St Werburgh’s Church on Mina Road once stood on Corn Street. As its parish was so small, in 1877 it was dismantled and reconstructed (not entirely identically) miles away. Around 100 coffins were also moved from the site and reinterred in Greenbank Cemetery.

Confirmed for Bristol Radical History Festival (20-21 Apr @MShedBristol) Rosemary L Caldicott: “The Life and Death of Hannah Wiltshire: Bedminster Union Workhouse and Victorian social attitudes to Epilepsy”: tinyurl.com/2mscdcf9#BRHF2…

Confirmed for Bristol Radical History Festival (20-21 Apr @MShedBristol) Exhibition: “Voices of the Bristol Crisis Service for Women”: tinyurl.com/4jn4f7dc
#BRHF2024

Reminder: This Saturday😊

Pensions are affordable.
The NHS is affordable.
The Post Office is affordable.
Schools are affordable.

Don't let them say otherwise.

The Bathursts are up to their tricks again sneaking in the delayed gate charges on a Monday when they think no one will be looking... join the local group and exercise yr right to protest Right to Roam #righttoroam #Cirencester #Cotswolds #Gloucestershire

Kurt Vonnegut died on this day in 2007.

'Thus did a handful of rapacious citizens come to control all that was worth controlling in America. Thus was the savage and stupid and entirely inappropriate and unnecessary and humorless American class system created.'

Brian Clough and Jack Charlton were two working-class legends who stood up to the fascists in the 1970s and were in solidarity with mining communities under attack in the 1980s.

A thread 🧵

#Defiance #MinersStrike

All Cary Grant's shirts were specially made with a high collar to disguise his one imperfection: a thick neck.
Hear his story on the Bristol streets he loved
showofstrength.org.uk/productions/ra…
Weird Bristol Cary Grant Festival Visit Bristol

While most of us would view a stay in a mental health institution as an inconvenient and unpleasant limit to our liberty, it was not the same for all in the 19th century.

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Thread - final episode of brilliant #Defiance series on Channel 4 is very moving, upsetting & powerful.
It focuses firstly on the horrific murder in Walthamstow in 1981, of Mrs Parveen Khan & her 3 children, killed by persons unknown. Firefighters were sure this was arson &

On 10th April 1848 100,000 Chartists rallied in Kennington for the vote. A march to Parliament across Blackfriars Bridge was blocked by troops.A strategic mistake? Should they have met North of the Thames instead

kmflett.wordpress.com/2023/04/10/10t… via keith flett

Come for an online 'walk' around medieval Bristol! Join us for our latest FREE Regional History talk with Professor Helen Fulton and Dr Evan Jones from the University of Bristol 18 April 2024 , 6.30pm—8pm bristolmuseums.org.uk/m-shed/whats-o…

Confirmed for Bristol Radical History Festival (20 Apr @MshedBristol) KIPTIK “Bristol & the Zapatistas”: brh.org.uk/site/events/br… #BRHF2024

Confirmed for Bristol Radical History Festival (20-21 Apr @MShedBristol) Lois Bibbings, Jeremy Clarke, Nick Smith & Tony Wood: “History in Schools”: tinyurl.com/5h2c45sv #BRHF2024
#Education

Opening the Archives: hdfst.uk/e106631

“Take notice, That England is not a Free People, till the Poor that have no Land, have a free allowance to dig and labour the Commons, and so live as Comfortably as the Landlords that live in their Inclosures.'

Gerrard Winstanley (1649)

Our very first show was on this ship in 1986...

Another classic 1936 poster. 'Aixafem el feixisme' (Let’s crush fascism) by Pere Català i Pic shows an espardenya (Cat) alpargata (Span), crushing a swastika on a wet, cobbled street of Barcelona, symbolising both fight by the working class against fascism and Catalan identity.

These engines in the 1887 built Underfall Power House were installed in 1907 to replace the original steam powered ones. A vast web of hydraulic pipes wove around #Bristol Harbour and this powerhouse forced dock-water pressure through them to control cranes, bridges and locks.