Abbreviations Of Event Titles:
- BRHW 2006 = Bristol Radical History Week 2006
- STHH 2007 = Slavery The Hidden History 2007
- SP 2007 = Summer Party 2007
- BRHW 2007 = Bristol Radical History Week 2007
- DWTF 2008 = Down With The Fences 2008
- OWTH 2008 = Off With Their Heads 2008 (a.k.a Radical History Week 2008)
- Spring 2009 = The Spring 2009 Programme
- Autumn 2009 = The Autumn 2009 Programme
- NY 2009 = BRHG Take Manhattan 2009
- BRHG ES 2010 = Bristol Radical History Group Election Special 2010
- BABF2010 = Bristol Anarchist Book Fair 2010
- 70s = The 1970s - Life Before Thatcher
- Misc = Miscellaneous

Armstrong, Keith
Keith Armstrong is Chair of the Thomas Spence Trust and a budding poet...
Appeared at - BRHG Election Special 2010
- Thomas Spence The Forgotten Revolutionary (Video, BRHG ES 2010)
Ashton, Brian
Brian worked at the Ford Halewood plant from 1970 till late 77. He was a shop steward for three years in the assembly plant.
Appeared at - The 1970s
Ashton, Owen
Owen Ashton is Emeritus Professor of Modern British Social History at Staffordshire University and an expert on Chartism in the West Country. He was a student of Dorothy Thompson.
Appeared at - BRHG Election Special 2010
- The Charists And Their Legacy (Video, BRHG ES 2010)
Backwith, Dave
Researcher of Bristol working class history in the inter war years particularly 1919 and the unemployed workers movement in the 1930's.
Appeared at - Bristol Radical History Week 2006
Ball, Roger
Easton Cowboy and West Ham United fan. He has bored his fellow Cowboys with rants about history for years, the formation of Bristol Radical History Group has made their lives a lot easier. Now an undisputed heavy weight in the history of riots from the 17th Century to the present day.
Appeared at - Bristol Radical History Week 2006, Bristol Radical History Week 2007, Tolpuddle Martyr's Festival 2009, Autumn 2009, BRHG Take Manhattan 2009, BRHG Election Special 2010, The 1970s.
- Branscombe Bay And The Sea Commons (Audio, BRHW 2007)
- Packers Field: A Victory? (Audio, DWTF 2008)
- Stokes Croft And Old Market: Sanitising The Underground (Audio, DWTF 2008)
- Sir! No Sir! (Video, Misc 2009)
- The Terror Of The Gallows (Audio, Autum 2009)
- From Peterloo to Captain Swing: Victims or Insurgents? (Video & Audio, NY 2009)
- How Protest And Riot Won Working Men The Vote (BRHG ES 2010)
Bannerman, Mary
Mary is a founder and spokesperson of the Castle Park Users Group, which is fighting to stop the development of Castle Park in Bristol City centre.
Appeared at - Down With The Fences
- Castle Park: The Town Green (Audio, DWTF 2008)
Bark, Trevor
Troublemaker and academic from the North East, Trevor is on the editorial board of Capital and Class. He is an expert on the social history of crime and author of papers such as Crime becomes Custom, Custom becomes Crime.
Appeared at - Bristol Radical History Week 2007
- Custom Becomes Crime, Crime Becomes Culture (Audio, BRHW 2007)
Barry, Jonathan
Head of School and Senior Lecturers in History at the University of Exeter on provincial society and culture in England from 1500 to 1840, on towns, and on religious and medical history, including the history of witchcraft with particular emphasis on Bristol and the South West.
Appeared at - Bristol Radical History Week 2006 & Bristol Radical History Week 2007
- The Politics Of Pandaemonium (Audio, BRHW 2007
Beckman, Morris
After serving in the Royal Navy in the WWII Morris Beckman became a founder member of the '43 Group' a collection of mainly Jewish ex-servicemen who successfully fought a vicious underground war in the back streets of Britain to stop the rebirth of fascism. Morris wrote the history of this hidden history in The 43 Group.
Appeared at - Miscellanious 2010
- Morris Beckmam And Britain's Secret War (Video, Misc 2010, )
Bennett, Dan
Expert barrister in health and safety law, Dan is the author of A Brief History of Corporations (reprinted by Bristol Radical History Group) a widely sold pamphlet in Britain and the US. Dan has also used his expertise at the bar to handle the town green planning application for the areas of Castle Park threatened by development. Author of the BRH pamphlet A Brief History of Corporations - Where did they Come From?.
Appeared at - Down With The Fences, Spring 2009 Programme, Autumn 2009, BRHG Take Manhattan & BRHG Election Special 2010, Bristol Anarchist Bookfair 2010
- Corporations: A Brief History (Audio, DWTF 2008)
- Hillsborough: What Really Happened? (Audio, Spring 2009)
- Corporations (Audio, Autumn 2009)
- Any Cook Can Govern (Video, BRHG ES 2010)
- Any Cook Can Govern: From Athens to the Electeral Lottery (BABF2010)
Bone, Ian
Erstwhile editor of The Bristolian and once called the most dangerous man in Britain. His memoirs, Bash The Rich were published in October 2006.
