32 Events, Over 9 Days at 7 Venues. Bristol Radical History Week 2006 was a series of events aimed at opening up to public scrutiny some of the hidden and misrepresented history of Bristol. Rather then concentrating on royals, famous engineers or wealthy merchants, Bristol Radical History Week was concerned with the proper people of Bristol. The mass of sometime rebellious and mutinous people who had their own agendas to fulfil. Lectures, debates, music, art, film, re-enactments and (if you can believe it) more. More →

March 2007 was the 200th anniversary of the parliamentary abolition of the slave trade in the British Empire. This was a series of events to both mark and critique the occasion. In a series of public lectures and debates we examined some of the areas of the history that were neglected by the official events. We also examined the links between punk, beer and the abolitionist movement in Bristol. More →

Miscellaneous events from 2007. More →

Bristol Radical History Group turns its single beady eye onto these icons of the past, so deeply reviled by the rulers of their time. Who were these ‘outcasts’? Why are we so fascinated by them? Do their villainous representations carry clues to their real nature? Another heady brew of lectures, debates, film, outings, story telling, music, cider and the now infamous Pirate Booze Cruise. More →

Bristol Radical History Group raised over £3000 for a new plaque outside The Seven Stars pub in Thomas Lane, Redcliffe, Bristol. It was at the Seven Stars that abolisionist Thomas Clakson met Landlord Thompson and began taking statements from sailors who had worked on slave ships. The pub is not only an important historical landmark in Bristol but also holds a unique place within world history. More →

From Magna Carta to the enclosure rioters of the Forest of Dean; from the stripping of the oil commons of the 20th century to the enclosure of the peoples’ game in the Premier League; from the rise of the corporations to the massive gentrification programme launched in our cities, we examined the process of enclosure, the forces that drive it and some of the historical and current confrontations that have occurred as a result. More →

Assassins, Plots & Regicide – 10 days of lectures, debates, gigs and ‘happenings’ dedicated to the men and women who have attempted to instigate political change, through fair means or foul. Join us, as we explore the past to discover the present. Bristol Radical History Week 2008 is not just about lectures and debates, we our usual mixture of great gigs , our popular history walks, a recreation of a regicide, opening the archives and its all rounded off with a bonfire night of stories, toffee apples and effigy burning! More →

Miscellaneous events from 2009. More →

Bristol Radical History Group offers a quality blend of events for Spring 2009, covering both historical and contemporary issues. We began with future utopian visions (Nowtopia), consided the hidden histories of seminal events of the 1980s (Hillsborough and The Miners’ Strike) and championed Thomas Paine. To top it all we unveiled a plaque on the Seven Stars Pub to commemorate the abolitionist Thomas Clarkson and the Bristol sailors who blew the whistle on the slave trade. More →

A series of events from the Autumn of 2009. Including Bristol Anarchist Bookfair, a trip to Bridport, anti-fascism and suffragettes. More →

A small BRHG mob Takes Manhattan, as the Muppets did before them. A seriers of talks and a visit to the Midnight Notes 30 Conference. More →

Miscellaneous events from 2010 More →

The Struggle For Democracy, How We Won It And How We Lost It In the run up to the 2010 election this is your essential guide to how we got the vote, where representational democracy has gone wrong and possible alternatives to party democracy. Recent British... More →

At the 2010 Anarchist Bookfair BRHG hosted a series of talks in the ‘Radical History Zone’. More →

Download the PDF programme of events (2MB Adobe Acrobat File) Download a hi-resolution 70s black & white poster (275KB JPEG... More →

Miscellaneous events from 2011. More →

In 2011 we again ran the Radical History Zone at the Bristol Anarachist Bookfair. More →

More →

Miscellaneous events from 2012. More →

Miscellaneous events from 2013. More →

After a year off we’re back for our 5th Bookfair in 2013! The Bookfair Collective has switched venues this year to somewhere with more outdoor space, and we’re a little earlier in anticipation of another hot April. Taking the outdoors theme a little further, expect a potential playfull mix of bookfair and fayre. But we remain deadly serious... More →