Tolpuddle Talks

Next weekend (16th-18th July) Bristol Radical History Group will be at Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival and will present a series of short punchy talks about booze. How much of a metaphour the word ‘punchy’ turns out to be rathe rdepends on how much we have had to drink. This list of talks is thus:

• Short history of brewing in Britain
• Pre-enclosure home brew demo
• Beer shops, Captain Swing and the Hanging at Kenn
• Cider Riots
• Sugar, Tobacco, Capitalism and Conservative Clubs
• ‘From the Pledge to Straight Edge’
• Smuggling and alehouses, taverns and inns
• Rise of breweries, negative impact on Forest of Dean
• Gin Lane/Beer St. and Hogarth’s satire
• Peoples pubs