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The full & fabulous programme of events for the 8th Bristol Radical History Festival 25-26 Apr at M Shed & Cube Microplex is now available on our website: 4 themes: 1926 General Strike, Propaganda, Welsh risings, Utopia. With talks, exhibitions, stalls, films & more tinyurl.com/458vrmmr #BRHF2026

#OtD 27 Feb 1943 the Rosenstrasse protest, began - the only mass public demonstration by Germans against the deportation of Jews, organised by their non-Jewish wives. Lasting until March, the women were successful stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9897...

#OtD 27 Feb 1973 armed Native American activists occupied Wounded Knee, South Dakota, in protest at corruption and US treaty breaches with Native Americans. Despite state violence and killings they held out for 71 days and galvanised huge support stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9898...

46 years ago - what a magical evening
Joy Division and Killing Joke at the Lyceum, London, February 29, 1980.

Photos by Frank Jenkinson

#punk #punkrock #postpunk #postpunkmusic #postpunklegends #joydivision #killingjoke #history #postpunkhistory

#OtD 28 Feb 1789 Barcelona govt increased bread prices. Women took to the streets, robbed stalls and set fire to the municipal oven which made bread for the city. The next day, 8000 rioted to demand price reductions for bread, meat, wine and oil stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9992...

#OtD 28 Feb 1972 the trial of legendary Black communist Angela Davis for murder, kidnapping & conspiracy began in San Jose, CA. Amidst a global campaign of support in June an all-white jury acquitted her of all charges. Davis tells her story in this book: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

#OtD 28 Feb 1921 revolutionary sailors aboard two battleships in Kronstadt, Russia approved a 15-point declaration following the repression of strikes in Petrograd by the Bolsheviks, demanding the gains of the revolution be protected stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9994...

Stories of the Silent: prisoners and paupers at Blackberry Hill. Bristol Archaeological works before redevelopment of former Blackberry Hill NHS hospital have yielded remarkable discoveries relating to site’s 18-19th C past. Cotswold Archaeology. Online Wed Mar 18 (7-8:30 pm tinyurl.com/2pwu339n

We’re pleased to announce that renowned radical historian & BRHG inspiration, Marcus Rediker, is coming to Bristol for UK launch of new book: Freedom Ship - The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery by Sea. Tie in with Bristol Radical History Festival M Shed 24 April (6-7.30pm) #BRHF2026

Crowd braves rain from, & in solidarity with the Kurdish community & against West’s complicity with Islamist takeover in Syria. #Kurds #Bristol

#OtD 7 Feb 1952 nine anarchist anti-Franco guerrillas of the Tallion action group were sentenced to death. Five were executed the following month but four (inc Miguel Garcia, pictured) had sentences commuted to life imprisonment and were later freed stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1069...

Our 'Coal Not Dole' exhibition is now on display at Bristol Archives until the end of February (Tuesday - Thursday).

Preparations for the 8th Bristol Radical History Festival (25-26 Apr) are advancing well! This year’s themes: General Strike; propaganda; Welsh risings; Utopias (& dystopias). Watch this space for full programme soon: tinyurl.com/458vrmmr #BRHF2026

It's crazy that Bristol had a statute of Colston the enslaver for decades, yet barely anyone knows about this guy. This book by @brisradhis.bsky.social is good at bringing him into the light.

Today in the US is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, commemorating the legendary civil right activist and socialist who was murdered supporting a strike of sanitation workers. While lauded today, when alive he was demonised by politicians and media stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1333...

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SATURDAY 25 APRIL @ M SHED
SUNDAY 26 APRIL @ THE CUBE MICROPLEX
8th annual Bristol Radical History Festival: talks, stalls, films, history walks & exhibitions.
This year’s event's 4 main themes: Propaganda, Utopias & Dystopias, Welsh history & the 1926 General Strike.

Talk by Dave Hardwick tomorrow "How Chaddesley Corbett changed the world" Interesting slice of local working class history from SGMRG - South Gloucestershire Mines Research Group in #BS36. All welcome - see here - sgmrg.co.uk/diary-of-eve...

Online & In-Person Event: Wapping at 40. The Wapping Printworkers Strike was an important industrial struggle in the 1980's. Use this link and click through to book/register - www.marx-memorial-library.org.uk/event/521