A short history of the People's Free Festival - from Windsor to the Beanfield
Don Aitken, from the Festival Welfare Services, delivers a short history of the People's Free Festival,, from Windsor to Stonehenge, delving inside the police’s mindset prior to and during the Beanfield in 1985, the UK’s drift into becoming a police state, and police inconsistencies during The Beanfield trial in 1990/91. Part of the ‘Operation Solstice’ video archive, most of it unseen, released in time for the 40th Anniversary of The Beanfield on June 1 2025. For more material, search the @counterculture23 channel on Youtube or go to thebeanfield.co.uk. Photo by Alan Lodge 'Tash'
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The Bardney Pop Festival (1972) | BFI National Archive
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Everybody In The Place: An Incomplete History Of Britain 1984-1992 by Jeremy Deller
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Mysteries of Stonehenge Channel 4 - Free Festival Extract
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Hawkwind - On The Right Stuff - (Live at Stonehenge Free Festival, UK, 1984)
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Dreaming in Yellow : The Story of the DiY Sound System
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Hippies vs Police: How the Battle of Beanfield shocked Britain
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Hold Tight Raver (2025)
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Frankfurt is a NIGHTMARE (Germany’s Zombie Hood)
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The Involvement of the Netherlands in the South African War (1899-1902)
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Fusion - Ein Festival kämpft für Freiheit ohne Polizei
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New Age Travellers Documentary
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Stonehenge 1984
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Onkel Pös Carnegie Hall: Die Höhle von Eppendorf | Unsere Geschichte | NDR Doku
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Diverse Reports - New Age Travellers
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Ireland: The Silent Voices
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Helen the Hatt Remembers the Beanfield
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The Rise and Fall of the '80s Free Festival
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