On Reading Green Unpleasant Land The carefully curated aesthetic Of quintessential Englishness Lies in an idealised Empire-story:...

Gloucestershire Notes February 1798 The principles of freedom, of humanity, and of justice will Triumph over falsehood, tyranny and...

Stand in front of Stroud Bookshop and imagine … This building is now The George and the year is 1756; The month is October and times are...

Even though the eventual hero of Trafalgar owed his life to the ministrations of Cubah Cornwallis, ‘a woman of colour’ (he might well...

Even though William Dalrymple’s bestseller, The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise Of the East India Company Doesn’t mention Stroud in its...

Terminalia at Hock Cliff, Gloucestershire. 23 February 2021. I’m almost out of bounds. I’m standing on the edge. I’m at the lowest point....

This seems to be the stuff of legend: Not Finn MacCool on the Giant’s Causeway, But Hercules Mulligan from Coleraine, Revolutionary Son...

We at Radical Stroud have been marking the Terminalia Festival of Psychogeography on the 23rd February in various ways over the last few...

The Guardian, Saturday 30th January 2021 Aamna Mohdin and Rhi Storer tell us today in The Guardian that ‘scores of tributes to slave...

WALKING THE THAMES TO LONDON Not in linear sequence: Flooding prevents that - But in an act of near nominative determinism, I present the...

Uley Long Barrow is a partially reconstructed Neolithic burial mound, situated high on the Cotswold escarpment. Locally, it is known as...

I’m sure Robert Jenrick sincerely believes what he says about protecting our history and so on. I don’t think it’s mealy mouthed cant. I...

On the Winter Solstice of 2020 a group of Radical Stroud walkers paid a visit to this local “Trig Point” with a view to commemoration,...

We all know of the cloth stretched out on tenterhooks Around Stroud and the five valleys: Stroud Scarlet, Uley Blue, Berkeley Yellow, Out...

Selsley Common, Woodchester August 12, 1842/2020 The Plug Riots they were called. Riots don’t tend to have such interesting names...

Fake Views Trigonometry Points or Trickonometry Points? The clue is in the name of course: Ordnance Survey: Ordnance: artillery; Survey:...

One dull December tier two afternoon, I biked out from Rodborough’s dull streets, Then along the Slad valley to Bulls Cross: Past wintry...

It came upon a midnight clear It came upon a midnight clear, That glorious song of old, When angels bent down to the earth, And changed...

‘Rydal’, Coronation Road, and Captain Forster The house I live in was built in 1910; Typical Edwardian red brick semi With suburban...