Subject Index: Commons, Customary Rights & Enclosures

How we had commonly owned land and how we lost it to lager land owners and sheep.

Walter Virgo and the Blakeney Gang

Type: Pamphlet
By Ian Wright,
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Walter Virgo and the Blakeney These are some of the headlines which started appearing in the Gloucester Citizen and Western Daily Press in the 1890s. This pamphlet will try and get by behind the headlines and reveal what was really going on in the Blakeney area of the Forest of Dean the time. THE BLAKENEY OUTRAGES “WORSE THAN IRELAND” - THE... More →

Poor Man's Heaven: The Land of Cokaygne and Other Utopian Visions

Type: Event
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With: Alex (Past Tense),
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“We’ll eat all we please from ham and egg trees that grow by a lake full of beer? The landlord well take and tie to a stake and we won?t have to work like a slave..." In the face of a life defined by exploitation and suffering, the poor of the Middle Ages dreamed up a fantastical land where their sufferings were reversed; where people lived in... More →

ACTION NOW! The Forest of Dean

Type: News
ACTION NOW!The Forest of Dean is being Enclosed and Sold off! Join us for a 'walk' on Sunday the 3rd of February! Take Notice, Foresters All, that Free Peoples of the Forest, intend to Meet at 12o'clock near the Free Miner Monument in Cinderford Triangle on Sunday next, the 3rd of February instant for the purpose of Opening the Forest, which hath... More →

HOOF Say's: Let's Have A Party

Type: Event
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HANDS Off Our Forest is organising a celebratory party at Speech House, and everyone is invited to let their hair down and cheer the campaign’s victory. Musicians and entertainers, who rallied to the cause of keeping our Forest in public ownership, will be singing songs – many inspired by the great HOOF battle - with a little poetry and comedy... More →

Breviary Stuff Publications

Type: Radical History Listing
Breviary Stuff Publications is concerned with ‘history from below’, the history of ordinary people and our perpetual struggles for some fairness and freedom from the oppression that we have been and are forced to endure in our daily lives. We are not concerned with the history of ‘great men‘, the wealthy, the powerful, the famous. We are... More →

The BRH Summer Party On Brandon Hill

Type: Event
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With: Steve Poole, Craig Ruckus,
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Reclaim the Hill!: A celebration of the radical history of Brandon Hill and Stop the College Green Dispersal Order. Despite the vagaries of the English summer of 2007, a small but feisty mob of radical historians, skate boarders and cider drinkers gathered on Brandon Hill in Clifton on August 19th. We were both celebrating the 175th anniversary of... More →

Winstanley

Type: Event
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With: Steve Mills,
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Winstanley – Andrew Mollo & Kevin Brownlow, UK / 1975 / 95 mins / cert 1 Join us and the Bristol Anarchist Bookfair Collective for this screening of a restored version of this important film from 1975. In the run up to the Bristol Anarchist Bookfair on 12 September, this film evokes some of the earliest examples of anarchist thought and... More →