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Pirates

Anne Bonny; from Histories der Engelsche Zee-Roovers, 1725.

Captain Bartholomew and eleven captured merchant vessels off the coast of West Africa. From Captain Charles Johnson's A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pyrates, 1724.

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.

Ned Low; Captain Charles Johnson's A General History of the Lives and Adventures of the Most Famous Highwaymen, Murderes, Street Robbers &c., 1734.

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

Toussaint L'Ouverture

Enslaved Africans in Hold of Slave Ship, 1827

"A slave revolt is terrible because one cannot fire on them, since each man is worth at least 1,000 francs", 1883, Albert Laporte.

Punishment of the Four Stakes, 1849.

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Hazard & Nayler

James Nayler From Bristol Past and Present Vol III by J. F. Nicholls and John Taylor 1882.

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

James Nayler's ride up Corn Street.

James Nayler

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Bristol 1831: The Queens Square Uprising

The Bishop's Palace after the 1831 uprising.

A celebration of the Reform Act being passed, J Rowbotham & W Müller (sic).

West side of Queen Square Bristol the morning after the Dreadful Conflagration, 1831, J. B. Pyne

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

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Garnett Vrs. Churchill

Winston and his molty minders.

The scuffle continues.

Churchill goes down.

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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.

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Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival 2009

Radical Milk Maids.

Hanging on every word.

Roger in a tent.

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The Seven Stars Plaque Unveiling

The Seven Stars Plaque.

The Bristol Civic Society plaque on The Seven Stars.

Madge Dresser and Paul Stephenson.

Plaque artist Mike Baker.

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Three Bands & A Reenactment

Mystery Boy Dave of Who's Afear'd at The Seven Stars.

Captain Cabbaje of the Surfin' Turnips.

Ian O'Mighty Star if the Surin' Turips.

Cran of Who's Afear'd at The Seven Stars.

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