The Hydra is a community bookshop, coffee shop and meeting place on Old Market in central Bristol. As well as selling good value homemade cake, coffee and teas, we stock ‘radical’ literature on a wide range of issues – politics, history, feminism, animal rights, environmentalism – that it may be difficult to track down in the usual high-street bookshops (if you can find one!) The bookshop provides a meeting space, as well as an outlet for independent non-commercial publishers and authors to make their books and ideas accessible to the wider community. Run by local people as a workers co-operative, the shop grew out of Bristol Radical History Group and similar networks across the city.
Are you looking for a place to hold an event or are you part of a group looking for somewhere to have meetings in Bristol?
One of the major aims of the Hydra is to provide a space which can accommodate and promote public events, meetings and discussion. The room comfortably seats around 35 people and we can also provide a video projector and screen, should you wish to use them. We charge a flat rate of £10 per meeting for regular meetings and £12 per hour for public events.
We also offer PO Boxes for groups at £20 for a year.
If you would like the Hydra to host your event or meeting please give us a call during opening hours or get in touch via email or via the form here. During opening hours call us on 0117 3297401.
Upcoming Events
- 24/02/2012 6:00 pmAccoustic Evening
- 25/02/2012 4:00 pmOld Market March and Police Riot - 80th Anniversary
- 26/02/2012 2:00 pmHistory Walk - Old Market March and Riot - 80th Anniversary
- 26/02/2012 4:00 pmBristol Lesbian and Gay Switchboard - Exhibition
- 27/02/2012 7:00 pm"Roads Protests" - Bristol Radical Film Festival
- 28/02/2012Industrial Workers of the World - meeting
- 29/02/2012 7:30 pm21 hours - an open debate on the New Economics Foundation proposals
- 01/03/2012 7:00 pmBristol Against Arms Trade
- 04/03/2012 2:30 pmClimate Rush - Launch Event
- 07/03/2012 7:00 pmBristol Communist Discussion Group
- 08/03/2012 7:00 pmPUPPET SHOW - Roots of Resistance: 20 years of Earth First! - Otherstory.
- 12/03/2012 6:00 pmClimate Rush Meeting
- 13/03/2012 7:30 pmWeather Underground, film, and talks by ABC
- 22/03/2012Poetry
- 25/03/2012PUPPET SHOW - Escape was on Everyones Mind - the Tale of Jack Sheppard - Otherstory.
- 04/04/2012 6:30 pmBristol Animal Rights Collective
- 12/06/2012private event
- 26/06/2012private event