Radical History Zone At this years Bristol Anarchist Bookfair BRHG will again be running the Radical History Zone. As well as a selection of book stalls from history groups and local publishers there we will also be hosting a series of talks (see below for details), poetry and a puppet show. There are also several events in the week running up to the bookfair including a BRHG talk by Gabriel Kuhn (see below). The full programme for the boofair is available from the Bristol Anarchist Bookfair […]
Miscellaneous events from 2012.
Miscellaneous events from 2011.
Miscellaneous events from 2010
At this years Bristol Anarchist Bookfair BRHG will be running the Radical History Zone. As well as a selection of book stalls from history groups and local publishers there we will also be hosting a series of talks (see below for details). The full programme for the boofair is available from the Bristol Anarchist Bookfair website. The stalls include: BRHG Tangent Books Breviary Stuff Publications Long John Silver Trust & Fiducia Living Easton Bloom n Curl Bookshop Pasttense Press Just Seeds […]
The Struggle For Democracy, How We Won It And How We Lost It In the run up to the 2010 election this is your essential guide to how we got the vote, where representational democracy has gone wrong and possible alternatives to party democracy. Recent British histories arrogantly claimed that the 'we' brought democracy to the Empire and ultimately the world in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Despite centuries of struggle to wrestle power from an elite few, the vote in Britain is still seen as a gift […]
Like the Muppets before them, BRHG Take Manhattan
Bristol Radical History Group offers a quality blend of events for Spring 2009, covering both historical and contemporary issues. We begin with future utopian visions (Nowtopia), consider the hidden histories of seminal events of the 1980s (Hillsborough and The Miners’ Strike) and champion revolutionary thinkers who our rulers afear’d (Thomas Paine). To top it all we will be unveiling a plaque on the Seven Stars Pub to commemorate the abolitionist Thomas Clarkson and the Bristol sailors who blew […]
For Bristol Radical History Week 2008 we turn our attention to three connected themes which have sent shivers down the spines of our rulers whether monarchs or ministers for a millennium...Regicide, Republicanism and Political Assassination. As the first people in modern times to have both created a Republic (hussar!) and tried and executed a traitorous king we have both an interesting and progressive history to explore. Starting with this momentous moment, The English Revolution, we will chart […]
