To be a Pilgrim
Divine Providence We call it a giant canoe. They call it a ship. Sailing with cloaks of white canvas, That catch the wind, To send it...
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'Indian Peggy' and Stroud
Stroud, slaves and Indian Peggy In our last history lesson looking at the hidden history of Stroud’s involvement with the slave trade,...
The Gladstones at Gloucester
William Ewart Gladstone, Late nineteenth century Liberal, Principled opponent of imperialism, According to some history books; Serial...
William Cuffay
The Memoirs of William Cuffay, as recorded as faithfully as possible by his amanuensis, James Rochester, the Tasmania workhouse,...
Robert Wedderburn
The voice of Robert Wedderburn: ‘My father was a plantation owner, by name, James Wedderburn. My mother, Rosanna, was the other side of a...
The Life of Walter Tull
Walter Tull as a baby 1. Born 1888 2. In Folkestone, Kent 3. Mother, the daughter of a farm labourer from Kent – Alice Palmer. 4. Father,...
A Name that’s Writ on Water: Walter Tull’s Grandmother
Walter, you were born one year after the Jubilee, Queen Victoria’s that is, in 1887, Not the biblical Jubilee, With its trumpet of...
Four Poems from World War One
The Soldier BY RUPERT BROOKE If I should die, think only this of me: That there’s some corner of a foreign field That is for ever...
Saul Junction Stream of Consciousness and a Hidden Colonial Landscape
Saul The waters that run past Saul Junction, And the Stroudwater Navigation, On the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal, Flow past Phillpott’s...
Chalford and the East India Company
Chalford has such a labyrinth of weavers’ walks and footpaths – And on a mid-winter’s day, with plumes of smoke rising from Chalford...
Stroud and strouds and the Atlantic Archipelago
From Stroud to Strouds: The Hidden History of a British Fur Trade Textile Cory Wilmott Textile History Journal November 2005 These rough...
Stroud and a Hidden Colonial Landscape
A comparison of Island Man and Limbo with a formal piece of writing as an assessment, if wanted. There then follows a piece about...
Jesse James and Kings Stanley
At first glance, any connection between Kings Stanley, Near the Cotswold mill town of Stroud, And Jesse James of Wild West infamy, Would...
The New Working Class (pre-pandemic reading and writing)
Notes and Thoughts derived from reading The New Working Class How to win Hearts, Minds and Votes Claire Ainsley, Policy Press 2018 How do...
Albert Camus, The Plague
Novels, Fiction, Facts, Allegories and Covid-19 Following on from resonant extracts from Daniel Defoe, here's something similar from...
A Stroud Valleys Ghost Pub Pilgrimage
A Ghost Pub Pilgrimage through Stroud and the Five Valleys An A-Z Gazetteer With thanks to Geoff Sandles and his invaluable and necessary...
Reimagining how the Railway Lies: Slavery Compensation
Reimagining how the Railway Lies I live in Stroud, Home of the arch commemorating the abolition of slavery, An arch from 1834, Standing...
Orwell was wrong
In 1984 Orwell wrote “If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.“ I think he was wrong. If...
Statues and History and Heritage
Statues and History and Heritage ‘You can’t change history,’ they cry. Forgetting the old Collingwood adage: ‘Every generation re-writes...
A Journal of the Plague Year Daniel Defoe
Novels, Fiction, Facts, Allegories, History and Covid-19 The first in a series of posts: A Journal of the Plague Year Daniel Defoe ‘ … it...