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Witch Hunting

Torturing of jews accused by the inquisition as heretics and perpetrators of black magic.
Hanging of a farm woman declared by the inquisition to be possessed by demons. From Rappresentatione della passione. Florence, 1520.
The torture of the inhabitants of Antwerp by Spanish troops under Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alba, after the conquest of the city in 1756.
Newsletter about the infernal deeds and the execution of the witch Anna Eberlehrin. Printed by Elias Wellhöffe, "Briefmaler" at Ausburg, 1669.
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Subjects: Women

Tags: witches

Posted: 05/06/2012 Modified: 30/09/2025

Witches

The devil making love to a witch
Worlock riding to the witches sabbeth.
Witches concocting an ointment to be used for flying to the sabbath. By Hans Baldung. Strassburg, 1514.
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Subjects: Women

Tags: witches

Posted: 05/06/2012 Modified: 30/09/2025

Ogden’s Cigarette Cards – Smugglers & Smuggling, 1932

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Subjects: Social Crime

Tags: smuggling

Posted: 05/06/2012 Modified: 30/09/2025

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.
Mary Read; from Histories der Engelsche Zee-Roovers, 1725.
Ned Low; Captain Charles Johnson's A General History of the Lives and Adventures of the Most Famous Highwaymen, Murderes, Street Robbers &c., 1734.
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Subjects: Pirates

Posted: 05/06/2012 Modified: 10/06/2012

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

Toussaint L'Ouverture
Slave Market on the Kambia River, Coast of Africa. A woodcut from an oil painting from 1840.
"A slave revolt is terrible because one cannot fire on them, since each man is worth at least 1,000 francs", 1883, Albert Laporte.
An imagined picture of a slave auction used as propaganda before the American Civil War.
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Subjects: Colonialism, Slavery & Resistance

Posted: 05/06/2012 Modified: 30/09/2025

Hazard & Nayler

Widow Kelly* and others barricading the Frome Gate Against Prince Ruppert at the Siege of Bristol 1643. From Bristol Past and Present Vol III by J. F. Nicholls and John Taylor 1882.
Mistress Dorothy Hazard and the Women of Bristol Defending The Frome Gate 1643.
James Nayler
James Nayler From Bristol Past and Present Vol III by J. F. Nicholls and John Taylor 1882.
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Subjects: Radical Bristol, Religion

Tags: Dorothy Hazzard, James Nayler

Posted: 05/06/2012 Modified: 24/09/2025

Bristol 1831: The Queens Square Uprising

The Bishop's Palace after the 1831 uprising.
Queen Square Bristol from North West Corner, 1827, T. L. Rowbotham
Queen Square on the Night of 30 October 1831, 1831, W. J. Müller
A postcard of the riots. Courtesy of Bristol Central Reference Library refinfo@bristol.gov.uk
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Subjects: Democracy & Suffrage, Radical Bristol, Riots & Disturbances

Tags: 1831, Queen Square

Posted: 05/06/2012 Modified: 24/09/2025

Garnett Vrs. Churchill

Winston and his molty minders.
The scuffle continues.
Garnett is dragged off.
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Subjects: Democracy & Suffrage, Women

Tags: suffragettes, Theresa Garnett

Posted: 05/06/2012 Modified: 24/09/2025

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.
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Subjects: Uncategorized

Posted: 05/06/2012 Modified: 24/09/2025

Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival 2009

Roger wearing a Liberty Cap.
The happy pamphleteers.
Hanging on every word.
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Subjects: Uncategorized

Tags: Tolpuddle, Tolpuddle Martyrs

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