sootalluresApr 10, 20201 minWhat this is all about - 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...
sootalluresApr 93 min A Different Optic on Stroudwater and AbolitionAn Audit of Explicit and Implicit Mentions of Stroud and the Five Valleys Contained within the Pages of The Interest How the British...
sootalluresMar 281 minRough Musick instead of Clapping in the StreetsROUGH MUSICK When we beat our pots and pans in the street, When we make a public din, Rather than a private dinner, Ringing bells,...
sootalluresMar 201 minA Peculiarly English form of FascismA Peculiarly English Form of Fascism or Ein Volk Ein Reich Ein Fuhrer A Random Imaginary Inventory Constant use of the phrases: ‘The Will...
sootalluresMar 171 minGreen Unpleasant LandOn Reading Green Unpleasant Land The carefully curated aesthetic Of quintessential Englishness Lies in an idealised Empire-story:...
sootalluresMar 123 minStroud Valley TerminaliaGloucestershire Notes February 1798 The principles of freedom, of humanity, and of justice will Triumph over falsehood, tyranny and...
sootalluresMar 102 minStroud 1756 and Quebec 1759Stand in front of Stroud Bookshop and imagine … This building is now The George and the year is 1756; The month is October and times are...
sootalluresMar 62 minNelson StreetEven though the eventual hero of Trafalgar owed his life to the ministrations of Cubah Cornwallis, ‘a woman of colour’ (he might well...
sootalluresFeb 261 minStroud, the Five Valleys and the East India CompanyEven though William Dalrymple’s bestseller, The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise Of the East India Company Doesn’t mention Stroud in its...
sootalluresFeb 253 minTerminalia 2021 - on the brinkTerminalia at Hock Cliff, Gloucestershire. 23 February 2021. I’m almost out of bounds. I’m standing on the edge. I’m at the lowest point....
sootalluresFeb 191 minHercules Mulligan, Cato and Stroud ScarletThis seems to be the stuff of legend: Not Finn MacCool on the Giant’s Causeway, But Hercules Mulligan from Coleraine, Revolutionary Son...
sootalluresFeb 133 minColonel DespardWe at Radical Stroud have been marking the Terminalia Festival of Psychogeography on the 23rd February in various ways over the last few...
sootalluresFeb 75 minBlack Boy Clock Audit 30th January 2021The Guardian, Saturday 30th January 2021 Aamna Mohdin and Rhi Storer tell us today in The Guardian that ‘scores of tributes to slave...
sootalluresFeb 238 minWalking the Thames to LondonWALKING THE THAMES TO LONDON Not in linear sequence: Flooding prevents that - But in an act of near nominative determinism, I present the...
sootalluresFeb 11 minHetty Pegler’s Tump Uley Long Barrow is a partially reconstructed Neolithic burial mound, situated high on the Cotswold escarpment. Locally, it is known as...
sootalluresJan 212 minJenrick, History and the Present TenseI’m sure Robert Jenrick sincerely believes what he says about protecting our history and so on. I don’t think it’s mealy mouthed cant. I...
sootalluresJan 112 minIn Praise of Mars Olludius - A Winter Solstice Walk to the Stancombe Trigonometry Pillar On the Winter Solstice of 2020 a group of Radical Stroud walkers paid a visit to this local “Trig Point” with a view to commemoration,...
sootalluresJan 102 minStroud Scarlet and the IroquoisWe all know of the cloth stretched out on tenterhooks Around Stroud and the five valleys: Stroud Scarlet, Uley Blue, Berkeley Yellow, Out...
sootalluresJan 69 minWALKING THE THAMES TO LONDON #9-#13WALKING THE THAMES TO LONDON #9-#13 Raising Funds for the Trussell Trust In association with the cyclists’ group from The Prince Albert...
sootalluresDec 29, 20205 minRemembering William Cuffay by Tudor EtchellsSelsley Common, Woodchester August 12, 1842/2020 The Plug Riots they were called. Riots don’t tend to have such interesting names...