Appeared at - Bristol Radical History Week 2006, Spring 2009 Programme
- The 1831 Queen Square Riot (Audio, BRHW 2006)
- Oxbridge (Audio, Spring 2009)
- Subverting Democracy (Video, BRHG ES 2010)
Boyle, Gayle
Gail Boyle is Curator of Prehistoric and Roman Archaeology at Bristol
City Museum. A resident of Pucklechurch, Gail researched and created a
history walking tour of the village which featured on the BBC website.
Appeared at - Bristol Radical History week 2008
- A Walk Through Pucklechurch (Audio, OWTH 2008)
Brian, Chris
Local historian working on West Country slavery (700-1150).
Appeared at - Bristol Radical History Week 2006
Burrows, Glen
- 'The Enemy Within': The Miners' Strike 1984-85 (video, Spring 2009)
Burton, Edson
Academic, writer and storyteller, Dr Burton has taught a range of Black History courses at university and has worked tirelessly to promote awareness of African Diaspora history and culture at a grass roots level.
Appeared at - Bristol Radical History Week 2006
- Slave Revolts (Audio, BRHW 2006)
Caffentzis, George
An offspring of Greek immigrants from Lakonia, southern Greece, George is associate professor in the Department of Philosophy, University of Southern Maine, USA. George has been investigating the British philosophers of capitalism of the 17th and 18th C. His publications include Exciting the Industry of Mankind George Berkeley's Philosophy of Money and Clipped Coins, Abused Words and Civil Government: John Locke's Philosophy of Money. He is currently working on David Hume. Author of the BRH pamphlet John Locke - The Philosopher of Primitive Accumulation
Appeared - Down With The Fences
- Clipped Coins: John Locke's Philosophy of Money (Audio, DWTF 2008)
- The New Enclosures (Audio, DWTF 2008)
- The Commons Panel Debate (Video & Audio, DWTF 2008)
Carlsson, Chris
Acclaimed author, activist and founder of the Critical Mass bicycling movement in San Francisco.
Appeared at - Spring 2009 Programme
- Nowtopia (Video, Spring 2009)
Carr, Matt
Author of The Infernal Machine – A History of Terrorism, the first edition (2007) of which was pulped after a Saudi lawsuit succeeded in suppressing it. Matt has worked as a freelance journalist for a number of publications writing about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Sicilian Mafia, state terror in Central America and the Spanish government’s use of death squads against ETA. He is also the author of the acclaimed memoir My Father’s House.
Appeared at - Bristol Radical History Week 2008
- Avengers & Madmen - Propagandists Of The Deed & The Dawn Of Modern Terrorism (Audio, OWTH 2008)
Clark, Peter
A writer and Middle East cultural consultant Peter edited The Lefties Guide to Britain (2005) and is an expert on the radical history of East Anglia.
Appeared at - Down With The Fences & Spring 2009 Programme
- The Kett Rebelion (Audio, DWTF 2008)
Cohen, Sheila
Sheila Cohen has been involved in the trade union movement as an academic and an activist. In 1990-95, she produced and edited a British rank and file union newsletter, Trade Union News, and during her time in the US was involved with the Labor Notes project. In 2006 she published the book Ramparts of Resistance: Why workers lost their power and how to get it back.
Appeared at - The 1970s
Coleman, Sheila
Has been involved in researching the aftermath of the
Hillsborough disaster since 1989. As a member of the Hillsborough
Project she monitored the legal proceedings arising from the disaster
and co-authored the first critical analysis of the events. Sheila is an
active member of the Hillsborough Justice Campaign.
Appeared at - Spring 2009 Programme
- Hillsborough: What Really Happened? (Audio, Spring 2009)
Cullum, Anny
Daughter of Dave and a ledgend in her own life time.
Appeared at - Autumn 2009, BRHG Take Manhattan & BRHG Election Special 2010
- Votes for Ladies: The Suffragette Movement 1903-1914 (Audio, Autumn 2009)
- Votes for Ladies: The Suffragette Movement 1903-1914 (Audio & Video, NY 2009)
Cullum, Dave
Captain of record breaking Easton Cowboys 2nd XI cricket team, connoisseur of fine ciders and author of Society and Economy in West Cornwall c1588-1750 (Exeter University, PhD thesis, 1994).
Appeared at - Bristol Radical History Week 2006, Bristol Radical History Week 2007, Off With Their Heads & BRHG Election Special 2010
- Sugar and Tobacco : Drugs of Capitalism (Audio, BRHW 2006)
- The Wreckers: West Country Folk Demons (Audio, BRHW 2007)
- Why History Matters... And Why Radical History Matters More (Audio, OWTH 2008)
- How Protest And Riot Won Working Men The Vote (BRHG ES 2010)
- Democracy And Capitalism (Video, BRHG ES 2010)
Davis, Kevin
Easton Cowboy and refugee from Dorset, Kevin claims to have left his life of wrecking and smuggling behind in his hometown of Poole. But who knows? Author of the BRH pamphlet We Come For Our Own And We Shall Have It.
