Bristol Festival of Ideas 2017: Reflections on 100 years of change

Revolution, radicalism and rebellion dominate this year, as writers, journalists and academics look back on a century of political upheaval
" Bristol Festival of Ideas 2017

It's impossible to ignore the atmosphere of change and rebellion in 2017. Just months ago, Britain voted for Brexit and America for Donald Trump. We'll be exploring the implications of both this year - and for many years to come.

A century on from the Russian Revolution, the festival hall will explore why it happened and what it meant. We also look at revolution more generally - in Latin America and Cuba; within the Labour government of Clement Attlee following the second world war; and through our 2017 Coleridge Lectures, a series inspired by Samuel Taylor Coleridge's radical Bristol lectures of 1795.