Events Diary

This is where forthcoming events are listed. If you would like to receive email notification of events please ask to join the email list using the form on the contact page.

You can also see a list of Event Series and a list of all the events we have ever done listed chronologically.

Current & forthcoming Event Series:

We must begin with the land

Seeking abundance and liberation through social ecology

Date: , 2025

Time: to

Venue: Clevedon Community Centre, BS21 7SZ

With: Stephen E. Hunt

Series: Miscellaneous 2025

Food is glorious. Food is glorious, but it is also increasingly precarious. This may not make headlines, but we all need to care. Office for National Statistics figures suggest that domestic food inflation has seen prices rise by more than a third since 2020. This is currently leading to a proliferation of food banks, unimaginable only a few years ago. Shockingly, world hunger has increased during the past decade, according to the United Nations. The reasons for this situation are complex but […]
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Decades of Deceit

The Stalker affair and its legacy

Date: , 2025

Time: to

Series: Not in a series

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The Violence, Crime and Social Harm Research Centre, and the Centre for Crime Law and Society at the University of Bristol are delighted to welcome Professor Paddy Hillyard from Queen’s University of Belfast who will be discussing his new book 'Decades of Deceit: The Stalker Affair and its Legacy.’ This includes a forensic account of the Stalker inquiry into RUC shoot-to-kill operations in 1982. It questions the official narrative that there was no conspiracy to remove Stalker and details the […]
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Annie Townley (1878-1966)

Dedicated to working-women's rights and social justice

Date: , 2025

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Venue: Museum of Bath at Work, BA1 2RH

With: June Hannam

Series: Miscellaneous 2025

June Hannam will bring to life Annie’s remarkable journey from working-class Lancashire textile mill worker to employment as a Bristol-based organiser in the suffrage and labour movements. June Hannam is the author of the BRHG publication Annie Townley: A force for socialism and peace.
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Hartcliffe Betrayed

The fading of a post-war dream

Date: , 2025

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Venue: Wrington URC Chapel, BS40 5NF

With: Paul Smith

Series: Miscellaneous 2025

Plans were drawn up post-war for the Hartcliffe area which would develop it into a “garden city” with modernistic facilities and open spaces but mistakes, bureaucracy and political constraints led to these dreams not being fulfilled.Wrington URC Chapel Roper’s Lane BS40 5NF
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Outcasts of Medicine

Epilepsy, Poverty, and the Workhouse System

Date: , 2025

Time: to

With: Rosemary L Caldicott

Series: Miscellaneous 2025

As part of the The Bristol Medico-Historical Society meeting, 'History Around Us', Rosemary Caldicott will be giving a talk: Outcasts of Medicine: Epilepsy, Poverty, and the Workhouse System Discover how epilepsy was misunderstood, feared, and stigmatised in the 19th century, often leading sufferers into the harsh realities of the workhouse. Rosemary uncovers the intersection of medical prejudice, social class, and poverty, revealing hidden lives at the margins of history. This talk brings to […]
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