Appeared at - Bristol Radical History Week 2007, Down With The Fences & Autumn 2009
- Smugglers: Radicals Or Romantic (BRHW2007)
- Packers Field: A Victory? (Audio, DWTF 2008)
- Smuggling In Poole And Dorset (Audio, Autum 2009)
De Angelis, Massimo
Autonomist Marxist academic with a focus on value theory and social movements, Massimo De Angelis works at the University of East London. He is editor of The Commoner web journal (http://www.thecommoner.org) and author of The Beginning of History: Value Struggle and Global Capital published in 2007 by Pluto press. Autonomist Marxist academic with a focus on value theory and social movements, Massimo De Angelis works at the University of East London. He is editor of The Commoner web journal (http://www.thecommoner.org) and author of The Beginning of History: Value Struggle and Global Capital published in 2007 by Pluto press.
Appeared at - Down With The Fences
- The Commons Panel Debate (Video & Audio, DWTF 2008)
Desmond, John
Appeared at - Bristol Anarchist Bookfair 2010
- Directional Discourse and Counter-history (BABF 2010)
Dickinson, Phil
Local historian and expert on Dorothy Hazzard.
Appeared at - Bristol Radical History Week 2006
Douglass, Dave
Member of IWW, NUM, South Yorkshire Class War and formerly of the Revolutionary Workers' Party. He worked as a coal miner in the coal fields of Durham and South Yorkshire and was NUM Branch Delegate for Hatfield Colliery from 1979. In 1994/5 he became Branch Secretary at Hatfield Main but after the pit was privatised the NUM no longer had any recognition there. From 1994 to 2006 he helped run the Miners Community Advice Centre in Stainforth.
Appeared at - Spring 2009 and The 1970s
- 'The Enemy Within': The Miners' Strike 1984-85 (video, Spring 2009)
Dresser, Madge
Lecturer in History at the University of the West of England and 18th century expert. Currently researching a lottery funded project on one thousand and one years of ethnic minorities in Bristol and the legacies of slavery in London and Bristol. Author of Slavery Obscured: The Social History of the Slave Trade in an English Provincial Port c. 1698-c.1833 and The Diary of Sarah Fox.
Appeared at - Bristol Radical History Week 2006
Dyer, Dawn
A librarian at Bristol Central Reference Library Dawn has provided invaluable support to BRHG members' research efforts and hosted several 'Openning The Archive' sessions for our events. She is also an expert on the Suffragettes in Bristol.
Appeared at - Autumn 2009
- They Fought for it, They Starved for it: THE VOTE (Audio & Video, Autumn 2009)
Dyer, Tony
Bristol born Tony Dyer is an active green campaigner and frequent blogger (as Aurea Mediocritas) on local political and environmental matters. Author of Bristol Radical Pamphleteer #16 - Anglo-Saxon Democracy
Appeared at - BRHG Election Special 2010
- Anglo-Saxon Democracy (Video, BRHG ES 2010)
Evans, Johnny
Eye witness to the 1980 St. Pauls riot.
Appeared at - Bristol Radical History Week 2006
Farrow, Keiron
Appeared at - The 1970s
Federici, Silvia
Long time feminist activist and teacher, Silvia is co-founder of the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa and the RPA (Radical Philosophy Association) Anti-Death Penalty Project. She teaches International Studies and Political Philosophy at Hofstra University. Federici's published work includes: Enduring Western Civilization: The Construction of the Concept of Western Civilization and its 'Others' (editor) and A Thousand Flowers: Social Struggles Against Structural Adjustment in African Universities and most recently the excellent Caliban and the Witch: Women the Body and Primitive Accumulation.
Appeared at - Bristol Radical History Week 2007
- The Body, Capitalist Accumulation And The Accumulation Of Labour Power (Audio, BRHW 2007)
Frykman, Niklas
Ph.D. student in the History Department at the University of Pittsburgh (USA). Currently researching a dissertation entitled The Wooden World Turned Upside Down: Naval Mutinies in the Age of Atlantic Revolution.
Appeared at - Bristol Radical History Week 2006 & Bristol Radical History Week 2007
- From Treason Take Away The T: The Mutiny On The Hermione 1797 (Audio, BRHW 2006)
- An Empire Of Thieves (Video & Audio, BRHW 2007)
Goldblatt, David
David Goldblatt began life as a medical student and ended up with a degree in Sociology. After finishing a PhD in Social Theory and the Environment, he went on to lecture at The Open University. Goldblatt is a Tottenham fan and the acclaimed author of The Ball is Round a global history of football.
Appeared at - Down With The Fences, Spring 2009, BRHG Election Special 2010, Miscellaneous 2010
- The Ball Is Round (Audio, DWTF 2008)
- Hillsborough: What Really Happened? (Audio, Spring 2009)
- Political Football – Meanings and Mystery at the World Cup (Misc 2010)
- Us Now (BRHG ES 2010)
Grove, Rich
An Easton Cowboy’s cricketer he is famous amongst the Cowgirls for consistently winning ‘catch of the season’.
Appeared at - Down With The Fences & BRHG Take Manhattan
Graeber, David
A Reader in Social Anthropology at Goldsmith College, London, since he was run out of Yale University. Graeber has a history of social and political activism, including his role in protests against the World Economic Forum in New York City (2002) and membership in the labor union Industrial Workers of the World.
- The Commons Panel Debate (Video & Audio, DWTF 2008)
Guarita, Carlos
Carlos worked at the Ford Dagenham Engine Plant from 1976 till early 1980. He was a founder member of the Ford Dagenham Workers' Group which later became part of the Ford (UK) Workers' Combine and which was probably the first autonomous rank and file organization to exist within a transnational company in the U.K.
