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, 2019 | John Deed: Heart of Darkness | “Heart of Darkness” is a drama from the controversial Judge Deed series. It was transmitted in 2006 but the BBC Editorial Complaints Unit decided that this episode should not be shown again. It […] | G.F. Newman | More | |
, 2019 | Life and death in two Bristol Victorian workhouses | Congresbury History Group, Congresbury Methodist Hall, 2 High St, Congresbury, Bristol BS49 5JA Roger Ball, co-author of 100 Fishponds Rd: Life and death in a Victorian workhouse explains how a team […] | Rosemary L Caldicott, Roger Ball |
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History Walk: Riots, Massacres and Reform 1700s-1832 | This 1.5 hour walk in the centre of Bristol takes us through a century of working class history, charting the path of the ‘crowd’ from the ‘moral economy’ of the 1700s, through the effects of the […] | Roger Ball | More |
, 2019 | Pauper Graves Memorial Unveiling | In 2012 Bristol Radical History Group launched a project to research into the thousands of unmarked graves of paupers from the Eastville workhouse (at 100 Fishponds Road) who were buried in nearby […] | More | ||
, 2019 | Performance: War in Mind | This new powerful dramatic performance looks at the real lives of people affected by shell shock in the First World War. Driver William Charles Phillips, a Tetbury man who though he never actively […] | John Bassett | More | |
, 2019 | Bedminster Union Workhouse | As part of their History Week, Bedminster Library (Bedminster Parade, Bedminster, Bristol BS3 4AQ) have a talk by Rosemary Caldicott, author of The Life and Death of Hannah Wiltshire: A Case Study of […] | Rosemary L Caldicott | More | |
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Bristol’s Nautical Women | Glenside Museum, The Chapel, Glenside Campus, Blackberry Hill, Stapleton, Bristol BS16 1DD An evening of nautical intrigue! Author Rosemary Caldicott will be telling us about her new book in which […] | Rosemary L Caldicott | More |
, 2019 | Mining Labour Wars | Based on his co-authored book, Anthracite Labor Wars, Prof. Bob Wolensky will speak about a 40-year "labour war" that resulted from the mining arrangements between the Pennsylvania Coal Company and a […] | Robert Wolensky | More | |
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‘Buried like Dogs?’ | Elaborate funeral ceremonies became very important to middle-class Victorians, with increasingly meticulous rituals designed to mark the passing of family members. However, for the Victorian poor, […] | Roger Ball | More |
, 2019 | ‘Nautical Women and the Rum Do’ | Bristol Harbour Festival Bristol Harbour Masters Office, Underfall Yard, Cumberland Road, Bristol, BS1 6XG By kind invitation of the Blue Schooner Company and introducing their ethical trading ship De […] | Rosemary L Caldicott | More | |
, 2019 | Film Premiere: Steps Against War | Bedminster Library, 4 Bedminster Parade, Bristol BS3 4AQ Earlier this year, a group of local people worked with Otherstory and Remembering the Real WW1 to discover untold stories of Bedminster people […] | Otherstory | More | |
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Burning Bristol: the 1831 ‘reform riot’ | This talk is part of the above event at Cardiff Museum, The Old Library, The Hayes, Cardiff CF10 1BH In 2006, The Guardian newspaper ran a series of articles in a search “for the most overlooked […] | Roger Ball | More |
, 2019 | Screening of Steps Against War film | Earlier this year, a group of local people worked with Otherstory and Remembering the Real WW1 to discover untold stories of Bedminster people in the First World War. Together we created Steps Against […] | Otherstory | More | |
, 2019 | Nautical Women | By invitation of The Friends committee of Bishopston Library, Bishopston Library, Gloucester Road, Bristol BS7 8BN Author Rosemary Caldicott will be telling us about her new book in which she […] | Rosemary L Caldicott | More | |
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The REAL Black Friday | Glenside Museum, The Chapel, Glenside Campus, Blackberry Hill, Stapleton, Bristol BS16 1DD Bristol Radical History group author, researcher and co-founder Roger Ball talks us through the REAL ‘Black […] | Roger Ball | More |
, 2019 | Unquiet Graves | Between 1972 and 1978 more than 120 innocent civilians in Northern Ireland were murdered. Documentary director Sean Murray set out to investigate and found disturbing evidence of collusion between the […] | More | ||
, 2019 | Antifa Benefit and BRHG Pamphlet Launch: Facing up to the Fascists | This Saturday there’ll be post-election fun and games with a serious edge at this event – a fundraiser for Bristol Antifascists and the launch of a new BRHG pamphlet plus a seasonal knees-up – all in […] | Colin Thomas | More |