At last weekend’s Bristol Anarchist Bookfair we launched the latest Bristol Radical Pamphleteer publication entitled The Peculiar History Of The Sect Known As The Quakers by Jim McNeill.

Who were the Quakers? Why were they persecuted? Why did they stop being radical? How did some of Bristol’s Quakers become so rich?

From James Naylor’s blasphemous ride down Corn Street to William Penn being given Pennsylvania and Abraham Darby laying the foundations of the Industrial Revolution. This is the first of two pamphlets by Jim McNeill exploring the history of the Quakers in Bristol.

See details of all 17 pamphlets on the Publications Page.

This Autumn sees three new pamphlets added to the Bristol Radical Pamphleteer series as well as two 2nd editions.

They are:

#1 Cry Freedom, Cry Seven Stars: Thomas Clarkson In Bristol, 1787 – 2nd Edition by Mark Steeds. This is a major re-working of the pamphlet that was published to help raise money for the Seven Stars Plaque. Now re-published it celebrates the unveiling of the plaque and launches a new challenge – to make the Seven Stars the first ever pub with UNESCO World Heritage status.

#6 The Life And Times Of Warren James – Free Miner Of The Forest Of Dean – 2nd edition by Ian Wright. Ian has revised and slightly expanded his pamphlet, it now also boasts a new cover by the famous anarchist artist Clifford Harper.

#14 Anarchism in Bristol and the West Country to 1950 by Steve Hunt. A new pamphlet by the the author of Pamphleteer #8 Yesterday’s To-morrow – Bristol’s Garden Suburbs.

# 15  Votes For Ladies – The Suffrage Movement 1867 – 1918 by Sheila McNeil. Another new pamphlet, this time asking how ‘radical’ were the Suffragettes and how far did they believe in ‘universal suffrage’.

#16 Anglo-Saxon Democracy by Tony Dyer. Tony gave us a talk on the same subject as part of the BRHG Election Special events earlier this year and has now written it up as the third of our new pamphlets.

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

BRHG have release two new pamphlets:

#12 Tolpuddle And Swing – The Flea And The Elephant and #13Bristol’s White Slave Trade – Indentured and Enforced Labour In The 17th Century.

Bristol Radical Pamphleteer number 11 has now been published. A Barbarous And Ungovernable People by Steve Mills is a look at the often uneasy relationship between the miners of Kingswood Forest and the people and authorities of Bristol. Expect riots, turnpik abuse and the death of an innocent parrot.

Find out about our full range of pamphlets on the Pamphlet Page.