Bristol Radical History Group

Since 2006 BRHG have organised over 500 events; staging walks, talks, gigs, recreations, films, and exhibitions. We also have several active research projects, and have published over 70 books and pamphlets.

BRHG is NOT funded by universities, political parties, business, or local government, we rely on our members giving their labour for free.

Bristol Radical History Festival 2025

BRHG are delighted to announce the 7th Bristol Radical History Festival will take place in M Shed (Saturday 26 April) and at the Cube microplex (Sunday 27 April). More details soon....

New publication: The Misérables of Bristol

The parish of Stapleton was once home to soldiers and sailors who were interned in Stapleton Prison as prisoners of war during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. This is the story of the Misérables of Bristol.

New Publication: City of Sanctuary?

Colin Thomas’s short history charts the reception given to those fleeing war and persecution from the seventeenth century to the twenty-first, outlines the stories of organisations that have developed to support these refugees in Bristol and, finally, poses some difficult questions we have to ask.

New Publication: City of Swimmers

City of Swimmers is a verrucas-and-all history of swimming in Bristol, from the eighteenth-century Rennison’s Baths in Montpelier to the beautiful historic Jacob’s Wells and Bristol South baths, and the mostly overlooked pools in more recent leisure centres.