At this years Bristol Anarchist Bookfair BRHG will be running the Radical History Zone. As well as a selection of book stalls from history groups and local publishers there we will also be hosting a series of talks.

Bristol Anarchist Bookfair is on Saturday 11th September 2010 at Hamilton House on 80 Stokes Croft, Bristol, BS1 3QY.

Click here for the full Radical History Zone line-up.

Radical History Zone at the Bristol Anarchist Bookfair

Bristol Radical History Group will be hosting the ‘Radical History Zone’ at the Bristol Anarchist Bookfair on Saturday 11th September 2010 at Hamilton House, Stokes Croft. Over the last two years the Bristol Anarchist Bookfair has grown to be one of the largest radical gatherings in the city. This year it is expected that around 1000 people will attend the event.

As part of the recent interest in radical, social and working class history, Bristol Radical History Group and Bristol Anarchist Bookfair Collective have created the ‘Radical History Zone’, a dedicated space for independent history publishers, radical and local history groups from the South West and beyond. Meetings and workshops in the RHZ will cover DIY publishing, websites and research along with ‘Meet the Author’ sessions a chance to hear about some of the new radical history works on offer.

The very reasonable rates for bookstalls are on the attached booking form, and the suggestions are as follows:

1. Double table

2. Single table

3. Half a table (share with another publisher/group)

4. Generic table (share it with a few others)

If you would like to be part of the Radical History Zone the deadline for applications for stalls etc. is the 9th August 2010 (at the latest). Please e-mail the completed form to:

brh@brh.org.uk

or mail it to BRHG, c/o Booty, 82 Colston St., Bristol BS1 5BB.

If you would like to offer to be on a panel or present a ‘meet the author’ session (or have any other ideas) then let us know.

Download the booking form here.

Hope to see you in Bristol on the 11th….

Next weekend (16th-18th July) Bristol Radical History Group will be at Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival and will present a series of short punchy talks about booze. How much of a metaphour the word ‘punchy’ turns out to be rathe rdepends on how much we have had to drink. This list of talks is thus:

• Short history of brewing in Britain
• Pre-enclosure home brew demo
• Beer shops, Captain Swing and the Hanging at Kenn
• Cider Riots
• Sugar, Tobacco, Capitalism and Conservative Clubs
• ‘From the Pledge to Straight Edge’
• Smuggling and alehouses, taverns and inns
• Rise of breweries, negative impact on Forest of Dean
• Gin Lane/Beer St. and Hogarth’s satire
• Peoples pubs

Two new videos have been added:

Morris Beckman and Britain’s Secret War, from February this year

Mills And Bone, from the BRHG Election Special

The videos of the following videos from the BRHG Election Special are now available:

• The Chartists And Their Legacy
• Thomas Spence The Forgotten Revolutionary
• Every Cook Can Govern