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	Battle of the Beanfield, police attack a Stonehenge peace convoy, Wiltshire, Saturday June 1st 1985
		Battle of the Beanfield, police attack a Stonehenge peace convoy, Wiltshire, Saturday June 1st 1985
		Excerpt from The Battle of the Beanfield, edited by Andy Worthington.
		Battle of the Beanfield is edited by Andy Worthington and published by Enabler Publications © 2005.
	www.urban75.com /Action/beanfield.html (1882 words)

	Beanfield (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The battle then continued and, one by one, all the vehicles were taken away.
		Thereafter, that being almost the end of the battle, most of the people were taken to the roundabout and put into buses and, by all accounts, taken to prisons and police stations the breadth of southern England.
		Many of the vehicles were open, and the police were able to just walk in and inspect the contents, but some of the vehicles had been left shut, or locked, and some of the police methods of gaining entry to those vehicles were unorthodox, to put it mildly.
	hometown.aol.com /adearling/enabler/Beanfield.htm (4788 words)

	Culture Shop - Operation Solstice: The Battle of the Beanfield (Film/Video) by Neil Goodwin
		In an interview conducted in 1991 for Channel 4's Critical Eye programme OPERATION SOLSTICE, Sabido confirmed that "some of the nastier, more controversial shots that were taken of the Battle of the Beanfield, like the woman being dragged out by her hair", had "disappeared" from the ITN library.
		In the years prior to the Beanfield many travellers took part in protests against the introduction of cruise missile bases onto common land.
		The Beanfield was the first in a series of large-scale police operations, caried out over the Solstice period, designed to make the travelling lifestyle untennable.
	www.cultureshop.org /details.php?code=OPSOL (1701 words)

	Andy Worthington
		Also see below for details of the Battle of the Beanfield 21st anniversary reunion in Glastonbury on Thursday 1st June 2006.
		Battle of the Beanfield 21st anniversary reunion, Glastonbury, June 1st 2006
		In the meantime, Danner’s collection of articles and supporting documentation is a grimly compelling portrait of the moral and ethical costs of the first three years of the ‘Global War on Terror’.
	www.andyworthington.co.uk (1512 words)

	Battle of the Beanfield - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Battle of the Beanfield was an incident in 1985 when Wiltshire Police prevented a convoy of several hundred new age travellers from setting up the fourteenth Stonehenge free festival in Wiltshire, England.
		This gave the convoy a couple of minutes' notice that an attack was imminent, and many tried to escape in their vehicles, crossing over into the adjacent beanfield, but travelling over rough field terrain their vehicles were so slow that they were all quickly overtaken by policemen on foot.
		Lyrics to 'Battle of the Beanfield' by The Levellers
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_the_Beanfield (1497 words)

	UK Indymedia - Anniversary of the 'Battle of the Beanfield': an exhibition 'Operation Solstice' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Anniversary of the 'Battle of the Beanfield': an exhibition 'Operation Solstice'
		One unusual eye-witness to the Beanfield nightmare was the Earl of Cardigan, secretary of the Marlborough Conservative Association and manager of Savernake Forest (on behalf of his father the Marquis of Ailesbury).
		If the coercive policing used during the miners strike was a violent introduction to Thatcher's mal-intention towards union activity, the Battle of the Beanfield was a similarly severe introduction to a new era of intolerance of Travellers.
	www.indymedia.org.uk /en/2005/04/308800.html (2835 words)

	Timothy Mason ; Reading the Riots - New Age Travellers and the Arlies of the Night
		This confrontation was quickly named 'The Battle of the Beanfield', an evocative title which puts us quite naturally on the path leading back to the 16th Century villagers whose night-time battles against evil have been brought to our notice by Carlo Ginzburg.
		The 'battle' itself took place on Saturday ; by the time the Monday morning papers were published, the event was no longer of first importance, for the riot at Heysel, which put the whole world of football in disarray, had become the main event of the moment.
		Motorists who saw the battle claimed that police were showered with petrol bombs, stones and missiles fired by catapults.
	www.timothyjpmason.com /WebPages/Publications/riots.htm (5026 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Revisiting Britain's biggest free festival
		The Battle of the Beanfield was seven miles from the stones
		But the Battle of the Beanfield - as it quickly became known - happened outside the jurisdiction of the injunction, and was indicative of a harder line being adopted at the highest level of government against the growing number of hippies spending their summers on the free festival circuit.
		But rather than putting an end to the politicisation of the Peace Convoy, the Battle of the Beanfield pushed a significant number of free festival veterans further towards the activism of the emerging anti-globalisation and road protest movements.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/entertainment/3662921.stm (1128 words)

