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:

Coal Not Dole Exhibition

Bristol Miners' Support Campaign Archive

Date: to , 2026

Time: to

Venue: Bristol Archives, BS1 6XN

Series: Miscellaneous 2026

Bristol Radical History Group (BRHG) are putting an exhibition dedicated to the 1984/85 Miners’ Strike on display at Bristol Archives over February. The exhibition celebrates the work of the Bristol Miners’ Support Campaign during the year long dispute. Over the last eighteen months BRHG has sponsored a project to collect and preserve documents and other materials from the campaign, one of many around the country that aimed to support the communities that were at the forefront of the strike. It […]
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The Centenary of the 1926 General Strike

Date: , 2026

Time:

Venue: Newport Rising Hub, NP20 1JN

With: Chris Bowkett

Series: Miscellaneous 2026

May 2026 marks the 100th anniversary of the nine day ‘General Strike’. This solidarity action was an attempt by the Trades Union Congress (TUC) to prevent wage reductions and increasingly bad working conditions for 1.2 million coal miners who had already been locked-out by their employers. Around 1.7 million workers, mainly in transport and heavy industry, responded and the country was confronted with explicit class war. “I will not see the strikers’ own food left to rot!” Chris Bowkett from the […]
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Gafael Tir – A history of land rights and protest in Wales

Date: , 2026

Time:

Venue: The Cube, BS2 8JD

With: Gwilym Morus-Baird, Owen Shiers, Bethan Lloyd

Series: Bristol Radical History Festival 2026

Gafael Tir, the Welsh sister show to the popular Three Acres and a Cow, is presented in collaboration with Bristol Radical History Group. The show explores the history of ‘y werin’ (the Welsh common folk) and their struggle for a better life. Their tales are told and old ballads sung as we meet kings, crossdressing farmers, radical preachers, land workers and unions; a thousand years of history. Drawing on Welsh folk arts, the show touches on politics, human rights, freedom of thought and […]
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