Tory Culture Wars I have developed a habit of reading as I walk, And today on my way to walking football, I read the report on the Tory...

The Brutish Museum: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution Dan Hicks I have chosen selections from this scholarly...

What’s in a Name? The Naming of Parts The Grave at Sunderland Point There’s an embarrassment in walking to the grave, Out there at...

REVOIR At Andy’s wake The decades dissolved Immediate recognition Clear memories. But Forest Green! You’ve strayed Adulterously. A...

A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies Bartolome De Las Casas I came across this book again after a gap of a fifty years after...

Emigration from Stroudwater in the 1830s and 40s ('Documentary Fiction') Foreword My emigrant’s passage started in Bisley Along a...

‘We’ve got our Club back’ It’s a great feeling when you feel and say this, The years roll back and you’re young again, Walking through...

Stroud and Abolition after 1834 (Derived from a reading of Slave Empire How Slavery Built Modern Britain Padraic X. Scanlon) I’m sure you...

East India Company Walk The information boards at Chalford intrigue, Because of the lack of information: At Chalford Vale and along the...

Radical Antiquarians on Tour The Antiquarians’ Road Trip Plus ca change Look! There’s Mr Jingle and Mr Pickwick in Stamford, A town...

I wrote these about twenty years ago and dug them out as museum pieces from an age before social media, UKIP, Brexit, and BLM. But...

Lines scribbled at the MShed June 27th 2021 So there you lie, supine, Edward Colston, A somewhat Ozymandian reminder Of ineluctable...

Remember when the Likely Lads Wanted to avoid the final score? Well, this was the exact opposite: A twenty first century digital version...

In the year of our Lord, 1649, England became a republic, And that word: ‘Commonwealth’ (‘In the beginning was the Word’), Another...