	Battle of the Beanfield by The Levellers guitar tab @ XGuitar.com
		Battle of the Beanfield by The Levellers guitar tab @ XGuitar.com
		XGuitar.com : The Levellers : Levelling the Land : Battle of the Beanfield guitar tab
		Subject: Levellers - Battle of the Beanfield From: cs5133@ccub.wlv.ac.uk (Simon Phillips) Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1993 18:51:03 +0100 (BST) To: jamesb@animal-farm.nevada.edu X-Mailer: fastmail [version 2.4 PL22] Here is Battle of the Beanfield..
	www.xguitar.com /guitar-tabs/levellers/levelling_the_land/battle_of_the_beanfield.txt (434 words)

	The Megalithic Portal and Megalith Map: Battle of the Beanfield 20th anniversary events
		On the opening night of the touring exhibition of photos of the Stonehenge festivals, the Beanfield, and the years of exclusion (which runs until 30 June), Andy will be showing the 1991 Beanfield documentary ‘Operation Solstice’, and talking about ‘The legacy of the Beanfield.’ Entry £2.
		Re: The Battle of the Beanfield by Thorgrim on Thursday, 09 June 2005
		Re: The Battle of the Beanfield by Andy B on Thursday, 09 June 2005
	www.megalithic.co.uk /article.php?sid=2146412190 (2753 words)

	Culture Shop - Battle of the Beanfield, The (Book) by Andy Worthington
		That event has gone down in history as ‘The Battle of the Beanfield’.
		These accounts cut through the myths, misconceptions and propaganda that have built up around ‘The Battle of the Beanfield’ to present a detailed picture of what actually did happen.
		Also included are many previously unseen photos, a description of the making of the documentary ‘Operation Solstice’, and chapters which set the events of the Beanfield in context.
	www.cultureshop.org /details.php?code=BOTB (204 words)

	:: SchNEWS 500 - rabble rousing, party and protest guide, battle of the beanfield, alternative media, local newsletters
		BATTLE Of The BEANFIELD - 20 YEARS ON June 1st was the 20th anniversary of the Battle of the Beanfield, a notoriously brutal one-sided confrontation between 450 unarmed travellers – including many women and children – and a quasi-military police force of over 1,300 police and MoD.
		By the end of the day, 537 people had been arrested – 420 at the Beanfield, and most of the rest at Stonehenge itself, where a separate gathering was also broken up.
		At the Beanfield, the remaining vehicles were systematically looted and smashed.
	www.schnews.org.uk /archive/news500.htm (4578 words)

	Observer \| Twenty years after, mystery still clouds Battle of the Beanfield
		A few hours later the convoy had been ambushed by more than 1,300 police officers; dozens of Travellers were injured, all but a handful were arrested, and every one of their vehicles was destroyed.
		When some of those remaining tried to get away, driving their vehicles through the beanfield, the police threw anything they could lay their hands on - fire extinguishers, stones, shields and truncheons - at them in order to bring them to a halt.
		'The Battle of the Beanfield remains a fl day for British justice and civil liberties,' says Andy Worthington, whose book on the event is published this week.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,5213835-102285,00.html (652 words)

	Virtual Festivals Message Boards > Battle Of The Bean Field
		Jun 1 2005, 02:00 PM Here's a couple of images from the Battle of the Beanfield, taken from a post by "Tash" at Indymedia.
		BATTLE Of The BEANFIELD - 20 YEARS ON June 1st was the 20th anniversary of the Battle of the Beanfield,
		Jun 26 2005, 02:50 PM We should all pause to remember The Battle Of The Bean Field and the sufferings of all the victims of Thatcher's National Riot Police during the Struggles of the 1980's.
	forums.virtualfestivals.com /forums/lofiversion/index.php/t55455.html (1953 words)