Appeared at - The 1970s
Harlow, Jonathan
PhD student and tutor at the University of West of England. Currently researching a thesis on the lifeand times of Thomas Speed, an early Bristol Quaker.
Appeared at - Bristol Radical History Week 2006
Hart, Richard
Key figure in the politics of the Caribbean of the 20th century. Trade Union and political activist in Jamaica, Guyana and Attorney General of Grenada; a post he held until the American invasion in 1983. As an academic, Richard Hart taught at Northwestern University, USA, and has also been a visiting lecturer at a number of Canadian and American universities, the University of Guyana, University of Havana, University of the West Indies in Jamaica and Trinidad and the University of Paris. He has continued to be a prolific author and speaker on Caribbean history, politics and economics.
Appeared at - Bristol Radical History Week 2006, Slavery - The Hidden history & The Seven Stars Palque Unveiling (2009), Cry Freedom, Cry Seven Stars (2010).
- The Slaves Who Abolished Slavery (Audio, STHH 2007)
- Caribbean Struggles After Abolition (Audio, STHH 2007)
Haywood, Ian
Ian Haywood is professor of English and Director of the Centre for Research in Romanticism at Roehampton University (London). His major research interests are currently the literature and visual culture in the 18th and 19th centuries; previous interests have included literary forgery, working-class writing, Chartism, and popular women's texts of the post-war period. He has recently authored Bloody Romanticism: Spectacular Violence and the Politics of Representation 1776-1832 (Palgrave, 2006) and The Revolution in Popular Literature: Print, Politics and the People 1790-1860 (Cambridge University Press, 2004).
Appeared at - Off With Thier Heads
- Spectres Of Violence: Thomas Paine, George Cruikshank And The Age Of Reason (Audio, OWTH 2008)
Higginson, Steve
Steve hails from Liverpool and was a Union organiser in the Communication Workers Union. Now a post-graduate, Steve lectures at John Moores University. His recent projects include an examination of time, memory and movement in port cities (principally Liverpool) as co-author of Edgy Cities (2006). He is currently working on his book Is there a Catholic Anti-Work Ethic? due out in November 2008.
Appeared at - Down With The Fences & The 1970s
- Dangerous Lasses & The Lumpen Classes (Audio, DWTF 2008)
- Partition And Prejudice: ‘The English Arrangements Of Place And Space’ (Audio, DWTF 2008)
Hochschild, Adam
A multi-award winning author his first book, Half the Way Home: a Memoir of Father and Son, was published in 1986. It was followed by The Mirror at Midnight: a South African Journey, The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin, Finding the Trapdoor: Essays, Portraits, Travels, King Leopold's Ghost: a Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa and Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves. His books have won numerous awards.
Appeared at - Slavery - The Hidden History
- The Invisible Abolitionists (Audio, STHH 2007)
Hunt, Steve
Steve is a librarian, a scolar and a cyclist. He is also the first author to have produced two Radical Pamphleteer pamphlets - Yesterday's To-morrow - Bristol's Garden Suburbs and Anarchism in Bristol and the West Country to 1950.
Appeared at - Bristol Anarchist Bookfair 2010
James, Les
Les James is a community history activist who has written and publicised events commemorating the Newport Chartist Rising.
Appeared at - BRHG Election Special 2010
- The Chartists And Thier Legacy (Video, BRHG ES 2010)
Jay, Mike
Author of the recent history of the Despard conspiracy in The Unfortunate Colonel Despard and The Air Loom Gang: The Strange and True Story of James Tilly Matthews and His Visionary Madness. Currently researching radical Bristol in the 1790's.
Appeared at - Bristol Radical History Week 2006, Bristol Anarchist Bookfair 2010
- The Watchman: Coleridge, Beddoes and the radical 1790s in Bristol (Audio, BRHW 2006)
- The Atmosphere of Heaven: Dr. Beddoes and revolutionary Bristol (BABF2010)
Jones, Ray
From working-class Wales through drugs, gambling and prison to punk, Paris fashion houses and San Francisco’s underground, Ray Jones editor of the notorious ‘Roughler’ magazine recounts his surreal life. So if chatting up Marianne Faithfull and rat arsing it with Keith Moon and Joe Strummer takes your fancy then Ray’s yer man.
Appeared at - Bristol Anarchist Bookfair 2010
- Drowning on Dry Land: Swansea’s Jack Kerouac (BABF2010)
Jones, Nicholas
Nicholas Jones has spent forty years chronicling the news media’s relationship with politicians, trade union leaders and other prominent people and spent thirty years as a BBC industrial and political correspondent (1972-2002). He wrote Strikes and the Media (1986) and contributed to SHAFTED: The Media, the Miners' Strike and the Aftermath (2009).
Appeared at - Spring 2009 Programme, Autum 2009
- 'The Enemy Within': The Miners' Strike 1984-85 (Audio, video, Spring 2009)
Kelly, Robin
One of the foremost historians of radical Black movements and cultures in the United States.
