{"id":21554,"date":"2024-03-16T15:44:35","date_gmt":"2024-03-16T15:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/?page_id=21554"},"modified":"2026-01-17T13:15:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T13:15:11","slug":"friends","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='fp-friends__items-wide'><div class='fp-friends__items-wrap'><div class=\"fp-friends__item\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/sixpointscardiff.com\/\" title=\"Six Points\" class=\"fp-friends__item-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/six-points-logo.gif\" class=\"fp-friends__item-img\" alr=\"Logo for Six Points\"\/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fp-friends__item\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/counteringcolston.wordpress.com\/\" title=\"Countering Colston\" class=\"fp-friends__item-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/cropped-colston.gif\" class=\"fp-friends__item-img\" alr=\"Logo for Countering Colston\"\/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fp-friends__item\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/radical.history-from-below.net\/\" title=\"History From Below Network\" class=\"fp-friends__item-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/logo-ic2.jpg\" class=\"fp-friends__item-img\" alr=\"Logo for History From Below Network\"\/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fp-friends__item\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/friends\/\" title=\"Long John Silver Trust\" class=\"fp-friends__item-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Long-John-Silver-Trust-768x1554.png\" class=\"fp-friends__item-img\" alr=\"Logo for Long John Silver Trust\"\/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fp-friends__item\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/pasttense.co.uk\/\" title=\"past tense\" class=\"fp-friends__item-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Pasttense.jpg\" class=\"fp-friends__item-img\" alr=\"Logo for past tense\"\/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fp-friends__item\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/network23.org\/realww1\/\" title=\"Remembering The Real World War I\" class=\"fp-friends__item-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/rrww1-logo.gif\" class=\"fp-friends__item-img\" alr=\"Logo for Remembering The Real World War I\"\/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fp-friends__item\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breviarystuff.org.uk\/\" title=\"Breviary Stuff\" class=\"fp-friends__item-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Brevieary-logo.gif\" class=\"fp-friends__item-img\" alr=\"Logo for Breviary Stuff\"\/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breviarystuff.org.uk\/\">Breviary Stuff Publications<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>An independent publisher of radical history, working class history and history from below. For almost 10 years they have reproduced out-of-print classics along with new titles for affordable prices, unlike the majority of academic publishers.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/counteringcolston.wordpress.com\/\" rel=\"home\">Countering Colston<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>We are a network of individuals who believe that this is wrong and we demand that it should end now.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, we call for action to achieve and perpetuate the following positive aims:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Remember the full, true history of transatlantic slavery, colonialism and exploitation;<\/li>\n<li>Commemorate and mourn the people who suffered and died as a result of the slave trade, and recognise the coerced economic contribution that they made;<\/li>\n<li>Celebrate the people who courageously resisted slavery and fought for abolition and emancipation;<\/li>\n<li>Acknowledge and repair, as far as possible, the negative effects in the present day of historical slavery;<\/li>\n<li>Promote ideas of human dignity, equality and freedom.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/radical.history-from-below.net\/\">History From Below network<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>The History From Below network is a loose international network of independent radical history activists and practitioners.<\/p>\n<h2>Long John Silver Trust<\/h2>\n<p>The Long John Silver Trust (est. 2003) was formed in 2003 with the idea to erect a statue of Bristol\u2019s own Long John Silver, but it developed into the creation of the Treasure Island Trail \u2013 a series of dockside sculptures and images that tell the whole book\u2019s story. As well as a walking trail it would make full use of the waterfront through provision of a ferry boat ride, in the guise of a \u201cPirate Ship\u201d and have a trail centre established at Redcliffe Caves.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/pasttense.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">past tense<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>\u2026 is a project exploring working class, social, subversive and underground history and geography, mainly (but not always) around the areas where we live in London\u2014in print, online, and through walks and occasional talks or actions.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re interested in the past, not as an academic exercise divorced from our own lives and experiences, but because our current struggles to change the world around us for the better resonate with the movements of the past, and have taken place in the same streets and spaces. The ways we work, get housed, feed ourselves may alter over the years and decades\u2014at heart we labour under basically hierarchical social relations\u2014ties and divisions based on class, race, sex, who we choose to sleep with\u2026 and the other walls we desire to break down.<\/p>\n<p>In our doubting ways, we work for a future without pointless work, inequality, war\u2026 And if we don\u2019t see that future, we\u2019ll live as much of it in the present as we can create for ourselves and the people around us.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"site-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/network23.org\/realww1\/\" rel=\"home\">Remembering the Real WW1<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>In line with Bristol\u2019s long radical traditions, RRWW1 want to ensure that there are events locally remembering the reality of this war.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/sixpointscardiff.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Six Points<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Our friends across the water, the Newport Chartist historians have recently founded a publishing house\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sixpointscardiff.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8216;Six Points&#8217;<\/a>, which aims to produce and promote high quality books that explore nineteenth century Radicalism, the ideas of Chartism and their historical antecedents, the movement\u2019s context and development into modern times. 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