World Cup.

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Pamphlets Available At Tangent Books

All of the BRHG pamphlets are now available to buy on the Tangent Books website (all prices include postage within the UK):

http://www.tangentbooks.co.uk/categories/Politics/Bristol-Radical-History-Group-Pamphlets/

Bristol based Tangent books are the publishers of various volumes including Bash The Rich, Ian Bone's memoirs, and have been very kind to Bristol Radical History Group since we stated running book stalls in 2006. Find out more about Tangent at http://www.tangentbooks.co.uk/pages/About-Tangent-Books.html

The 12 BRHG titles currently on offer are (#1 is currently out of print with a second edition pending):

#2 We Come For Our Own And Shall Have It - Smuggling In Poole And Dorset By Kev Davis

#3 A Brief History Of Corporations - Were Did They Come From? By Dan Bennett

#4 The Bristol Manifesto - The 2008 G8 In Hokkaido: Strategic Assessment By The Emergency Exit Collective

#5 John Locke - The Philosopher Of Primitive Accumulation By George Caffentzis

#6 The Life And Times Of Warren James - Free Miner Of The Forest Of Dean By Ian Wright

#7 'Race War' - Black American GIs In Bristol And Gloucestershire In World War II - By Neil A Wynn

#8 Yesterdday's To-morrow - Bristol's Garden Suburbs - By Stephen E. Hunt

#9 Nicotiana Britannica - The Cotswolds' Illicit Tobacco Cultivation In The 17th Century By Jim McNeill And Will Simpson

#10 Radical Brewing - Work, Energy, Commoning & Beer By Steve Stuffit

#11 A Barbarous And Ungovernable People - Short History Of The Miners Of Kingswood Forest By Steve Mills

#12 Tolpuddle And Swing - The Flea And The Elephant By Roger Ball

#13 Bristol's White Slave Trade - Indentured And Enforced Labour In The 17th Century By Andrea Button

More information about these pamphlets can be found at http://www.brh.org.uk/publications.html and at Tangent's website following the link above.

Happy reading