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Millerd’s Map 1673

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Witch Hunting

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

Another scene of torturing Jews.

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.

Witches

The devil making love to a witch

Witch riding to the sabbath

The sorcerer Gilbert shackled by the worlock Catillum on the isle of Weterlacus.

Satan rebaptising young scorcerers.

Pirates

Anne Bonny; from Histories der Engelsche Zee-Roovers, 1725.

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.

Anne Bonny & Mary Read; from Captain Charles Johnson's A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pyrates, 1724.

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

The slave chain, Little Popo, 1849.

Toussaint L'Ouverture

A Bristol gun maker's business card. From Bristol Central Reference Library. refinfo@bristol.gov.uk

A slave revolt.

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.

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

James Nayler

Bristol 1831: The Queens Square Uprising

The Bishop's Palace after the 1831 uprising.

North side of Queen Square Bristol the morning after the Dreadful Conflagration, 1831, J. B. Pyne Queen Square North Side In Ruins

The Burning of the Mansion House, Queen Square, 1831, W. J. Müller

The Bristol Riots: The Burning of the New Gaol with St. Paul's Church, Bedminster, 1831, W. J. Müller

Garnett Vrs. Churchill

Winston and his molty minders.

Theresa Garnett gets stuck in.

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.