Appeared at - Miscellaneous 2010
- Post-Racial or Beloved Community? Notes on the Future of American Radicalism in the Obama Age (Misc. 2010)
Kingsnorth, Paul
Paul has worked on the comment desk of the Independent, as commissioning editor for opendemocracy.net and as deputy editor of The Ecologist, the world's longest-running environmental magazine. He studied history at Oxford University between 1991 and 1994, was named one of Britain's 'top ten troublemakers' by the New Statesman magazine in 2001 and his first book, One No, Many Yeses (Simon and Schuster, 2003), an investigative journey through the 'anti-globalisation' movement, was published in six languages in thirteen countries. His second book, The Real England, was published by Portobello Books in April 2008.
Appeared at - Down With The Fences
- The Real England (Audio, DWTF 2008)
Lamb, Robert
Robert is a lecturer in Political Philosophy at the University of Exeter with specific research interests in 18th and 19th century political writing, particularly that of British liberals, socialists and utilitarians. He is currently working on a monograph with the working title The Egalitarian Politics of Thomas Paine, which explores the nature of Paine's understanding of moral equality and the role that concept plays in his substantive political arguments about individual rights.
Appeared at - Bristol Radical History Week 2007
Lavine, Mike
Appeared at - The 1970s
Linebaugh, Peter
Professor of History at the University of Toledo (USA) and the author of the seminal works The London Hanged:Crime and Civil Society in 18th Century England and The Many Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic.
Appeared at - Bristol Radical History Week 2006 & Down With The Fences
- Magna Carta And The Commons (Audio, BRHW 2006)
- A Spot In Time (Audio, BRHW 2006)
- The Magna Carta Manifesto: Liberties And Commons For All (Audio, DWTF 2008)
- The Incomplete, True, Authentic And Wonderful History Of May Day (Audio, DWTF 2008)
- The Commons Panel Debate (Video & Audio, DWTF 2008)
Manson, Mike
Writer and researcher. Author of Riot! - The Bristol Bridge Massacre of 1793. He also wrote the definitive history of South Bristol: Bristol Beyond the Bridge. He has just completed his first novel Where's My Money? set in a dole office in Bristol in the 1970s.
Appeared at - Bristol Radical History Week 2006
- 'Riot!' The Bristol Bridge Massacre of 1793 (Audio, BRHW 2006)
Marco
Marco is a casual worker who is involved in the London Commune Group. He will introduce the concept of a workers inquiry and the recent project called 'prol-position' (http://www.prol-position.net/).
Appeared at - The 1970s
McNiell, Jim
Jim McNeill, local historian, storyteller and member of Living Easton. Jim has a blog exploring the history of the Loire Valley where he now lives.
Appeared at - Bristol Radical History Week 2006, Slavery - The Hidden History & Bristol Radical History Week 2007
- Scandal! The Slave Profiteers (Audio, STHH 2007)
- Nicotina Tabacum (Audio, BRHW 2007)
Mills, Steve
Local historian and researcher of the Kingswood Colliers and the Cock Rd. Gang. He is a West Ham United fan and will therefore receive preferential treatment. Author of the BRHG pamphlet A Barbarous And Ungovernable People - A Short History Of The Miners Of The Kingswood Forest
Appeared at - Bristol Radical History Week 2006, Down With The Fences, Spring 2009 Programme, miscellanious 2009, Autum 2009, NY 2009
- The Kingswood Colliers & the Cock Rd. Gang (Audio, BRHW 2006)
- The Overnight House And The Kingswood Commons (Audio, DWTF 2008)
- The Land Is Your Land (Audio, Spring 2009)
- Winstanley (Video, Misc 2009)
- Social Crime (Audio, Autumn 2009)
- Poaching And Mass Social Crime (Audio, Autumn 2009)
- A Barbarous and Ungovernable People: The Miners of Kingswood Forest (Audio & Video NY 2009)
- Subverting Democracy (Video, BRHG ES 2010)
O’Hara, Larry
Investigative researcher.
Appeared at - The 1970s.
Olusoga, David
A leading BBC film producer David Olusoga has established his reputation with critical and insightful documentaries. He is a key figure in the BBC's new generation of film producers and is committed to using film as a way of opening up our thinking about slavery and the slave trade.
Appeared at - Bristol Radical History Week 2007
- Namibia: Genocide And The Second Reich (Audio, BRHW 2007)
Perry, Brian
Local historian and expert on Quaker history especially James Naylor.
Appeared at - Bristol Radical History Week 2006
Poole, Steve
Lecturer in History at the University of West of England. Teaches the history of popular movements in Britain from the mid 18th to the mid 19th centuries and 'feels an irrational attachment to the Romantic enthusiasm of the English Jacobins'. His book The Politics of Regicide in England,1760-1850 has just been published.
Appeared at - Bristol Radical History Week 2006, The Brandon Hill Summer Party, Down With The Fences & BRHG Election Special 2010.
- Popular Politics in Bristol in the 1790's (Audio, BRHW 2006)
- Brandon Hill (Audio, SP 2007)
- The Crown And The Commons: Holding Monarchy To Account In 18th Century England (Audio, DWTF 2008)
- Radicalism, Monarchy And The Lost Liberties Of Anglo-Saxon Egland 1790-1820 (Audio, OWTH 2008)
- Thomas Spence The Forgotten Revolutionary (Video, BRHG ES 2010)
Rediker, Marcus
Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh (USA) and the author of The Many Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea : Merchant Seamen, Pirates and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700-1750, Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age and this year The Slave Ship: A Human History.
