Requiem for Reg Smeeton
Requiem for Reg Smeeton There are those, of course, in Swindon pubs and streets, And in the purlieus of the County Ground, Who wonder if...
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The Colossus of Cecil Rhodes
The Colossus of Cecil Rhodes Statue: A definition of the noun: ‘a carved or cast figure of a person or animal, especially one that is...
A Pandemic Peripatetic
A Pandemic Peripatetic April 2021 Well, I am alone, self-isolating, And here I must remain, This kitchen window my prism, Reflecting and...
Stroud and WW2
“AREA EIGHT” IN THE WAR AGAINST HITLERISM BEING AN ACCOUNT OF THE CIVIL DEFENCE SEVICES AND A.R.P. IN STROUD AND NAILSWORTH By P.R....
Rodborough and Jamaica 1840
Rodborough and Jamaica, 1840: Reimagining Peter Hawker There are several strands and a good few facts In this tale of Peter Hawker and...
Newport and FGR: Radical Histories Conjoined
Nailsworth, Shortwood and Forest Green Have proud radical traditions: William Winterbotham, Shortwood minister, Spent four years in...
Let the Past Speak for Itself!
Retain and Explain Detained and Explained Let the Past Speak for Itself! There will be a series of quick posts over the next few weeks to...
The Reg Smeeton Eulogy
Two Reg Smeetons There might be only one Andy Beck, But there are, of course, two Reg Smeetons: The original Reg from Rawlinson’s End,...
Swindon and the General Strike
Factory Walls Swindon and the General Strike I always thought the Factory walls in Swindon Had a welcoming, warm and friendly feel, Even...
The Andy Beck Eulogy
For Andy There’s only one Andy Beck, One Andy Beck, And that’s the Andy Beck I met in the Wheatsheaf, Who’d just got back from Newport,...
A Different Optic on Stroudwater and Abolition
An Audit of Explicit and Implicit Mentions of Stroud and the Five Valleys Contained within the Pages of The Interest How the British...
Rough Musick instead of Clapping in the Streets
ROUGH MUSICK When we beat our pots and pans in the street, When we make a public din, Rather than a private dinner, Ringing bells,...
A Peculiarly English form of Fascism
A Peculiarly English Form of Fascism or Ein Volk Ein Reich Ein Fuhrer A Random Imaginary Inventory Constant use of the phrases: ‘The Will...
Green Unpleasant Land
On Reading Green Unpleasant Land The carefully curated aesthetic Of quintessential Englishness Lies in an idealised Empire-story:...
Stroud Valley Terminalia
Gloucestershire Notes February 1798 The principles of freedom, of humanity, and of justice will Triumph over falsehood, tyranny and...
Stroud 1756 and Quebec 1759
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...
Nelson Street
Even though the eventual hero of Trafalgar owed his life to the ministrations of Cubah Cornwallis, ‘a woman of colour’ (he might well...
Stroud, the Five Valleys and the East India Company
Even though William Dalrymple’s bestseller, The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise Of the East India Company Doesn’t mention Stroud in its...
Terminalia 2021 - on the brink
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....
Hercules Mulligan, Cato and Stroud Scarlet
This seems to be the stuff of legend: Not Finn MacCool on the Giant’s Causeway, But Hercules Mulligan from Coleraine, Revolutionary Son...
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