Free BRHG Mayday event: When Bristol Fought Back: Printers, Trams & Trade Unions. To celebrate Mayday & 3 new Bristol Radical History Group publications on Bristol's labour history, we’re bringing the authors together at Tony Benn House BS1 6AY (Wed 1 May, 6.30pm): tinyurl.com/37z42wnz

Mark Steeds (Bristol Radical History Group) will be leading Bristol, Gateway to Empire? walking tour of legacy of slavery & empire, a great weekend opener for Bristol Transformed Festival (18-19 May, Trinity Centre). Meet 6pm outside main entrance @MshedBristol (17 May): tinyurl.com/236mr6wk

Buckingham Chapel, Clifton is one of the earliest Baptist chapels to be built in a Gothic Revival style.
Opened in 1842, it was primarily meant to serve the poorer residents of the area who often felt that their needs and interests were ignored by Clifton’s Anglican churches.
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#OtD 29 Apr 1982 300 mainly South Asian women machinists were on strike in protest at the sacking of two unionists and low wages at Supreme Quilting in Smethwick, UK. After a prolonged dispute, they won union recognition, although not reinstatement stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10071/…

🔵 National Heritage Plaque Survey: Civic Voice and @historicengland have launched a new project aimed at understanding more about the impact of the diverse array of local plaque schemes across England, and the dedicated organisations behind them.

✍️🏼smartsurvey.co.uk/s/NationalPlaq…

#OtD 29 Apr 1916 the leaders of the Irish Easter Rising against British rule surrendered unconditionally at 16 Moore Street in Dublin. 16 leaders of the rising were subsequently executed. The brutal response by Britain spurred support for independence stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10066/…

For years, I've been a keen collector of #BristolBroadsides booklets. Broadsides was a radical publisher in the late-1970s and 1980s. So working on this oral history project for Bristol Ideas was a treat. Now published online: bristolideas.co.uk/read/bristol-b… #BristolHistory

#OtD 28 Apr 1826 weavers protesting for better wages and threatening to damage the new 'powerloom' factories are cleared from the streets by troops in Manchester, England, only a few days after widespread machine-breaking riots across East Lancashire stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9970/w…

This magnificent, gothic structure on the Stourhead Estate in Wiltshire was first erected in #Bristol in 1373 at the crossroads of the Old Town. After being moved to College Green in 1733 it was regarded as an unfashionable eyesore and gifted to the Stourhead Estate by the city.

📷Easton-born photographer Fred Little's work provides a unique, and sometimes vividly reimagined, perspective on how our city looked during the early years of the 20th century.

✍️Full story by Michal Grant: bit.ly/3QdCAak

It’s the last weekend to see Mary Anning with her astonishing ichthyosaur as part of 'Making Waves'. Come and see Mary and Tray before their last day on Tuesday 30 April.
Find out more about the work to conserve her fossil find here. ow.ly/glWL50Rm4mR MaryAnningRocks

When you arrive at Glenside Hospital Museum in #Fisponds you’ll be greeted by a friendly face. Often it’ll be our everyday stalwarts Stella and Anwyl, or as you can see here it might be our lovely once-a-month volunteer Angela.

What you do after you arrive is up to you 💚

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#OnThisDay 2012. Neil Greatrex, former president of the Union of Democratic Mineworkers (UDM) was found guilty of stealing £150,000 from a Lincolnshire nursing home fund.

The charity had been established to help sick and injured mineworkers.

#OtD 26 Apr 1982 the Bradford 12 trial began of 12 Asian youths arrested for preparing to defend their community from fascists. The defence argued PoC had the right to self-defence from racist attacks & all 12 were acquitted. More in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/2019/09/18/e28…

In 1480 William Worcestre measured every Bristol street, including this one, with his feet - here's the map from his calculations: historictownstrust.uk/maps/bristol-i…
HistoricTownsTrust Being Human Festival Naomi Richards

Morning. We're off down the New Bristol Centre on April 27 1995 to go to the pictures. You may remember the place as the ABC Frogmore Street, but for a while anyway it was the Cannon Frogmore Street.

#OtD 26 Apr 1905 Surrealist and anarchist filmmaker, Jean Vigo, was born in Paris. Zero for Conduct (1933), his most famous film, was banned for 'Praise of indiscipline and attacking the prestige of the educational institution' stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9796/j…

Reminder that this May Day event is next Wednesday

Material from collections we look after feature in this brilliant new exhibition at British Library . If you're in London from now until end August have a look - it's really wonderful.

Our latest podcast explores Natasha Walter's family memoir Before the Light Fades.

Marybeth Hamilton and Andrew Whitehead met with Natasha to discuss what these stories tell us about resistance, activism and solidarity.

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historyworkshop.org.uk/podcast/before…