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Old Market

Old Market in a postcard postmarked 1909
Means Test
A postcard of Old Market in 1860 printed in 1907
Police baton charge unemployed workers march on Old Market Street, February 23rd 1932.
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Section: Articles Galleries

Subjects: Radical Bristol, Riots & Disturbances, Workers Organisations & Strikes

Tags: NUWM, Old Market, Old Market Riot

Posted: 29/06/2012 Modified: 02/10/2025

The Bristol Strike Wave of 1889-90

Miriam Daniell
The Gas Strike - The Bristol Magpie
Robert Allan Nicol
Ben Tillett
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Section: Articles Galleries

Subjects: Radical Bristol, Workers Organisations & Strikes

Tags: Ben Tillett, Dan Irving, Edward Watson, Helena Born, John Gregory, Miriam Daniell, Robert Allan Nicol, Robert Tovey

Posted: 29/06/2012 Modified: 26/03/2014

Great Western Cotton Works, Barton Hill

Great Western Cotton Works, Barton Hill Bristol
Great Western Cotton Works, Barton Hill Bristol
Great Western Cotton Works, Barton Hill Bristol By Samual Loxton
Great Western Cotton Works, Barton Hill Bristol
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Section: Articles Galleries

Subjects: Radical Bristol, Women, Workers Organisations & Strikes

Tags: Barton Hill, Great Western Cotton Works, Samual Loxton

Posted: 29/06/2012 Modified: 01/10/2025

Witch Hunting

Torturing of jews accused by the inquisition as heretics and perpetrators of black magic.
Broadside newsletter about the public burning of three witches Derneburg October 1555.
The torture of the inhabitants of Antwerp by Spanish troops under Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alba, after the conquest of the city in 1756.
The public hanging of the three Chelmsford witches Joan Prentice, Joan Cony and Joan Upney. From an English pamphlet, 1598.
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Section: Articles Galleries

Subjects: Women

Tags: witches

Posted: 05/06/2012 Modified: 30/09/2025

Witches

The devil making love to a witch
Witches brewing up a hailstorm. (title page)
Wizard riding to the sabbath
Sorcerer riding the waves on a peice of floatsam.
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Section: Articles Galleries

Subjects: Women

Tags: witches

Posted: 05/06/2012 Modified: 30/09/2025

Ogden’s Cigarette Cards – Smugglers & Smuggling, 1932

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Section: Articles Galleries

Subjects: Social Crime

Tags: smuggling

Posted: 05/06/2012 Modified: 30/09/2025

Pirates

Anne Bonny; from Histories der Engelsche Zee-Roovers, 1725.
Ann Mills; from Portraits, Memories, and Characters of Remarkable Persons from the Revolution of 1688 to the End of the Reign of King George II, James Caufield, 1820.
Captain Bartholomew and eleven captured merchant vessels off the coast of West Africa. From Captain Charles Johnson's A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pyrates, 1724.
Anne Bonny & Mary Read; from Captain Charles Johnson's A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pyrates, 1724.
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Section: Articles Galleries

Subjects: Pirates

Posted: 05/06/2012 Modified: 10/06/2012

Pictures of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, Abolitionists and Maroon Rebels

Toussaint L'Ouverture
An imagined picture of a slave auction used as propaganda before the American Civil War.
European and African slave traders, 1856.
Slave Market on the Kambia River, Coast of Africa. A woodcut from an oil painting from 1840.
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Subjects: Colonialism, Slavery & Resistance

Posted: 05/06/2012 Modified: 30/09/2025

Hazard & Nayler

Widow Kelly* and others barricading the Frome Gate Against Prince Ruppert at the Siege of Bristol 1643. From Bristol Past and Present Vol III by J. F. Nicholls and John Taylor 1882.
James Nayler
James Nayler From Bristol Past and Present Vol III by J. F. Nicholls and John Taylor 1882.
James Nayler being whipped From Bristol Past and Present Vol III by J. F. Nicholls and John Taylor 1882.
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Section: Articles Galleries

Subjects: Radical Bristol, Religion

Tags: Dorothy Hazzard, James Nayler

Posted: 05/06/2012 Modified: 24/09/2025

Bristol 1831: The Queens Square Uprising

The Bishop's Palace after the 1831 uprising.
Ruins Opposite The Assembly Rooms, Princes St. Bristol.
North side of Queen Square Bristol the morning after the Dreadful Conflagration, 1831, J. B. Pyne Queen Square North Side In Ruins
A postcard of the riots. Courtesy of Bristol Central Reference Library refinfo@bristol.gov.uk
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Subjects: Democracy & Suffrage, Radical Bristol, Riots & Disturbances

Tags: 1831, Queen Square

Posted: 05/06/2012 Modified: 24/09/2025

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