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brisradhis.bsky.social @brisradhis.bsky.social · 5h

Anarchist agitator, Ian Bone, co-founder of Class War in the 1980s, & the ‘smiter of the high and mighty’ The Bristolian scandal sheet around 2000, played a major part in getting Bristol Radical History Group off the ground in 2006. www.brh.org.uk/site/2026/09...

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brisradhis.bsky.social @brisradhis.bsky.social · 5h

Congratulations to Trevor Houghton on the publication of 'Bristol, a city born out of slavery', the 71st BRHG pamphlet. Bristol’s 11th C. slave market "flourished with the connivance of the Godwin family—the power brokers of Anglo–Saxon England.” Available now: www.brh.org.uk/site/pamphle...

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 8h

#OtD 2 Oct 1944 the Warsaw Uprising against Nazi occupation was finally crushed after two months of vicious fighting

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brisradhis.bsky.social @brisradhis.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

We look forward to the Bristol Radical History Group Radical History Zone on the Spanish Revolution. Quaker Central, Champions Sq BS2 9DB 24 October 2026 (10am-5pm). A tie-in with the Bristol Anarchist Bookfair. Watch this space! www.brh.org.uk/site/event-s...

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 14/09/2026

#OtD 14 Sep 1944 Jewish-Italian resistance fighter, Franco Cesana, was killed in action fighting Nazi occupation forces in Gombola, aged 12. Fighting with the nom de guerre of "Balilla", he was one of the youngest Italian partisans to die in battle workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e77-...

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 14/09/2026

#OtD 14 Sep 1889 a rebellion of Black miners began on Navassa Island, a US territory. Guano miners rebelled against dangerous, racist and abusive conditions, and killed some white managers. US troops arrested 18 miners and charged them with murder stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7759...

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Weird Bristol @weirdbristol.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

In the folklore tale on the creation of Bristol two giants, Vincent & Goram were challenged by the beautiful maiden Avona to drain a lake which covered the land. Goram tried to dig a gorge near Henbury but fell asleep in what’s now known as Goram’s Chair in Blaise Castle Estate.

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brisradhis.bsky.social @brisradhis.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Bristol RHG & Bookhaus are delighted to present Katrina Navickas speaking about her recent book Contested Commons: A History of Protest & Public Space in England. With Q&A chaired by Prof. Steve Poole. Free event Thu 5 Nov (6-8pm), Bookhaus BS1 6ZJ. Booking: www.brh.org.uk/site/events/...

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brisradhis.bsky.social @brisradhis.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Excited to announce the second in the Bristol Radical History Group’s podcast series where Chris Bowkett interviews Lorraine Fish about growing up in Bristol in the 1960-70s (Patchway, Horfield, Filton): www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib10...

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Bristol Radical History Podcast: Interview with Lorraine Fish

YouTube video by Bristol Radical History Group

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 14/09/2026

#OtD 14 Sep 1960 a US-backed coup took place in Congo against the country's first democratically elected PM, socialist independence leader Patrice Lumumba. He was tortured, shot and had his body dissolved in acid. Learn more about colonialism in Congo: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/lor...

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brisradhis.bsky.social @brisradhis.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Catch Bristol Central Library’s Gulliver’s Travels 300 exhibition by 27th September 2026! Collaboration between the Long John Silver Trust and Bristol Radical History Group: www.brh.org.uk/site/events/...

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brisradhis.bsky.social @brisradhis.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Forthcoming event: BASE Cafe & 'Making Anarchism Mainstream Again' Talk 20 September 2026 (6 - 9:30pm) After the Cafe – at 7pm in the Events Room there'll be a talk and discussion with Tony from the Rebel City London collective.

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Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick @mrcwarwick.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

School meals! Solid glaring from this child of 1960, as she waits for her dinner to be flung onto a plate The National Union of Teachers' archive is a great source on changing attitudes and campaigns relating to food in schools over the past 100 years

Front cover of 1960 National Union of Teachers' pamphlet on school meals. It is illustrated with a photo of a child glaring at the camera, past the hand of an adult about to fling a lump of mash onto an underwhelming looking dinner.

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Municipal Dreams @municipaldreams.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The Bristol Record Society has digitised and shared publicly Rosamond Jevons and John Madge, 'Housing Estates: a Study of Bristol Corporation Policy and Practice Between the Wars' (1946). This is a fascinating account of interwar council housing and its residents: archive.org/details/jevo...

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Housing Estates: a Study of Bristol Corporation Policy and Practice Between the Wars

Rosamond Jevons and John Madge, Housing Estates: a Study of Bristol Corporation Policy and Practice Between the Wars (University of Bristol, 1946)A study of housing development in Bristol in the perio...

