Local Government in Gloucestershire 1775-1800 A Study of the Justices of the Peace Esther Moir 1969 Sometimes we can let the text and the...

Stratford Park Theatre of Dreams I love Wednesday night’s walking football: The gathering dusk of late October: Floodlights lighting the...

Football Specials There was, of course, a close association Between late Victorian railways And the formation of football clubs:...

ROUGH MUSICK Ye Prologue: There’s an old radical tradition Of beating pots and pans in the street, Making a public din (Rather than a...

Interesting to see about Peter Hawker, son of George who was a clerk to the Navigation company, who married into slave ownership. I have...

Did the infamous Blackbeard hail from Stonehouse? Edward Thache aka Blackbeard Was the Revd Thomas Thache, rector at St Cyr’s,...

The King’s Shilling I wasn’t quite two, when draped as Cupid, I went down with old-school pneumonia, In the rain-swept fancy dress...

Soldiers of Gloucestershire & Transportation It may not have meant a black cap, At those Quarter Sessions, Epiphany, Easter, Trinity and...

The Gloucestershire Yoemanry Cavalry Prologue Men of means with the wherewithal To pay for horse, uniform and accoutrements; Not...

My daughter saw Khadija Saye’s prints At the British Library exhibition, And when I told her that I broke down in tears, At the...

The Clarion Club Oh! Who rides by day and night, roundabout, Tinkling their bicycle bell? Hark how they near us with cheering shout,...

Cyclists of the World Unite You have Nothing to lose but your Chains ... The 1890s saw the development Of the bicycle as we now know it,...