Since 2006 BRHG have organised over 500 events; staging walks, talks, gigs, recreations, films, and exhibitions. We also have several active research projects, and have published over 80 books and pamphlets.
BRHG is NOT funded by universities, political parties, business, or local government, we rely on our members giving their labour for free.
The Bristol Radical History Festival returns this Spring for its eighth edition, with history walks and talks, panel discussions, films and exhibitions. This year’s event has four main themes: Propaganda, Utopias, Welsh Risings and the 1926 General Strike, a singular event that lasted nine days and brought Britain to a standstill.
For over 40 years, British undercover police agents spied on people in the UK. The police unit infiltrated more than 1,000 activist groups. Under false identities stolen from deceased infants, they started relationships with women, had sexual relations and even children. This film documents their activities, followed by Q&A with the Undercover Research Group.
Gafael Tir, the Welsh sister show to the popular Three Acres and a Cow explores the history of ‘y werin’ (the Welsh common folk) and their struggle for a better life. Drawing on Welsh folk arts, the show touches on politics, human rights, freedom of thought and expression, the right to protest and the history of British democracy.
May 2016 is the 100th aniversary of the General Strike. Find out more about the General Strike 100 project, a national partnership of museums, libraries, archives and history groups. And find out what is going on locally...
