Bristol Radical History Festival - Saturday 14th May, 2022 - M Shed - 10.00am-4.30pm

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Bristol Radical History Festival - Saturday 14th May, 2022 - M Shed - 10.00am-4.30pm

The programme for our annual event at M Shed is now complete. This year's festival has two main themes:

• State surveillance of labour and social movements (1792 to now)
• Hidden histories of post-war Britain (1945-51)

We have a great line up of speakers including:

• Colin Prescod (Chair of the Institute of Race Relations) on hidden histories of the Windrush generation
• Winston Trew on state surveillance of the Black Power movement in the 1960s/70s
• Dr Lizzie Seal (Sussex University) on the abolition of the death penalty
• Dr Nick Hiley on surveillance in the period of WW1 and the founding of MI5
• Professor Steve Poole (UWE) on state suppression of radical politics in Bristol (1792-1820)
• Eveline Lubbers (Undercover Research Group), Kevin Blowe (Network for Police Monitoring) and Emily Apple (activist & journalist) on the Spycops scandal and inquiry
• Sue Tate on the exhibition Posters from the Women's Liberation Movement (1972-2000)
• Dr Aled Eurig (Cardiff University) on the activity of intelligence agencies in South Wales during WW1
• Eugene Byrne (Bristol Times) on the post-war WWII squatting movement in Bristol

It's not just going to be talks, discussions and workshops. Once again we will have history walks, films, singing, an exhibition, stalls with books and merchandise. And not to be missed – the Feminist Archive South's Politics and Protest: Posters from the Women's Liberation Movement exhibition. Full details of the programme are here. The Facebook events page link is here. Please share and invite FB friends. This is a free event, and all are welcome!

As a warm up why not come on a performative history walk in Stroud on Saturday.....

Stroud history walk: John Thelwall – 'The most dangerous man in England' - Sat 7th May, 2022 - 1.00pm - Meet at the Lockkeeper's Cafe, Walbridge, Stroud, GL5 3JS (2 min walk from Stroud Train Station)
In the summer of 1797, Citizen John left the shadow of government spies in London to visit Samuel Coleridge in Nether Stowey and then stay in the Stroud area. We recreate Citizen John's adventures with a performative walk around Stroud. More details here.

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[Elpenor]

Shame that I’m in Bristol tomorrow not the week after or would have been interested to take a look