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The Shrewsbury 24 Campaign

By Randell Brantley
transparent fiddle The Shrewsbury 24 Campaign
This year marks the 40th anniversary since the national builders strike in 1972. Five months after the strike had ended 24 pickets who had visited building sites in Shrewsbury were arrested and charged with over 242 offences between them. They included unlawful assembly, affray, intimidation, criminal damage and assault. Six of the pickets were received custodial sentences. Des Warren, Eric (Ricky) Tomlinson and John McKinsie Jones were sentenced to three years, two years and nine months of […]
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From the Great Plague to the Plague of Women: Purity, Misogyny and Female Enclosure

By Randell Brantley
transparent fiddle From the Great Plague to the Plague of Women: Purity, Misogyny and Female Enclosure
Steve Higginson will interpret the re-birth of misogyny by looking at the period of the Great Plague, 1345 onwards, and the great moralising discourse that swept across Europe post plaque. Located within this discourse of purity, women were viewed as both cause and effect of the plague, and were to be "enclosed" accordingly within the domestic sphere. The purity campaign against women was attributable to a re-reading of the Old Testament plus a resurgance of interest in Aristotlian ethics. Steve […]
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Hydra Videos

By Randell Brantley
transparent fiddle Hydra Videos
The video below is of the talk that Ian Bone gave a opening of Hydra Books on 26th November. Below that is a video of the talk by Steve Higginson from the following day. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBhQ-YwcTYg&feature=related
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John Desmond Audio

By Randell Brantley
transparent fiddle John Desmond Audio
Below is more audio from the week of talks to mark the opening of Hydra Books at 34 Old Market. Lessons from the Tredegar Medical Aid Society Speaker: John Desmond The Tredegar Medical Aid Society was founded in Tredegar in South Wales in 1890. In return for a contribution from its members it supplied free health care. This society contributed the model which established the British National Health Service The provenance of John’s talk is a series of events which began last year. After […]
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Hydra Books Opening Audio

By Randell Brantley
transparent fiddle Hydra Books Opening Audio
Hydra books opened with a talk by Ian Bone on Saturday. Around 70 people turned up to listen to the talk and smell the still wet paint. Also, on Scouse Sunday Steve Higginson gave a talk about the 1911 dockers strike in Liverpool and Sheila Coleman from the Hillsborough Justice Campaign gave an update on the parliamentary debate, the Hillsborough Panel and the BBC's freedom of information request. Below you can find audio of all of these talks. Ian Bone - 1919 – Year of Revolution' Maria […]
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Two Recent Articles

By Randell Brantley
transparent fiddle Two Recent Articles
Two articles have been recently added to the archive: Forest Riots And Are You Wearing That T-Shirt - Ian Wright (Sept 2011) - News from The Forest (pdf). Why have you come to Mourmansk? - G. Tchitcherineand and N. Lenin (October 2011) - A poster handed out to British troops how had been landed at Mourmansk towards the end of WWI.
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The Newport Chartist Convention 2011

By Randell Brantley
transparent fiddle The Newport Chartist Convention 2011
Saturday 5 November - 11.00am startSt. Mary’s Institute, Stow Hill, NP20 1JJ A Newport surgeon (Roger Morgan, re-enactor) will report on the injuries sustained in Newport on the morning of November 4th, 1839 and demonstrate how the wounded were treated. And there will be ‘time travelling’ lecturers with ‘magic lantern slides’: Karin Molson, on behalf of Shire Hall ‘Campaign’ Project, will show DVDs made with young people involved in ’active citizenshi’ that has been inspired by the Chartist […]
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Bible Debate Audio

By Randell Brantley
transparent fiddle Bible Debate Audio
A audio file from The Bible: The most dangerous book in the world? is now available. Click below to hear it.
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Quaker Pamphlet

By Randell Brantley
transparent fiddle Quaker Pamphlet
At last weekend's Bristol Anarchist Bookfair we launched the latest Bristol Radical Pamphleteer publication entitled The Peculiar History Of The Sect Known As The Quakers by Jim McNeill. Who were the Quakers? Why were they persecuted? Why did they stop being radical? How did some of Bristol’s Quakers become so rich? From James Naylor’s blasphemous ride down Corn Street to William Penn being given Pennsylvania and Abraham Darby laying the foundations of the Industrial Revolution. This is the […]
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