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 70 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.
What could be more up the Bristol Radical History Group’s street than to time-travel through radical history with Acts of Resistance? We’re therefore overjoyed to dress up and get down to this new Avant-Folk Punk-Opera at the Cube on Saturday 7 September...
Strike: An Uncivil War tells the story of the Battle of Orgreave, the most violent confrontation between miners and police during the 1984/85 Miners’ Strike in Great Britain. At the Curzon Cinema, Clevedon on Thursday 5 September.
The riots of early August 2024 are nothing new, neither the emergence of nationalist, racist violence nor the thousands who came out to oppose it. In this article we take a brief look at the last 100 years in our fair city (and beyond) to demonstrate it has always been people power, not the state, that has successfully opposed fascist and racist violence and protected our communities.
How a garden city became a housing estate, 1943-1963. Houses were desperately needed: What principles should underpin a new ‘settlement’? Where should the houses go? Who were they for? And what provision should be made for the likely political and financial changes over the timescale of the project?
