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The Bristol Strike Wave of 1889-90

Miriam Daniell
The Gas Strike - The Bristol Magpie

Ben Tillett
Dan Irving
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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
Great Western Cotton Works, Barton Hill Bristol
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Subjects: Radical Bristol, Women, Workers Organisations & Strikes
Tags: Barton Hill, Great Western Cotton Works, Samual Loxton
Posted: 29/06/2012 Modified: 25/10/2014

Witch Hunting

Torturing of jews accused by the inquisition as heretics and perpetrators of black magic.
Another scene of torturing Jews.

Two dominican monks burned at the stake by order of the inquisition for allegedly signing pacts with the devil. From the Histoire Véritable de Quatre lacopins. Geneva ,1549.
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.
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Subjects: Women
Tags: witches
Posted: 05/06/2012 Modified: 10/06/2012

Witches

The devil making love to a witch

Witches concocting an ointment to be used for flying to the sabbath. By Hans Baldung. Strassburg, 1514.
Witch cunjuring demons.
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Subjects: Women
Tags: witches
Posted: 05/06/2012 Modified: 10/06/2012

Ogden’s Cigarette Cards – Smugglers & Smuggling, 1932


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Subjects: Social Crime
Tags: smuggling
Posted: 05/06/2012 Modified: 10/06/2012

Pirates

Anne Bonny; from Histories der Engelsche Zee-Roovers, 1725.
Edward Teach a.k.a Blackbeard; Captain Charles Johnson's A General History of the Lives and Adventures of the Most Famous Highwaymen, Murderes, Street Robbers &c., 1734.
Anne Bonny & Mary Read; from Captain Charles Johnson's A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pyrates, 1724.
Mary Read; from Histories der Engelsche Zee-Roovers, 1725.
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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
"A slave revolt is terrible because one cannot fire on them, since each man is worth at least 1,000 francs", 1883, Albert Laporte.
Slaves being moved to the coast of Africa destined for St. Domingue, 1786.
European and African slave traders, 1856.
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Section: Articles => Galleries
Subjects: Colonialism, Slavery & Resistance
Posted: 05/06/2012 Modified: 10/06/2020

Hazard & Nayler

James Nayler From Bristol Past and Present Vol III by J. F. Nicholls and John Taylor 1882.
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's ride up Corn Street.
James Nayler
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Subjects: Radical Bristol, Religion
Tags: Dorothy Hazzard, James Nayler
Posted: 05/06/2012 Modified: 10/06/2012

Bristol 1831: The Queens Square Uprising

The Bishop's Palace after the 1831 uprising.
Bristol Burns, 1831, W. J. Müller

Ruins of Warehouse in Prince Street, 1831, W. J. Müller
A postcard of the burning of the New Gaol. 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: 15/02/2015

Garnett Vrs. Churchill

Winston Churchill on the phone.

Winston and his molty minders.
The scuffle continues.
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Section: Articles => Galleries
Subjects: Democracy & Suffrage, Women
Tags: suffragettes, Theresa Garnett
Posted: 05/06/2012 Modified: 10/06/2012

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