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Witch Hunting

Torturing of jews accused by the inquisition as heretics and perpetrators of black magic.

Mass execution of citizens of Haalem as disciples of the devil under Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alba, after the conquest of Haalem in 1753.

The public hanging of the three Chelmsford witches Joan Prentice, Joan Cony and Joan Upney. From an English pamphlet, 1598.

Title page from one of Cotton Mather's witch-hunting pamphlets. Printed by Benjamin Harris for Samuel Phillips. Boston, 1693.

Witches

The devil making love to a witch

Witch cunjuring demons.

Scorcerers exchanging the bible for a book of black magic.

Satan applying his claw mark to an apprentice sorcerer.

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.

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.

Mary Read; from Histories der Engelsche Zee-Roovers, 1725.

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

Toussaint L'Ouverture

A Jamaican slave revolt, 1759. From Histoire d'Angleterre by David Francois.

Punishment of the Four Stakes, 1849.

Olaudah Equiano. A slave who bought his freedom and later campaigned against slavery in England.

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 having his tongue bored From Bristol Past and Present Vol III by J. F. Nicholls and John Taylor 1882.

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.

Bristol 1831: The Queens Square Uprising

The Bishop's Palace after the 1831 uprising.

A poster calling for people to sign a petition for reform. Courtesy of Bristol Central Reference Library refinfo@bristol.gov.uk

A celebration of the Reform Act being passed, J Rowbotham & W Müller (sic).

Ruins of Warehouse in Prince Street, 1831, W. J. Müller

Garnett Vrs. Churchill

Winston Churchill on the phone.

Clementine Churchill.

The minders go for Garnett.

Rachel Hewitt

By Rachel Hewitt

Pike War. 2008. Oil stick on canvas.

Peasants Revolt. 2008. Charcoal on paper.

1831 Bristol Jamaica Riots. 2007. Oil on canvas.

The Tempest Witches. 2007. Oil on canvas.

Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival 2009

Hanging on every word.

Roger in a tent.

Zoey with the alarm clock piñata.