Breviary Stuff Publications
An independent publisher of radical history, working class history and history from below. For almost 10 years they have reproduced out-of-print classics along with new titles for affordable prices, unlike the majority of academic publishers.
Six Points
Our friends across the water, the Newport Chartist historians have recently founded a publishing house ‘Six Points’, which aims to produce and promote high quality books that explore nineteenth century Radicalism, the ideas of Chartism and their historical antecedents, the movement’s context and development into modern times. A recent work is Peter Strong’s The Bristol Connection, the neglected story of the political, cultural and commercial links across the Bristol Channel between the city of Bristol and Newport and other parts of south east Wales in the 19th century. They followed this up in 2024 with Solidarity across the Severn: Newport, Bristol and Reform in 1831, centred on civil disobedience by the lower orders in Newport in the context of the reform crisis in Monmouthshire and other parts of south Wales in the early 1830s.
History From Below network
The History From Below network is a loose international network of independent radical history activists and practitioners.
Remembering the Real WW1
In line with Bristol’s long radical traditions, RRWW1 want to ensure that there are events locally remembering the reality of this war.
Countering Colston
We are a network of individuals who believe that this is wrong and we demand that it should end now.
Instead, we call for action to achieve and perpetuate the following positive aims:
- Remember the full, true history of transatlantic slavery, colonialism and exploitation;
- Commemorate and mourn the people who suffered and died as a result of the slave trade, and recognise the coerced economic contribution that they made;
- Celebrate the people who courageously resisted slavery and fought for abolition and emancipation;
- Acknowledge and repair, as far as possible, the negative effects in the present day of historical slavery;
- Promote ideas of human dignity, equality and freedom.
past tense
… is a project exploring working class, social, subversive and underground history and geography, mainly (but not always) around the areas where we live in London—in print, online, and through walks and occasional talks or actions.
We’re interested in the past, not as an academic exercise divorced from our own lives and experiences, but because our current struggles to change the world around us for the better resonate with the movements of the past, and have taken place in the same streets and spaces. The ways we work, get housed, feed ourselves may alter over the years and decades—at heart we labour under basically hierarchical social relations—ties and divisions based on class, race, sex, who we choose to sleep with… and the other walls we desire to break down.
In our doubting ways, we work for a future without pointless work, inequality, war… And if we don’t see that future, we’ll live as much of it in the present as we can create for ourselves and the people around us.