Gideon Defoe & Peter Lord Pirates! Adventures with scientists...and historians!

At The MShed Pirates and adventurers take over the Harbourside to tell us who they were, what they did and why. The author and the film-maker arrive by ship to the MShed to show us how they turned a cracking, madcap novel into a blockbuster Aardman film, with BBC Bristol’s Steve Yabsley as your host. Have your books signed by Gideon Defoe who... More →

No Quarter

No Quarter is an excellent zine from Calgary, Canada that explores radical history and its connections to a radical present from an anarchist perspective and from outside the academy. It is an unusual and innovative use of the 'zine' medium to investigate hidden history. Past topics have included radical pirates, social banditry, anarchist... More →

Treasure Island

Disney's adaptation of Robert Louis Stephenson's classic tale. Newton, in splendid form, arguably gives the best big screen characterisation of literature's most famous unidexter. Join such legends as Ben Gunn, Israel Hands, Jim Hawkins and Blind Pew in this ripping yarn. 1950, 96 mins Starring : Robert Newton, Bobbie Driscoll Directed by : Byron... More →

Bristol & The Revolutionary Atlantic

A Spot in Time: The Opposition between Terror and the Commons in the Perspective of the Atlantic Revolutions - Peter Linebaugh Was the coincidence on 2 April 1792 in the attempts to abolish the African slave trade and to make the English working class 'a spot of time', to paraphrase William Wordsworth, where vivifying virtue may restore our minds... More →