The Bristol Radical History Group
Election Special 2010
Mills & Bone
Subverting Democracy
Date: Monday 12th April 2010
Venue: The Stag & Hounds, 74 Old Market Street, BS2 0EJ
Time: 7:30pm
Price: Donation
Speakers: Steve Mills, Ian Bone.
Ian Bone relates his experiences of contemporary interventions into the electoral process including The Alarm the Swansea based forerunner of The Bristolian, the legendary anarchist tabloid Class War and the Vote Nobody campaign of 2001.
Millsy will briefly analyse democracy is this country for the working classes, and describe what it means for us now. How democratic are society, our political parties, and our organisations?
These two renowned local troublemakers will also provide their own searing critique of the upcoming General Election.
Local historian and researcher of the Kingswood Colliers and the Cock Road Gang. He is a West Ham United fan and will therefore receive preferential treatment. Author of the BRHG pamphlet A Barbarous And Ungovernable People - A Short History Of The Miners Of The Kingswood Forest.
Ian Bone is the erstwhile editor of The Bristolian and was once called "the most dangerous man in Britain". His memoirs, Bash The Rich were published in October 2006.
