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Witch Hunting

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

Protestants and jews accused by the inquisition heresy and witchcraft. From a contemporary woodcut. Nuremberg, 1493.

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.

Newsletter about the infernal deeds and the execution of the witch Anna Eberlehrin. Printed by Elias Wellhöffe, "Briefmaler" at Ausburg, 1669.

Witches

The devil making love to a witch

Witch turned traveller atacking travellers.

Witch riding to the sabbath

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.

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.

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

Toussaint L'Ouverture

Enslaved Africans in Hold of Slave Ship, 1827

'Rt. Excellent Samuel Sharpe, National Hero' on the Bank of Jamaica $50 note. Sharpe was an educated town slave who became the leader of the 1831 Jamaica uprising.

A slave revolt.

Hazard & Nayler

Mistress Dorothy Hazard and the Women of Bristol Defending The Frome Gate 1643.

James Nayler's ride up Corn Street.

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

Queen Square Bristol from North West Corner, 1827, T. L. Rowbotham

West side of Queen Square Bristol the morning after the Dreadful Conflagration, 1831, J. B. Pyne

Garnett Vrs. Churchill

Winston Churchill on the phone.

Clementine Churchill.

Garnett is dragged off.

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

The happy pamphleteers.

Hanging on every word.

Roger in a tent.