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

7 September 1902 | A Polish Jew, Trajtel Szklarz, was born in Siedlce. He emigrated to France. He arrived at #Auschwitz on 23 July 1942 in a transport of 827 Jews deported from Angers. He perished in the camp on 26 August 1942. --- 📖 Jewish prisoners at KL Auschwitz: bit.ly/3Mqw3dT

Vintage black and white family portrait featuring seven individuals. There are two adults and five children, with one adult sitting in the center holding two babies

Black and white photo of a man, smiling slightly at the camera.

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Municipal Dreams @municipaldreams.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The first social housing in Amsterdam built under the breakthrough 1901 Housing Law was built in Van Beuningenstraat in 1909 by the Rochdale Cooperative Building Association formed by municipal tram workers and named after the Rochdale Pioneers. It was designed by JE van der Pek.

Undated black and white photograph of six-storey corner block courtesy of Amsterdam City Archives

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 07/09/2026

#OtD 7 Sep 2011 700 longshore workers in the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and their supporters blockaded a grain train from entering a non-ILWU terminal, facing down violent police attacks. After a long struggle, they won concessions stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1076...

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 07/09/2026

#OtD 7 Sep 1977 violent clashes took place between workers and bosses' thugs at a machine-tool factory in Mohan Nagar, India. After the thugs opened fire, workers and local residents burned the factory and killed them stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1075...

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Scarlet Ingstad @scarlet-ingstad.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

COMPLETE!!!! Finished the rough draft of the Reclaiming 1776 Project and sent it off to the editors. They're busy combing through my other #AmRev novel at the momment; once we publish that one in Oct, Reclaiming 1776 is next & will be published by January!!! #author #history

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 07/09/2026

#OtD 7 Sep 1893 thousands of striking Yorkshire miners clashed with police in the village of Chidswell. They were fighting against a 25% pay cut by mine bosses. The strikers had been on their way to Westfield colliery, where scabs were still working. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1075...

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Weird Bristol @weirdbristol.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

When the breathtaking Everard building was unveiled in 1901, it was such a sensation that people travelled from miles away and flooded Broad Street to see it. Fights broke out as people jostled for a better view and the police had to regulate the street for two days.

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

7 September 1904 | A Pole, Maksymilian Kudela, was born. A teacher. In #Auschwitz from 17 August 1942. No. 59551 He perished in the camp on 6 September 1942. --- Online lesson "Poles at KL Auschwitz”: lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_2020_06_pol…

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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Perfect description of what's going on.

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 07/09/2026

#OtD 7 Sep 1976 Ian Davies, a gay social worker in London, won reinstatement after being demoted for a "gross indecency" conviction. First 25 colleagues walked out, then 1300 workers said they would strike and the council relented. Learn more in our book: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/be-...

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Weird Bristol @weirdbristol.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This 1982 fountain on Broad Quay is inexplicably a memorial to George V. When it was noted that Bristol had no memorial to the king (who had died nearly 50 years previously) it was hastily cobbled together with remnants from the recently demolished Co-operative Society HQ nearby. 1/2

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Weird Bristol @weirdbristol.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Around Whiteladies Road you may spot these charming metal monkey sculptures. Designed by sculptor Julian Warren in 2016, they may be a playful reference to the day in 1934 when 12 rhesus monkeys escaped the zoo and were sighted all over Clifton for two weeks before they were caught.

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brisradhis.bsky.social @brisradhis.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

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Bristol Radical History Podcast: Interview with Lorraine Fish

YouTube video by Bristol Radical History Group

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brisradhis.bsky.social @brisradhis.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Bristol Radical History Group & Bookhaus are delighted to present Rory Cormac speaking abt Fakers, a history of the governmental disinformation & propaganda unit, the Information Research Department. Mon 7 September (6pm) Bookhaus, BS1 6ZJ Free tickets from: bookhausbristol.com/events/#e159...

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 03/09/2026

#OtD 3 Sep 1791 post-revolutionary France completed its new penal code. It became the first Western European country to decriminalise homosexuality, as it no longer made any mention of prohibitions against sodomy in private. More about the rev here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/en-gb/collec...

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 03/09/2026

#OtD 3 Sep 1934 65,000 textile workers in North Carolina joined the strike of workers in Alabama against pay cuts. Strikers used their cars to drive to working mills and spread the strike. More in this great history of US mass strikes: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/str...

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Weird Bristol @weirdbristol.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT! Just in time for Halloween: “THIRTEEN CHILLING TALES OF BRISTOL HORROR” A creepy compendium of bloodshed, madness and terror - pulled from the darkest corners of our city. More information (including story titles, settings and release date) coming soon.

