Bristol Radical History Group

• Things To Do / What's On

  63 Things to do in Bristol in April 2025

  Highlights include a 'dance bath', a bank holiday day party and a charity football match

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• News / Bristol Bus Boycott

  Community celebrates 60th anniversary of civil rights struggle

  60 years ago, Bristol played a central role in making Britain a more equal country

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• Features / hartcliffe

  Hartcliffe’s hidden history explored in new book

  'Hartcliffe Betrayed' by Paul Smith looks at the area from 1943 to 1963

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• News / LGBTQ+ History

  Revealing the ‘hidden’ lives of LGBTQ+ Bristolians across the centuries

  "Reminding us that today's freedoms are recent and owe their origins to a history of struggle"

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• Social Impact / Blue plaque

  ‘Pioneering’ local activist honoured with blue plaque

  Hilda Cashmore was the founder of the Barton Hill Settlement, now the Wellspring Settlement

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• Books / Clifton

  Exploring counterculture in 1960s Clifton through the eyes of Angela Carter

  Investigating Angela Carter’s life and work during her time in Clifton and Bath.

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• Learning / protest

  50 years of student protest at the University of Bristol

  Remembering the students of the University of Bristol who occupied Senate House in 1968

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• Community / Bristol

  Bringing hidden history to life

  Bristol Radical History Group enlivens the city's hidden past

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