A Stroud Broadsheet for Tolpuddle
A Stroud Broadsheet In the year of our Lord, 1649, England became a republic, And that word: ‘Commonwealth’ (‘In the beginning was the...
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We Demand Better
TUC Demonstration 2022 ‘We Demand Better’ The ‘Cost of Living Crisis’ is a misnomer – It’s a Crisis of Capitalism, Or rather, a constant...
Civil War Walk
So, there was Charles with his HQ at Oxford (Having been turfed out of London at Turnham Green), And if he were to retake London, Then...
Pandaemonium and Stroud Scarlet
Pandaemonium or Paradise Lost: 'There stood a Hill not far whose griesly top Belch'd fire and rowling smoak; the rest entire Shon with a...
1819 Public Execution near Swindon 51 Bus
I’ve thought a fair bit about public executions, Visited the remaining Newgate wall, At Amen Court just by St Paul’s Cathedral, For a...
A Storm in Every Port Vale
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
London Radical History Walk Prologue: ‘And when King George’s poll Shall in the basket roll, Let mercy then control The guillotine!’ ‘No...
Supporting both Teams at a Match
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,...
Swindon Town v Forest Green Rovers
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...
London Pubs Radical History Walk
London Pubs Radical History Walk Prologue: ‘And when King George’s poll Shall in the basket roll, Let mercy then control The guillotine!’...
Cochineal
Stroud Scarlet and Cochineal Prologue Cochineal: a sessile parasite That lives on the moisture and nutrients of cacti, That die when...
The Wisdom of the Market
The ineluctable, irresistible, Omnipotent, omniscient Wisdom of the market; The impersonal workings Of market forces and their impulse;...
Radical History Board Game
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...
Return of History
RETURN OF HISTORY William Ellis aged 12, son of Qualquey Assedew from Guinea, baptised in Stroud in 1801. Through tumbling hills and...
Onesimus
The Speckled Monster Born in 1749, Edward Jenner lived In an imperial, martial, century, When Britannia Ruled the Waves, And triangular...
GARAS
I’ve just counted seventy-four conflicts, In which this country has been involved Since the start of the nineteenth century: This martial...
Clifton and the Enslavement Trails
Walking the streets of Clifton, You can see the consequences Of enslavement compensation, And you can see the triangles of trade Behind...
Twelfth Night
Twelfth Night Historians debate the ritual significance of Twelfth Night, The gendered Lord of Misrule, the Rough Music, The Charivari,...
The Great Money Trick
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...
Old King Coal
The Capitalocene and The Anthropocene Old King Coal School history for me, both child and quondam secondary teacher, Was...
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