Appeared at - Bristol Radical History Week 2007
- The Real Pirates of The Caribbean (Video & Audio, BRHW 2007)
Richardson, Mike
A print worker in Bristol in the 1970s.
Appeared at - The 1970s
Robertson, Geoffery
Robertson became a barrister in 1973 and a QC in 1988. His became well known acting for the defence in the celebrated English criminal trials of Oz, Gay News, the 'ABC Trial', The Romans in Britain (the prosecution brought by Mary Whitehouse), the Brighton bombing and Matrix Churchill. Robertson was also threatened by terrorists for representing Salman Rushdie. He has appeared in civil liberties cases before the European Court of Human Rights and in other courts across the world. He sits as an appeal judge at the UN Special Court for Sierra Leone. His latest book, The Tyrannicide Brief, details the story of John Cooke, who prosecuted King Charles I of England in the treason trial that led to his execution.
Appeared at - Bristol Radical History Week 2008
- The Tyrannicide Brief (Audio, OWTH 2008)
Rollison, David
David Rollison taught history and politics at the University of New South Wales and the University of Western Sydney from 1975 to 2007. He is currently an honorary research associate in history at Sydney University, and visiting research fellow at the University of East Anglia. Author of The Local Origins of Modern Society (London and New York 1992) and The English Explosion: the Age of the Commonweal, 1381-1649 (Cambridge).
Appeared at - Bristol Radical History Week 2008
- Commonalty and Commonweal 1381-1649 (OWTH 2008)
Ruckus, Craig
- Brandon Hill (SP 2007)
Ruff, Phil
Phil Ruff is a historian of the anarchist movement and has been working since 1988 on uncovering the identity of ‘Peter the Painter’. This mysterious figure was central to the legends associated with the ‘Siege of Sidney St.’ in 1910 when a small group of Latvian Anarchists held off hundreds of fully armed police and soldiers for hours in the East End of London.
Appeared at - Off With Their Heads
- ‘Peter The Painter’ - The Full Story At Last! (Audio, OWTF 2008)
Steeds, Mark
Member of the Long John Silver Trust, local historian and purveyor of fine ales in Hawkesbury, Upton. Author of the BRH pamphlet Cry Freedom, Cry Seven Stars
Appeared at - Bristol Radical History Week 2006, Slavery - The Hidden history & Bristol Radical History Week 2007
- Anti-Slavery And The Seven Stars Public House (Audio, BRHW 2006)
Symister, Ruth
Head of Year at Whitefield School, Bristol. Passionate advocate of the Atlantic seafaring novel as the clue to a hidden multi-racial past.
Appeared at - Bristol Radical History Week 2006
- Moby Dick: Below Decks In The Pequod (Audio, BRHW 2006)
Thomas, Chris
Director of The Great Grunwick Strike a History (2007).
Appeared at - The 1970s
Thomas, Colin
Award winning producer, director and scriptwriter of TV documentaries covering the 1st World War, Spanish Civil War and the 1926 General Strike for the BBC. Recently he collected the 2006 Jury Award at the Celtic Film Festival for Border Crossing - The Journey of Raymond Williams.
Appeared at - Bristol Radical History Week 2008 & Autum 2009
- The Levellers Are Dead – Long Live The Levellers! (Audio, OWTH 2008)
Thompson, Dorothy
Dorothy Thompson has devoted much of her academic life to the study of the Chartists and is a world-wide authority on the movement. She was married to E. P. Thomson and taught at Birmingham University.
Appeared at - BRHG Election Special 2010
- The Chartist And There Legacy (Video, BRHG ES 2010)
Tickell, Paul
LWT researcher and later producer/director on South of Watford, the London Programme, Network 7 and the South Bank Show, Paul Tickell later moved into his current freelance career, directing dramas and feature films as well as continuing to make documentaries. He is the director of the critically acclaimed works Christie Malry's Own Double Entry (2002), Crush Proof (1999) and Zinky Boys Go Underground (1995) which won the BAFTA best short film award.
Appeared at - Bristol Radical History Week 2007
Tilzey, Steve
One of the authors of No Retreat - a powerful account of their fight-back against far-right Nazis and racists on the streets of the UK from the 70s though to the 90s.
Appeared at - Autumn 2009
- No Retreat (Audio, Autumn 2009)
Urtubia, Lucio
Anarchist, bank robber, forger, fugitive and above all bricklayer. This man has done too much to summarise here, check out the wikipedia article for the full story.
Appeared at - Off With Their Heads
- An Audience With Lucio Urtubia (Audio, OWTH 2008)
Wright, Ian
Ian hails from the Forest of Dean, has a passionate interest in the radical history of the forest and is author of the forthcoming Bristol Radical History pamphlet on the Warren James and the enclosure riots. Author of the BRH pamphlet The Life And Times Of Warren James - Free Miner Of The Forrest Of Dean
Appeared at - Down With The Fences

Anarchism
An Audience With Lucio Urtubia
Lucio Urtubia (OWTH 2008)
Avengers & Madmen - Propagandists Of The Deed & The Dawn Of Modern Terrorism
Matt Carr (OWTH 2008)
‘Peter The Painter’ - The Full Story At Last!
