Bristol & The Revolutionary Atlantic
A Spot in Time: The Opposition between Terror and the Commons in the Perspective of the Atlantic Revolutions - Peter Linebaugh Was the coincidence on 2 April 1792 in the attempts to abolish the African...
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Disney's adaptation of Robert Louis Stephenson's classic tale. Newton, in splendid form, arguably gives the best big screen characterisation of literature's most famous unidexter. Join such legends as...
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Pirates, Piracy & Smuggling
The Real Pirates Of The Caribbean - Marcus Rediker Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh (USA) and the author of The Many Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners and the Hidden History...
View ArticleSalty Tales
Join Jess Paul and Martin Maudsley for stories about smugglers and pirates. AAAARRR! Kids (and adults) are weclome to come in fancy dress. Please can adults accompany children as this is event is not a...
View ArticlePirate Boat Trip
Tour the pirate landmarks of Bristol Harbour in the company of historian Mark Steeds and the cider-fuelled Surfin' Turnips. Each tour lasts one hour. The post Pirate Boat Trip appeared first on Bristol...
View ArticleNo Quarter
No Quarter is an excellent zine from Calgary, Canada that explores radical history and its connections to a radical present from an anarchist perspective and from outside the academy. It is an unusual...
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BRHW 2007 - Pirates At The Seven Stars
Aboard the pirate boat trip with The Surfin' Turnips Aaaaarrrr. Don't fancy yours much Aaaaarrrr. Don't fancy yours much The Surfin' Turnips At The Seven Stars. More 'nips. Shiver me timbers...
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Pirates
Anne Bonny; from Histories der Engelsche Zee-Roovers, 1725. Anne Bonny & Mary Read; from Captain Charles Johnson's A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pyrates,...
View ArticleGideon Defoe & Peter Lord Pirates! Adventures with scientists...and historians!
At The MShed Pirates and adventurers take over the Harbourside to tell us who they were, what they did and why. The author and the film-maker arrive by ship to the MShed to show us how they turned a...
View ArticleUWE History Department vs Long John Silver & Bristol Radical History Group:...
Following our Sunday extravaganza with Gideon Defoe and Aardman, Mark Steeds (Long John Silver Trust) and members of Bristol Radical History Group debate with the academics to thrash out the reality...
View ArticleBristol Local History Bookfair 2014
Booksellers will include Bristol Books, Bygone Bristol, Redcliffe Press, the South Gloucestershire Mines Research Group and Tangent Books, several independent authors – and more. 10am-1pm Family...
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