Winston Churchill Archives - Bristol Radical History Group

Liverpool 1911 - A City On The Edge

Type: Event
Date: Sunday 27th November, 2011

Steve Higginson "Rhythms That Carry" "You need not attach great importance to the rioting in Liverpool last night. It took place in an area where disorder is a chronic feature". - Winston Churchill When Churchill made this statement to Parliament, Liverpool was under martial law: a gunboat was moored on the Mersey, dockers, seafarers, and... More →

International Women's Day 2010

Type: News

Bristol Radical History Group will be participating in the International Women's Day event on Saturday 6th March (10am-4pm) at the Council House, College Green, Bristol. The event is free. BRHG will be giving a short talk on the suffragette Theresa Garnett who attacked Winston Churchill on Temple Meads station 100 years ago last year (see ... More →

Theresa Garnett Vrs. Winston Churchill

Type: News

Theresa Garnett Vrs. Winston Churchill Video from the re-enactment of Theresa Garnett attacking Winston Churchill at Bristol Temple Meads in 1909. Filmed by Alex Milne. Find out more about this event. The audio files from ... More →

Theresa Garnette Vrs. Winston Churchill

Type: Written Articles
By Anny Cullum,

A short article about Theresa Garnett's attack on Winston Churchill in 1909 at Bristol Temple Meads. This article was distributed as a flyer during the Garnett Vrs. Churchill re-enactment. More →

Suffragette Day

Type: News

Saturday 31st October. 12-2:30pm Garrett Vrs. Churchill 12pm Bristol Temple Meads On 15 November 1909 in Temple Meads Station Winston Churchill, then Home Secretary, stepped from a railway carriage and was attacked by Theresa Garnett (a member of the Women's Social and Political Union) who was wielding a riding crop. Or, as Votes For Women put... More →