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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.

Witches

The devil making love to a witch

The four witches.

Witch riding on the Devil's he-goat to the Walpurgisnacht, goaded on by amoretti.

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.

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

Toussaint L'Ouverture

'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.

Warships in the bay, buildings burning and general chaos on shore, as the French military are chased from Saint Domingue, 1820.

John Newton. Slave ship captain and writer of several hundred hymns including Amazing Grace. He later became an abolitionist.

Hazard & Nayler

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

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 postcard of the riots in Queen Square. Courtesy of Bristol Central Reference Library refinfo@bristol.gov.uk

A postcard of the riots. Courtesy of Bristol Central Reference Library refinfo@bristol.gov.uk

The Burning of the Bishop's Palace, 1831, W. J. Müller

Garnett Vrs. Churchill

Winston and his molty minders.

Churchill goes down.

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

Roger in a tent.

The alarm clock piñata.

The alarm clock piñata split open.