The Anniversary Rioters’ Walk­  Exactly 180 years after the rioters did it a guided walk from Selborne to Headley and back again ­ distance approximately 7 miles out and 7 miles back.

Tuesday 23rd November 2010 starting at 10am

We plan to walk from Selborne to Headley, from the car park behind the Selborne Arms and finishing at the Holly Bush in Headley. Distance approx 7 miles, some of them muddy. Should arrive in time for a pub lunch.

Please contact me <http://www.johnowensmith.co.uk/riot/walk.htm> for further information.

In 1830, a mob several hundred strong attacked the workhouse in Selborne, Hampshire, turned out the occupants, burned or broke the fittings and furniture, and pulled down the roof.

The next day an even larger mob, containing most of the Selborne rioters, did the same to the workhouse at Headley, some seven miles away. The parsons in both villages were coerced into promising to reduce by half the income they took from tithes.

Less than a month later, at a special court hearing in Winchester attended by no less a person than the Duke of Wellington, nine local men were sentenced to transportation, and all but one sailed for Australia in the Spring of 1831 never to return.

According to the famed historians J.L. & Barbara Hammond, “If these riots had succeeded, the day when the Headley workhouse was thrown down would be remembered … as the day of the taking of the Bastille.”

The video from the Bristol Radical History Walk has been added to the Archive. Let a star studded cast lead you through the streets of Bristol.

There is now a new version of the Bristol Radical History Walk map available. If you are using Firefox the talk for each stop automatically plays we you click on the skeleton. However, for a reason that I can not quite work this does not happen in Explorer and you will still have to click to open the mp3 file.

The audio files from the radical history walk around Bristol on Saturday 31st October have been added to The Archive. You can also navigate your way around the walk as well as the audio files using a Google Map. How modern is that?

View Bristol Radical History Walk October 2009 in a larger map.

Saturday 31st October 2009

As part of the Trapese Popular Education Collective’s ‘Start Producing the Future’ events BRHG are having a Radical History Walk around Bristol.

The walk starts from The Arnolfini at 3pm and will finish at the same place at about 5pm.

The walk will take in the scenes of some radical activism, both ancient and modern, and compare this with the actions of the ‘mob’. So, come for a little light exercise and learn about Thomas Clarkson, Jame Nayler, St. Wulfsan, Dorothy Hazard and various Bristol Riots.