Cry  Freedom, Cry Seven Stars – An evening to launch the new Bristol Radical Pamphleteer title Cry Freedom, Cry Seven Stars by Mark Steeds. Including a performance by the Red Notes Choir. This is on Tuesday 7th September.

The Atmosphere of Heaven – A Nitrous Oxide fuelled history walk with Mike Jay through Clifton exploring the themes of his new book; Dr Beddoes, the Romantic Poets and laughing Gas. This is on Sunday 12th September.

Time: 7-10PM

Venue: 81 – 83 STOKES CROFT

Drinks: P.R.S.C. 37 JAMAICA ST.

On the 13th of August 2010, the diversity of life in Stokes Croft will snap into focus with the opening of Stokes Croft Museum: A small independent space opposite Hamilton House on Stokes Croft. Conceived and created by Katy Bauer. Informed and constructed in partnership with The People’s Republic of Stokes Croft.

The project aims to shift the reverence automatically afforded museum environments from the past to the present. With local visitors encouraged to add anecdote, knowledge, ephemera, and fresh observation. These contributions will create an archive and the museum experience will become increasingly layered and changing because of it. People will stamp themselves directly into history instead of waiting for someone to get it all wrong a hundred years hence.

The museum contains what is apparent – chips, dogs, the post office and also reveals that which is hidden: artists, anarchists, policy, the shattered, and the generous. Some of the displays will be curious inventions; however, all the displays will be true!

The museum is intended to be a permanent fixture in Stokes Croft. The initiative receives no funding.

STOKES CROFT MUSEUM: REMEMBERING THE PRESENT

[1]www.stokescroftmuseum.info

[2]http://stokescroft.wordpress.com/

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.

Topics will include the world cup just passed, the next world cup to be held in Brasil and international fan culture. There will also be cheap Brasilian food and cocktails. From 7:30pm at the Stag and Hound at the bottom of Old Market.

Friday 13th August, 7pm, Coleford Baptist Church. £3

In 1831 Warren James led 3000 Foresters to tear down the enclosures that prevented their livelihood….

In 2010 300 people gathered at Hopewell Colliery at an event to remember Warren James and this history…

A talk by Simon Sandall historian, lecturer and author. The free-miners of Dean and the defence of Forest custom during the seventeenth century ‘I want to say a few words about the history of protest in the Forest of Dean, this lecture will provide historical context for the Warren James uprising of the early 1830s.’

This will be followed by a debate on the relevance of Forest rights to those living in the Forest of Dean Today. Free mining and common rights, ownership, privatisation,.. And asks ‘Was Warren Right to Protest?’

Come along and share your views….

BOX OFFICE

All tickets are available at: The Forest Bookshop, 8 St John Street, Coleford

01594 833334 9 am–5.30 pm or on-line, post free, at www.forestbookshop.com

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….

• 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

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

Mills And Bone, from the BRHG Election Special

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

A talk focusing on grassroots organizations in NYC, L.A., Detroit, and New Orleans and the building of sustainable communities.

We are very lucky to have one of the foremost historians of radical Black movements and cultures in the United States, Robin Kelley speaking in Bristol next week.

Upstairs at the Stag and Hounds Pub, 74 Old Market Street, Bristol, BS2 0EJ.