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Witch Hunting

Torturing of jews accused by the inquisition as heretics and perpetrators of black magic.
Hanging of a farm woman declared by the inquisition to be possessed by demons. From Rappresentatione della passione. Florence, 1520.
Two dominican monks burned at the stake by order of the inquisition for allegedly signing pacts with the devil. From the Histoire Véritable de Quatre lacopins. Geneva ,1549.
The torture of the inhabitants of Antwerp by Spanish troops under Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alba, after the conquest of the city in 1756.
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Subjects: Women

Tags: witches

Posted: 05/06/2012 Modified: 30/09/2025

Witches

The devil making love to a witch
Witch turned traveller atacking travellers.
Witch riding on the Devil's he-goat to the Walpurgisnacht, goaded on by amoretti.
Satan (Pluto) holding court for newly annointed witches. From Gerard d'Euphrates' Livre de l' histoir & ancienne cronique. Printed by E. Groulleau. Paris 1549.
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Subjects: Women

Tags: witches

Posted: 05/06/2012 Modified: 30/09/2025

Ogden’s Cigarette Cards – Smugglers & Smuggling, 1932

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Subjects: Social Crime

Tags: smuggling

Posted: 05/06/2012 Modified: 30/09/2025

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.
Anne Bonny & Mary Read; from Captain Charles Johnson's A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pyrates, 1724.
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Subjects: Pirates

Posted: 05/06/2012 Modified: 10/06/2012

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

Toussaint L'Ouverture
Slaves being moved to the coast of Africa destined for St. Domingue, 1786.
An African dealer marches Slaves to the coast where they will be sold.
Death of Capt. Ferrer, the Captain of the Amistad, July, 1839.**
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Subjects: Colonialism, Slavery & Resistance

Posted: 05/06/2012 Modified: 30/09/2025

Hazard & Nayler

Widow Kelly* and others barricading the Frome Gate Against Prince Ruppert at the Siege of Bristol 1643. 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
James Nayler From Bristol Past and Present Vol III by J. F. Nicholls and John Taylor 1882.
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Subjects: Radical Bristol, Religion

Tags: Dorothy Hazzard, James Nayler

Posted: 05/06/2012 Modified: 24/09/2025

Bristol 1831: The Queens Square Uprising

The Bishop's Palace after the 1831 uprising.
Queen Square Bristol from North West Corner, 1827, T. L. Rowbotham
A postcard of the riots in Queen Square. Courtesy of Bristol Central Reference Library refinfo@bristol.gov.uk
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Subjects: Democracy & Suffrage, Radical Bristol, Riots & Disturbances

Tags: 1831, Queen Square

Posted: 05/06/2012 Modified: 24/09/2025

Garnett Vrs. Churchill

Winston and his molty minders.
Clementine Churchill.
Garnett is dragged off.
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Subjects: Democracy & Suffrage, Women

Tags: suffragettes, Theresa Garnett

Posted: 05/06/2012 Modified: 24/09/2025

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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Subjects: Uncategorized

Posted: 05/06/2012 Modified: 24/09/2025

Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival 2009

Radical Milk Maids.
Zoey with the alarm clock piñata.
Kids hitting the alarm clock piñata.
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Subjects: Uncategorized

Tags: Tolpuddle, Tolpuddle Martyrs

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