	Comments on: The Battle of the Beanfield
		I am interested to talk to people who were at the Beanfield for the purpose of my disertation.
		Having read Andy Worhtingtons books on the Beanfield and Stonehenge, I have become deeply interested in the whole situation and would appreciate it if anyone could take the time to tell me/write info on travelling experiences.
		I was in the 4th vehicle in the convoy, it had been purchased a few days before by a man from the peace convoy by the name of Nigel.
	www.nickfitz.co.uk /2005/06/01/the-battle-of-the-beanfield/feed (702 words)

	Battle of Beanfield 20 years on (1st june)
		Anniversary of the ‘Battle of the Beanfield’ 1st June 1985
		At a meeting of the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO), in early 1985, it was resolved to obtain a High Court Injunction preventing the annual gathering at Stonehenge.
		This was the device to be used to justify the attack at the “Battle of the Beanfield” on the 1st June in Hampshire.
	guerrillanews.com /threads/4299/Battle_of_Beanfield_20_years_on_1st_... (202 words)

	Battle Of The Beanfield Lyrics - by LEVELLERS : Lyrics And Songs
		You are viewing lyrics of Battle Of The Beanfield by LEVELLERS from the album UNKNOWN at LyricsAndSongs.COM
		The Lyrics above are to Battle Of The Beanfield and are (Mostly correct, Yet...
		The Lyrics seem to be the lyrics to Battle Of The Beanfield But they are (Wrong)
	www.lyricsandsongs.com /song/341862.html (384 words)

	Songs that start with BAT @ Streamwaves
		Battle Hymn Of The Republic (The Majesty Of America - Disc 2)
		The Battle Of Hoth (Ion Cannon / Imperial Walkers / Beneath The
		The Battle Of Kinsale (The Valley Of Tears)
	songs.streamwaves.com /b/bat (320 words)

	Forums \| Battle of the Beanfield book and launch \| The Modern Antiquarian \| Forums \| Battle of the Beanfield book and ...
		Out now: 'The Battle of the Beanfield', edited by Andy Worthington, with photos and contributions by Alan Lodge, Tim Malyon, Neil Goodwin, Gareth Morris, Alan Dearling and others.
		'The Battle of the Beanfield' took place on June 1st 1985, after a convoy of new travellers, peace protestors, green activists and festival-goers had set off from Savernake Forest in Wiltshire to establish the 12th annual free festival at Stonehenge.
		As well as suppressing the festival and introducing a summer solstice 'exclusion zone' around Stonehenge that lasted until the year 2000, 'The Battle of the Beanfield' also marked the start of a concerted effort to 'decommission' the whole of the new travellers' movement.
	www.themodernantiquarian.com /forum/?thread=24668 (449 words)

	Stonehenge Summer Solstice 2005 - pictures - sunrise - Battle of Beanfield
		King Arthur was reported as saying the Summer Solstice symbolises the mythical Oak King (who rules for the first half of the year) being beaten in battle by the Holly King (the ruler of the second half of the year).
		Battle of the Beanfield 1985 - twenty years on
		After the Beanfield battle, a 4-mile exclusion zone was created at Stonehenge every summer solstice.
	www.new-age.co.uk /stonehenge-solstice-pics-2005.htm (1150 words)

	Just a Coder - nickfitz.co.uk » Blog Archive » The Battle of the Beanfield
		As I sit down to write, it is twenty years and one hour since the Battle of the Beanfield, perhaps the most brutal police operation in the history of the United Kingdom.
		But as I left the Beanfield, for the first time, I felt sick enough to cry.
		Among the observers of the police action that day was the Earl of Cardigan; he had travelled ahead of the convoy on a motorbike when they left their gathering place in Savernake Forest (which he happened to own).
	www.nickfitz.co.uk /2005/06/01/the-battle-of-the-beanfield (1378 words)

