Cochineal
Stroud Scarlet and Cochineal Prologue Cochineal: a sessile parasite That lives on the moisture and nutrients of cacti, That die when...
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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...
SOLIDARITY AND 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...
Iconoclasm and Statuary
Iconoclasm and Statuary Sounds pretentious, I know, but I was reading The London Review of Books the other day, Yes, reading, not just...
Sweet Frome Flow Softly
I found her springs near Climperwell, Flow sweet River Frome, And then at Nettleton as well, Sweet Frome flow softly. Walked her path to...
Sleaze and Corruption
I’m writing this only as an aide memoire, Not listing real or imagined examples of sleaze, Or debated details of governmental corruption...
Stroud Scarlet and Enslavement
Tacky’s Revolt The Story of an Atlantic Trade War Vincent Brown When making notes from Tacky’s Revolt The Story of an Atlantic Trade War...
For Whom the Bell Tolls
For Whom the Bell Tolls There’s an old radical tradition Of beating pots and pans in the street, Making a public din (Rather than a...
Garden Court Chambers, Lincoln’s Inn Fields
Garden Court Chambers, Lincoln’s Inn Fields We wandered through Bloomsbury, Not quite like Mrs Dalloway: ‘Moments like this are buds on...
A Decolonising Resource to Explore Stroud and the Five Valleys
Decolonising Stroud and the Five Valleys A. The Report into the Black Boy Clock with Questions (see https://sootallures.wixsite.com/top...
Black Boy Clock and Statue Report
Report on the Significance of Blackboy Clock and associated Statue, Blackboy House, Castle Street, Stroud. 1. The Horological...
Joining the Palestine Solidarity Campaign
Palestine and Israel since 1948 The Diaspora Apartheid As a consequence of the Nakba The ‘catastrophe’ of 1948, Over seven million...
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