Phil Ruff (OWTH 2008)
Nowtopias
Chris Carlson (video, Spring 2009)
Any Cook Can Govern
Dan Bennett (BRHG ES 2010)
Anarchism in Bristol and the West Country to 1950
Steve Hunt (BABF2010)
Italy In The 1970s Bodies In The Street, A Tale Of A Country Like Ours
Kieren Fallen, Marco
Anti-Fascism
No Retreat
Steve Tilzey (Autumn 2009)
Morris Beckman And Britain's Secret War
Morris Beckman (Misc. 2010)
The Commons, Customary Rights & Enclosures
Magna Carta And The Commons
Peter Linebaugh (BRHW 2006)
Branscombe Bay And The Sea Commons
Roger Ball (BRHW 2007)
Custom Becomes Crime, Crime Becomes Culture
Trevor Bark (BRHW 2007)
The Magna Carta Manifeto: Liberties And Commons For All
Peter Linebaugh (DWTF 2008)
The Incomplete, True, Authentic And Wonderful History Of May Day
Peter Linebaugh (DWTF 2008)
Partition And Prejudice: ‘The English Arrangements Of Place And Space’
Steve Higginson (DWTF 2008)
The Commons Panel Debate
Massimo De Angelis, Peter Linebaugh & George Caffentzis (DWTF 2008)
The New Enclosures
George Caffentzis (DWTF 2008)
The Ball Is Round
David Goldblatt (DWTF 2008)
The Kett Rebellion
Peter Clark (DWTF 2008)
The Battle For Bristol 2008
Roger Ball, Kevin Davis & Mary Bannerman (DWTF 2008)
The Real England
Paul Kingsnorth (DWTF 2008)
The Crown And The Commons: Holding Monarchy To Account In 18th Century England
Steve Poole (DWTF 2008)
The Overnight House And The Kingswood Commons
Steve Mills (DWTF 2008)
The Land Is Your Land
Steve Mills (Spring 2009)
A Barbarous and Ungovernable People: The Miners of Kingswood Forest
Steve Mills (NY 2009)
Democracy & Suffrage
Votes for Ladies: The Suffragette Movement 1903-1914
Anny Cullum (Autumn 2009)
They Fought for it, They Starved for it: THE VOTE
Dawn Dyer (Autumn 2009)
Votes for Ladies: The Suffragette Movement 1903-1914
Anny Cullum (NY 2009)
The Chartist And Their Legacy
Dorothy Thomspon, Owen Ashton, Les James (BRHG ES 2010)
Subverting Democracy
Ian Bone, Steve Mills (BRHG ES 2010)
Thomas Spence The Forgotten Revolutionary
Keith Armstrong, Steve Poole (BRHG ES 2010)
How Protest And Riot Won Working Men The Vote
Roger Ball, David Cullum (BRHG ES 2010)
Any Cook Can Govern
Dan Bennett (BRHG ES 2010)
Anglo-Saxon Democracy
Tony Dyer (BRHG ES 2010)
Democracy And Capitalism
David Cullum (BRHG ES 2010)
Us Now
Tom Arclight, Chris Chalkley, David Goldblatt, Roy Norris, (BRHG ES 2010)
‘Every Cook Can Govern’: From Athens to the Electoral Lottery
Dan Bennett (BRHG)
History
Why History Matters... And Why Radical History Matters More
David Cullum (OWTH 2008)
From Peterloo to Captain Swing: Victims or Insurgents?
Roger Ball (NY 2009)
Doing Radical History
Lord Twankum and Bristol Radical History Group (BABF2010)
Directional Discourse and Counter-history
John Desmond (BABF2010)
Do It Yourself Publishing
Richard Jones - Tangent Books, Randall Brantley - Bristol Radical Pamphleteer, Alex - Pasttense Press, Paul Mangan - Breviary Stuff Publications (BABF2010)
Modern History
Hillsborough: What Really Happened?
Sheila Coleman, Dan Bennett & David Goldblatt (Spring 2009)
Nowtopia
Chris Carlson (video, Spring 2009)
'The Enemy Within': The Miners' Strike 1984-85
Nicholas Jones, Glen Burrows & Dave Douglas (Spring 2009)
Sir! No Sir!
Roger Ball (Misc. 2009)
No Retreat
Steve Tilzey (Autumn 2009)
Morris Beckman And Britain's Secret War
Morris Beckman (Misc. 2010)
Political Football - Meanings and Mystery at the World Cup
David Goldblatt (Misc. 2010)
Subverting Democracy
Ian Bone (BRHG ES 2010)
Us Now
Tom Arclight, Chris Chalkley, David Goldblatt, Roy Norris (BRHG ES 2010)
Post-Racial or Beloved Community? Notes on the Future of American Radicalism in the Obama Age
Robin Kelley (BRHG ES 2010)
Drowning on Dry Land: Swansea’s Jack Kerouac
Ray Jones (BABF2010)
From The Ford Workers' Group to Made In Dagenham
Carlos Guarita, Brian Ashton (70s)
Grunwick: The End Of An Era?
