Bristol Radical History Agenda

Some events featuring BRHG this month in Weston-super-Mare, Cardiff and Bristol :

The Captain Swing Riots

Date: Fri 10th Feb, 2017
Time: 2:15 pm
Venue: United Reform Church Hall, Boulevard, Waterloo St, Weston-super-Mare BS23 1LF
Price: Note: this is for University of the Third Age members, you will need to join at the event if you are not a member.
With: Roger Ball

The ‘Swing riots’ were a massive wave of protests, machine breaking, arson and extortion carried out by impoverished farm labourers and village artisans between the summers of 1830-31. More details here.

The 1831 Bristol rising - solidarity in South Wales

Date: Sat 18th Feb, 2017
Time: 1.00-2.00 pm
Venue: Room 1, Cathays Community Centre, 36-38 Cathays Terrace, Cardiff CF24 4HX
Price: Free-Donation
With: BRHG
Note: This workshop is part of Cardiff Anarchist Bookfair.

After the defeat of the first reform bill in early October 1831 violent protests exploded in many British cities. The rising in Bristol was the most spectacular and suffered the harshest repression by the military. This talk considers this revolt and, using new research, solidarity actions in South Wales to aid the Bristol ‘rioters’.

Spies and Trouble Makers: Wales's response to the Russian revolution

Date: Thu 23rd Feb, 2017
Time: 7:30-9:30 pm
Venue: The Hydra Bookshop, 34 Old Market St, Bristol BS2 0EZ
Price: Donations
With: Aled Eirug
On the centenary of the February revolution in Russia, this talk considers the impact of these world changing events on the Welsh people. Aled Eirug is the former head of news and current affairs at BBC Wales and is writing a book on Welsh opposition to the First World War.
For more information on these events see: http://www.brh.org.uk/site/event-diary/

Ireland, Spain & Tolstoyan Anarchism

Captain Jack White DSO, from Imperialism to Anarchism
  Meeting  Date: Tue 10th May, 2016
Time: 8:00 pm
Venue: The Hydra Bookshop, BS2 0EZ
Price: Donation
With: Leo Keohane, Kevin Boylan

Captain Jack White DSO attracted adjectives like jam does wasps – flamboyant, gallant, romantic, handsome, idiosyncratic, incorrigible – and every one of them was appropriate.  He was a Presbyterian from the northern part of Ireland who fought in the Boer War, became the first commander of the Irish Citizen Army in the 1913 Dublin Lockout, was arrested for sedition during WW1, fell foul of all the police/paramilitary/governmental authorities in Ireland between 1913 and 1936, and participated in the Spanish Civil War.  As well as travelling the world, Jack also participated in the Tolstoyan Whiteway Colony in Gloucestershire.

Leo Keohane, author of Captain Jack White: Imperialism, Anarchism and the Irish Citizen Army (Merrion Press, 2014) is a lecturer in Critical Theory at the Centre for Irish Studies, NUI Galway, Ireland.

More details about this event here.

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Bristol Anarchist Bookfair

AS part of the Bristol Anarchist Bookfair (now the biggest event on the left in Bristol) on Saturday 20th April, Bristol Radical History Group (BRHG) will be running the Radical History Zone (RHZ) at the Hydra Bookshop (34 Old Market St, Bristol, BS2 0EZ). This is a series of talks/presentations/discussions and performances covering radical history.
The events and times in the RHZ are as follows: 

Hydra Bookshop: Saturday 20th April 

12.00pm-1.00pm: British armed forces’ strikes and mutinies in 1918-19: a radical history project for the anniversary of World War I ... (Roger Ball/Bristol Radical History Group)

1.00pm-2.00pm: Three minutes to midnight: the women’s anti-nuclear protest at Greenham Common ...
(Elaine Titcombe)

2.00pm-3.00pm: Running down Whitehall with a black flag: memories of anarchism in the 1960′s ...
(Di Parkin/Bristol Radical History Group)

3.00pm-4.00pm: Poor Man’s Heaven: the Land of Cokaygne and other utopian visions ...
(Omasius Gorgut/Past Tense Publications)

4.00pm-5.00pm: Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power: Race, Class and Gender in the 60′s U.S.  ... (Roger Ball/BRHG) 

5.00pm onwards: ‘Libres’: Songs of the Spanish Revolution  .... (Pilar Lopez)

Full details of these events and the bookfair can be found at: 

http://www.bristolanarchistbookfair.org/radical-history-zone-programme-for-the-bristol-anarchist-bookfair-2013/
or http://www.brh.org.uk/site/events/

Bristol Radical History Group will also have (along with many other publishers) a bookstall at the main site on the first floor (Trinity Arts centre, Trinity Road, Bristol BS2 0NW)

Looking forward to seeing some or all of you there. 
Cheers,
Bristol Radical History Group