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Witch Hunting

Torturing of jews accused by the inquisition as heretics and perpetrators of black magic.

Protestants and jews accused by the inquisition heresy and witchcraft. From a contemporary woodcut. Nuremberg, 1493.

Two dominican monks burned at the stake by order of the inquisition for allegedly signing pacts with the devil. From the Histoire Véritable de Quatre lacopins. Geneva ,1549.

Mass execution of citizens of Haalem as disciples of the devil under Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alba, after the conquest of Haalem in 1753.

Witches

The devil making love to a witch

Demons riding to the sabbath

Witch 'inoculating' a man by shooting a twig through his foot

Scorcerers exchanging the bible for a book of black magic.

Pirates

Anne Bonny; from Histories der Engelsche Zee-Roovers, 1725.

Ann Mills; from Portraits, Memories, and Characters of Remarkable Persons from the Revolution of 1688 to the End of the Reign of King George II, James Caufield, 1820.

Captain Bartholomew and eleven captured merchant vessels off the coast of West Africa. From Captain Charles Johnson's A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pyrates, 1724.

Mary Read; from Histories der Engelsche Zee-Roovers, 1725.

Pictures of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, Abolitionists and Maroon Rebels

Toussaint L'Ouverture

Enslaved Africans in Hold of Slave Ship, 1827

Death of Capt. Ferrer, the Captain of the Amistad, July, 1839.**

Slaves being moved to the coast of Africa destined for St. Domingue, 1786.

Hazard & Nayler

James Nayler's ride up Corn Street.

James Nayler

James Nayler From Bristol Past and Present Vol III by J. F. Nicholls and John Taylor 1882.

James Nayler being whipped From Bristol Past and Present Vol III by J. F. Nicholls and John Taylor 1882.

Bristol 1831: The Queens Square Uprising

The Bishop's Palace after the 1831 uprising.

The Burning of the Mansion House, Queen Square, 1831, W. J. Müller

The Burning of the Bishop's Palace, 1831, W. J. Müller

Garnett Vrs. Churchill

Winston Churchill on the phone.

Winston and his molty minders.

Churchill goes down.

Rachel Hewitt

By Rachel Hewitt

Pike War. 2008. Oil stick on canvas.

Peasants Revolt. 2008. Charcoal on paper.

1831 Bristol Jamaica Riots. 2007. Oil on canvas.

The Tempest Witches. 2007. Oil on canvas.

Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival 2009

Roger in a tent.

Zoey with the alarm clock piñata.

Kids hitting the alarm clock piñata.