Steve Poole is Professor of History and Heritage at UWE, Bristol and Director of the University’s Regional History Centre. He has published widely on social movements, political protest and criminality in England in the long eighteenth century c1715-1832 and has a particular interest in histories of South West England ‘from below’. His most recent book, co-written with Nick Rogers, is Bristol From Below: Law, Authority and Protest in a Georgian City (Boydell, 2017).
Appeared at:
- ‘A Fitting Receptacle for the Depraved and Abandoned’: Rethinking Punishment at Bristol’s New Gaol, 1816-1831
- Choose your own adventure: digital play and history from below
- The Fight For Reform: RIOT1831! guided walk
- The 1831 reform riots in the southwest – display
- The 1831 Bristol reform riot – a view from the southbank
- ‘To persecute a man for opinion is become so fashionable’: surveillance and the suppression of radical politics in Bristol, 1792-1820
- (Repeat) Talk on Regional Radical Press in Britain 1968-88 exhibition
- Talk on Regional Radical Press in Britain 1968-88 exhibition
- Regional Radical Press in Britain 1968-88 exhibition
- The BRH Summer Party On Brandon Hill
- Radical Bristol: 1790s
- Kings, Commoners & Corporations
- English Republicanism
- Thomas Spence The Forgotten Revolutionary
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