Latest Past Events

TRACES – Voices of the Second Generation

Redland Quaker Meeting House 126 Hampton Road , Bristol

This fifty-minute documentary film explores the Holocaust’s impact on the children of survivors, including recorded interviews. They share their families’ true stories and explore the complexities of having Holocaust survivors as parents. It is produced by Tracey Goldring who is founder of Searching for Identity, an organisation that works with second and third generation of … Continue reading TRACES – Voices of the Second Generation

£5

Escape from Pretoria

Scott Cinema, Bristol Northumbria Drive, Henleaze, Bristol

Australia, South Africa, UK 2020, 106 mins, English Director Francis Annan, featuring Daniel Radcliffe, Daniel Webber, Ian Hart Based on the real-life prison break of two political captives, this is a race-against-time thriller set in the tumultuous apartheid days of South Africa in the late 1970s.  Two white South Africans, Tim Jenkin and Stephen Lee, are … Continue reading Escape from Pretoria

Licoricia of Winchester: an exception who proves the rule?

Redland Quaker Meeting House 126 Hampton Road , Bristol

The remarkable medieval moneylender, Licoricia of Winchester rose from obscure beginnings to become the personal banker to Henry III and the richest Jewish woman in 13th century England.  Twice married, twice widowed and the mother of four sons, she was a self-made woman in a man-made world.  But in an age of political turmoil and … Continue reading Licoricia of Winchester: an exception who proves the rule?

£5

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