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brisradhis.bsky.social @brisradhis.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Book launch: Rory Cormac’s Fakers: a top-secret tale of phantoms & forgeries on the disinformation front line (on little known governmental disinformation & propaganda unit, Information Research Department). Mon 7 Sep, 2026 (6pm). Free BRHG event at Bookhaus BS1 6ZJ: www.brh.org.uk/site/events/...

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brisradhis.bsky.social @brisradhis.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Bristol Radical History Group’s forthcoming day of talks on the 90th anniversary of the Spanish Revolution. 24 October ’26 (10am-5pm) at the Quaker Central meeting hall, Champion Sq BS2 9DB. Tie in with Bristol Anarchist Bookfair.

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brisradhis.bsky.social @brisradhis.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Jeremy Clarke & Richard Leonard’s beautiful tribute to activist & Bristol Radical History Group supporter, Hedley Bashforth who sadly died in May: www.brh.org.uk/site/2026/08...

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Weird Bristol @weirdbristol.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The plot of land on which the Shirehampton branch of Co-op now stands was once occupied by a cottage named Chapel House. In 1798 this house was home to the celebrated Romantic poet William Wordsworth, who lived there for two months with his sister Dorothy.

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brisradhis.bsky.social @brisradhis.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Bristol Radical History Group will have a presence at the Bristol Anarchist Bookfair. Date for your diary: 24 October 2026. Watch this space for event details as they are announced at Trinity Centre and other venues in east and central Bristol: bristolanarchistbookfair.uk

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brisradhis.bsky.social @brisradhis.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This is nice… Humanist Society has published a Humanist Heritage Map with Bristol walk: heritage.humanists.uk/wp-content/u...

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brisradhis.bsky.social @brisradhis.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

White Horse Trades Union Council is currently raising funds for a CD album recording of the critically acclaimed "The Innocent" - the tragic story of Thomas Helliker's unjust death told in words and song. They aim to raise £2,000 to cover the costs: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/the-innoce...

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The Innocent - Thomas Helliker in song

We need £2,000 to make an audio recording of "The Innocent" - the tragic story of Thomas Hellliker's unjust death told in words and song

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

5 August 1944 | During the Warsaw Uprising, the 'Zośka' battalion of the Home Army freed some 350 Jews from KL Warschau (so-called Gesiowka camp). The majority of them took part in the uprising, many of them dying during the fighting. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_concen…

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Weird Bristol @weirdbristol.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

This cylindrical stone tower, near to where Pembroke Road meets the Downs, is actually a ventilation shaft, built to prevent the dangerous build up of air pressure in the railway tunnel below.

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 05/08/2026

#OtD 5 Aug 1964 the US began bombing North Vietnam in Operation Pierce Arrow, after "intelligence" reported a North Vietnamese attack on US ships. These reports were false. In our podcast episode, Noam Chomsky explains the geopolitics of the Vietnam war: workingclasshistory.com/2018/10/31/e...

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 05/08/2026

#OtD 5 Aug 1939 56 socialists, including 13 women and girls, known as the 13 Roses, were executed en masse by the right-wing regime of general Francisco Franco. Commemorated here by a shirt made by a workers' co-op supporting grassroots unions in Asia: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/t-s...

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 06/08/2026

#OtD 6 Aug 1945 the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, slaughtering tens of thousands of civilians, despite believing that Japan was about to surrender, which was noted by multiple US officials stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1059...

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𝙾𝙻𝙸𝚅𝙸𝙰 🤍 🇲🇽 𝟺𝚃𝙷 𝚃𝚁𝙰𝙽𝚂𝙵𝙾𝚁𝙼𝙴𝚁 @olivia4t.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

❌ 🆘 A group of females went to the Capitol and brought pictures of all the people that have lost their lives by the hands of #ÏCE. They were immediately put in handcuffs and arrested even though they were there being peaceful exercising their second amendment right to free speech.‼️

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pasttensehistories.bsky.social @pasttensehistories.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Available now from Past Tense: ‘Mutinous Swine’ A Strike of Jailed Conscientious Objectors in Wandsworth Prison, 1918-19 Buy online here: pasttensehistories.bigcartel.com/product/muti...

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brisradhis.bsky.social @brisradhis.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Short Sharp Shock: Militarised detention centres for juveniles and young adults in the 1980s New photo essay on BRHG site by Carlos Guarita & Colin Adamson: www.brh.org.uk/site/article...

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pye 🍊 @pyeraptor.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

bristol, uk! 8th august, 10.30am, queens square counter protest against bristol rises & 10+ other far-right groups who are mobilising from across the country bristol is antifascist, let's run them out of town again 🏴 via @bristolantifascist.bsky.social 🖤

a poster which reads - 'racists out of bristol. counter national far-right mobilisation. 10.30am 8th August queens square. wear a mask, come with friends. dont talk to cops. bristol is antifascist'

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