Breviary Stuff

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"‘heady brew of ideas’ and complex interrelationships of organisations are forensically unravelled to provide an account that has all the clarity of style and story-telling ability of E. P. Thompson’s classic Making of the English Working Class", Alan Brooke, The Local Historian

Follow & share the 5th Bristol Radical History Festival on FB too: tinyurl.com/35eab9fh #BRHF2023

@ecosocialism1 Thomas Spence is far from forgotten at Breviary Stuff: "Thomas Spence: The Poor Man’s Revolutionary" breviarystuff.org.uk/thomas-spence-…, "The People's Farm" by Malcolm Chase breviarystuff.org.uk/malcolm-chase-…, and David Worrall's "Radical Culture" breviarystuff.org.uk/david-worrall-…

A forgotten revolutionary: Thomas Spence on saving the commons climateandcapitalism.com/2022/06/04/a-f… via @ecosocialism1

Published today: "Friends of the Revolution: The British Radical Community in Early Republican Paris 1792-1794" by Rachel Rogers. Examines the often overlooked British and Irish emigrant community in revolutionary Paris. breviarystuff.org.uk/rachel-rogers-…

Latvian bestseller updated & in English! "A Towering Flame: The Life & Times of the Elusive Latvian Anarchist Peter the Painter". Order online from @BreviaryStuff breviarystuff.org.uk/philip-ruff-a-… Now, also an exhibition (and a T-shirt too!) @Talsu_muzejs #Latvia

Rachel Rogers, "Friends of the Revolution" now in print. Mary Wollstonecraft, Helen Maria Williams, La Société des Amis des Droits de l’Homme, Sampson Perry, Robert Merry, and more accounts of revolutionary Paris. breviarystuff.org.uk/rachel-rogers-… At a special price for a limited time.

Radical Lambeth 1978-1991 by @Simon_P_Hannah is available now: breviarystuff.org.uk/simon-hannah-r… Today's "woke left" were the "loony left" in the tory's 1980s culture war.

Radical Lambeth 1978-1991 by @Simon_P_Hannah, available now, breviarystuff.org.uk/simon-hannah-r… The same issues that led to an explosion of struggles in the 1980s will be familiar to many today.

Radical Lambeth 1978-1991 by Simon Hannah @Simon_P_Hannah. Pre-order your copy, saving £2, post-free in the UK. breviarystuff.org.uk/simon-hannah-r… Separates fact from fiction about the radical struggles in 1980s Lambeth, based on first-hand accounts of those involved.

Yet another new publication available very soon: God's Beautiful Sunshine: The 1921 Miners’ Lockout in the Forest of Dean. More excellent primary research: @BrisRadHis is on fire at the moment!

BREAKING: The statue of #EdwardColston, which was pulled down during a #BlackLivesMatter protest in #Bristol at the weekend, has been recovered. @BristolCouncil say it will be stored in a “secure location” before being placed in a museum.

This is the moment that Colston's statue was pushed into Bristol's docks. 📽️by Ben Wray.

A defining image of a new generation of activism in the U.K. #blacklivesmatter twitter.com/MomentumBristo…

I knew it would end up in Bristol dock...

The Colston statue of a slaveholder bites the dust in Bristol....

#blacklivesmatter protesters in Bristol pull down statue of slave trader Edward Colston