Well, here we are in the snug at the virtual Topographer's Arms. It's where members of Radical Stroud meet and chat and keep good cheer...

Port Vale versus Swindon It is and was an absolute truth, Universally acknowledged, as well, That our dad had a bad war in the jungle,...

London Radical History Walk Prologue: ‘And when King George’s poll Shall in the basket roll, Let mercy then control The guillotine!’ ‘No...

Is it possible to support both teams at a football match? I first watched Forest Green forty years ago, And Swindon Town sixty years ago,...

My Granny Bingham was born in Stroud in 1891. She married Charles Butler (a carpenter in the GWR in Swindon); they moved to London where...

Stroud Scarlet and Cochineal Prologue Cochineal: a sessile parasite That lives on the moisture and nutrients of cacti, That die when...

The ineluctable, irresistible, Omnipotent, omniscient Wisdom of the market; The impersonal workings Of market forces and their impulse;...

SOLIDARITY AND HISTORY BOARD GAME Rules 1. Make your own board in a Monopoly style, numbering the squares thus: 1-10 on the first side...

I’ve just counted seventy-four conflicts, In which this country has been involved Since the start of the nineteenth century: This martial...

Walking the streets of Clifton, You can see the consequences Of enslavement compensation, And you can see the triangles of trade Behind...

Twelfth Night Historians debate the ritual significance of Twelfth Night, The gendered Lord of Misrule, the Rough Music, The Charivari,...

The Great Money Trick (Performed with Matches) Hello and welcome to my company, I’m going to be serious, I hope you will allow me; I’m...

I’m writing this only as an aide memoire, Not listing real or imagined examples of sleaze, Or debated details of governmental corruption...