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, 2021 | Support the Colston 4 – Film Screenings | On the day of the first scheduled court appearance of the Colston 4, there will be a online film screening and conversations to provide a context for that event. January 25th, 2021 will see four […] | Rob Mitchell, Lawrence Hoo, Michael Jenkins, Cleo Lake |
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Webinar – Pamphlet Launch – State Snooping: Spooks, Cops and Double Agents | “State snooping has increased, is increasing and ought to be decreased.” So argue Colin Thomas and Tim Beasley in the fifty-first pamphlet produced by the Bristol Radical History Group. It […] | Colin Thomas, Eveline Lubbers |
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, 2021 | |
Bristol docks and cholera | Cholera reached Bristol on the 11 July 1832. The London Quarterly Review described the new disease sweeping the world in November 1831: ‘It has mastered every variety of climate, surmounted every […] | Rosemary L Caldicott | More |
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Bristol dockers strike of 1949 in support of Canadian Seaman | The 1949 Docks Strike involving Bristol dockers was notable as an international solidarity action in support of strike action by the Canadian Seamen’s Union. Canadian employers had used ‘scab crews’ […] | Di Parkin | More |
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Class war in 1892: Bristol dockers and Black Friday | The success of strikes in 1889 by Bristol dock workers over pay and conditions led to a massive rise in membership of the newly formed dockers unions. In the autumn of 1892 timber merchants based on […] | Roger Ball | More |