Chris Thomas (70s)
Spies, Lies And The Coup State Repression In The 70s
Larry O'Hara (70s)
The Anti-Vietnam War Movement
Mike Lavine, Roger Ball (70s)
Italy In The 1970s Bodies In The Street, A Tale Of A Country Like Ours
Kieren Fallen, Marco (70s)
"Can't Do Nothin' If You Ain't Bad" The League Of Revolutionary Black Workers
Kieren Farrow, Marco (70s)
Radical Bristol
The Kingswood Colliers & the Cock Rd. Gang
Steve Mills (BRHW 2006)
'Riot!' The Bristol Bridge Massacre of 1793
Mike Manson (BRHW 2006)
Popular Politics in Bristol in the 1790's
Steve Poole (BRHW 2006)
The Watchman: Coleridge, Beddoes and the Radical 1790s in Bristol
Mike Jay (BRHW 2006)
The 1831 Queen Square Riot
Ian Bone (BRHW 2006)
Brandon Hill
Steve Poole & Craig Ruckus (SP 2007)
The Politics Of Pandaemonium
Jonathan Barry (BRHW 2007)
The Overnight House And The Kingswood Commons
Steve Mills (DWTF 2008)
A Walk Through Pucklechurch
Gayle Boyle (OWTH 2008)
Social Crime
Steve Milss (Autumn 2009)
A Barbarous and Ungovernable People: The Miners of Kingswood Forest
Steve Mills (Autumn 2009)
A Radical History Walk Around Bristol
BRHG, a walk with talks around bristol (Autum 2009)
Anarchism in Bristol and the West Country to 1950
Steve Hunt (BABF2010)
Republicanism
The Tyrannicide Brief
Geoffrey Robertson (OWTH 2008)
The Levellers Are Dead – Long Live The Levellers!
Colin Thomas (OWTH 2008)
Spectres Of Violence: Thomas Paine, George Cruikshank And The Age Of Reason
Iam Haywood (OWTH 2008)
Radicalism, Monarchy And The Lost Liberties Of Anglo-Saxon Egland 1790-1820
Steve Poole (OWTF 2008)
Commonalty and Commonweal 1381-1649
David Rollison (OWTF 2008)
Winstanley
Steve Mills (Misc. 2009)
Thomas Spence The Forgotten Revolutionary
Keith Armstrong, Steve Poole (BRHG ES 2010)
Revolutionary Atlantic
A Spot In Time
Peter Linebaugh (BRHW 2006)
From Treason Take Away The T: The Mutiny On The Hermione 1797
Niklas Frykman (BRHW 2006)
Moby Dick: Below Decks In The Pequod
Ruth Symister (BRHW 2006)
The Real Pirates of The Caribbean
Marcus Rediker (BRHW 2007)
An Empire Of Thieves
Niklas Frykman (BRHW 2007)
The Rise Of Capitalism
The Body, Capitalist Accumulation And The Accumulation Of Labour Power
Silvia Federici (BRHW 2007)
Clipped Coins: John Locke's Philosophy of Money
George Caffentzis (DWTF 2008)
Dangerous Lasses & The Lumpen Classes
Steve Higginson (DWTF 2008)
Corporations: A Brief History
Dan Bennett (DWTF 2008)
Corporations
Dan Bennett (Autumn 2009)
Slavery & Resistance
Anti-Slavery And The Seven Stars Public House
Mark Steeds (BRHW 2006)
Slave Revolts
Edson Burton (BRHW 2006)
Sugar and Tobacco : Drugs of Capitalism
Dave Cullum (BRHW 2006)
The Invisible Abolitionists and The Slaves Who Abolished Slavery
Richard Hart and Adam Hochschild (STHH March 2007)
Black Radical Abolitionists
South London Radical History Group (STHH March 2007)
Scandal! The Slave Profiteers
Jim McNeill (STHH March 2007)
Caribbean Struggles After Abolition
Richard Hart (STHH March 2007)
Namibia: Genocide And The Second Reich
David Olusoga (BRHW 2007)
Social Crime
Branscombe Bay And The Sea Commons
Roger Ball (BRHW 2007)
Nicotina Tabacum
Jim McNiell (BRHW 2007)
Custom Becomes Crime, Crime Becomes Culture
Trevor Bark (BRWH 2007)
The Wreckers: West Country Folk Demons
Dave Cullum (BRHW 2007)
Smuggling In Poole And Dorset
Kevin Davis (Autumn 2009)
Social Crime
Steve Milss (Autumn 2009)
Poaching And Mass Social Crime
Steve Mills (Autumn 2009)
Sport
Hillsborough: What Really Happened?
Sheila Coleman, Dan Bennett & David Goldblatt (Spring 2009)
Political Football - Meanings and Mystery at the World Cup
David Goldblatt (Misc. 2010)
Workers Organisations
From The Ford Workers' Group to Made In Dagenham
Carlos Guarita, Brian Ashton (70s)
Grunwick: The End Of An Era?
Chris Thomas (70s)
How We Won: Strikes In The 70s
Dave Douglas, Mike Richardson, Steve Higginson (70s)
From Recruitment To Dialogue How Does The Radical Left Relate To Workers?
Sheila Cohen, Marco (70s)
Italy In The 1970s Bodies In The Street, A Tale Of A Country Like Ours
Kieren Farrow, Marco (70s)
"Can't Do Nothin' If You Ain't Bad" The League Of Revolutionary Black Workers
Kieren Farrow, Marco (70s)



