Launch Event
This event was part of Bristol Radical History Week 2006.
Date: Saturday 28th October
Time: 1.00pm - 2.30pm
Price: £2 (the price includes entry into Religious Radicals 1 : James Nayler, see below)
Venue: Broadmead Baptist Church
Speakers: Bristol Radical History Group
Form: Address
Description : General Introduction to the weeks events including…
- Why radical?
- The Year of Brunel (2006), Abolition of the slave trade 'celebrations' (2007) and our response
- The need for events like Bristol Radical History Week
- What's on and latest information
- Why we need donations!
Religious Radicals 1: James Nayler
Date: Saturday 28th October
Time: 2.30pm - 5.00pm
Price: £2 (the price includes entry into the Launch Event, see above)
Venue: Broadmead Baptist Church, Broad St.
Speakers: Brian Perry, Jonathan Harlow, Jonathan Barry
Form: Panel of speakers
Description: Suggested areas of discussion…
- The religious/political turmoil of the 17th century
- Nayler in the New Model Army
- What Nayler believed and preached
- Nayler and Fox : Radical and Reformist currents in the Quakers
- What actually happened when Nayler rode into Bristol in October 1656
- The trial and punishment and its wider political implications
- Why was Nayler forgotten and why he should be remembered