	Further: Strange Attractor and beyond: The Battle of the Beanfield: Book launch
		The Battle of the Beanfield: Book launch and talk by the book's editor, Andy Worthington, on 'The legacy of the Beanfield', The Moot with No Name, upstairs at the Devereux pub, Devereux Court, London WC2, Wednesday July 6th 2005, 7.30...
		The Battle of the Beanfield: Book launch and talk by the book's editor, Andy Worthington, on 'The legacy of the Beanfield', The Moot with No Name, upstairs at the Devereux pub, Devereux Court, London WC2, Wednesday July 6th 2005, 7.30 for 8 pm.
		It's 20 years since the police closed down the Stonehenge Free Festival with unprecedented brutality by ambushing, assaulting and arresting a convoy of travellers, peace protestors and festival-goers at 'The Battle of the Beanfield'.
	www.strangeattractor.co.uk /further/archives/2005/06/the_battle_of_t.html (391 words)

	Stonehenge
		Stonehenge remains a place of pilgrimage for druids and those following pagan or neo-pagan beliefs, and was the site of a free music festival held between 1972 and 1984.
		However, in 1985 the festival was banned by the British government following a violent confrontation between the police and new age travellers[?] that became known as the Battle of the Beanfield[?].
		The Altar Stone: a 5 metre block of green sandstone (all the other stones in Stonehenge are bluestone derived from Preseli in Wales)
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/st/Stonehenge.html (482 words)

	Battle at the Beanfield (trig if U wer there) - Message Board - ezboard.com
		Battle at the Beanfield (trig if U wer there) - Message Board - ezboard.com
		Battle at the Beanfield (trig if U wer there)
		Its important that people know about this - please read it all and send the link to other people, tell them to send it to other people - people need to know what the police are like.
	p199.ezboard.com /fstopharmfrm9.showMessage?topicID=140.topic (127 words)

	StreetWrites Open Mic - A Bravenet.com Forum
		As a musician from the UK, I'd point to the free party / illegal rave scene of the early 90s, outlawed by the Criminal Justice Bill.
		Look up 'Battle of the Beanfield', your search engine will surely find something.
		Hey, i teach a class at an alternative high school called "the art of protest." We learn about how creative expression can be a form of civil disobedience, how people in oppressive situations use art as a means for acting out against repression.
	pub12.bravenet.com /forum/1016317029/fetch/56981 (123 words)

	Battle of the Beanfield by The Levellers bass tab @ XGuitar.com
		Battle of the Beanfield by The Levellers bass tab @ XGuitar.com
		XGuitar.com : The Levellers : Levelling the Land : Battle of the Beanfield bass tab
		------------------------------------ LEVELLERS - BATTLE OF THE BEANFIELD ------------------------------------- 1&2&3&4& 1&2&3&4& 1&2&3&4& 1&2&3&4& 1&2&3&4& G--------------------------------
	www.xguitar.com /bass-tabs/levellers/levelling_the_land/battle_of_the_beanfield.txt (94 words)

	Independent Media Center \| www.indymedia.org \| ((( i )))
		'Battle of the Beanfield' Jun85: Film Night and Exhibition: Nottingham
		On Wednesday 20th April, the exhibition moved to The Sumac Centre in Nottingham.
		It's 20 years, since the major trashing of my community, travelling on the way the make the "Peoples Free Festival of Albion" at Stonehenge.
	www.indymedia.org /fr/2005/04/872199.shtml (251 words)

	Forums \| Re: Battle of the Beanfield book and launch \| The Modern Antiquarian \| Forums \| Re: Battle of the Beanfield ...
		An excerpt from a chapter of The Battle of the Beanfield (from an interview with traveller Phil Shakesby, who drove the lead vehicle in the convoy on the day) is online on the Urban 75 site: www.urban75.com/Action/beanfield.html
		Andy is the editor of The Battle of the Beanfield and the author of Stonehenge: Celebration and Subversion (Alternative Albion, 2004).
		Battle of the Beanfield book and launch (andy worthington, Jun 17, 2005, 10:42)
	www.themodernantiquarian.com /forum/?thread=24668&message=298147 (268 words)

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