I SPY Rodborough
1. Where can you find evidence of a turnpike road on Rodborough Hill? (5 points) 2. Where is Zion House? (5 points) 3. Where can you...
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Ye Grande Yuletide Rodborough Inquisition
Good morrow, good friends, pray tarry a while Forget the business of modernity’s style, And list to my questions about this fair parish,...
Rodborough Quiz
Starting at the Clothiers Arms 1. Walk up Rodborough Hill. You will pass Lower, Middle, and Upper Spillmans. I interviewed nonagenarian...
Give Thanks to the Book of Trespass
When you’re walking footloose and fancy-free Along some seemingly ancient footpath, Checking your progress on the OS map, Senses working...
A River Severn Pleasure Boat
There were some 2,000 voyages Made from Bristol for enslavement In the money hungry eighteenth century, With the consequent...
The Enslaved and the Great Western Railway
Friends, railwaymen and women, I come not to bury the Great Western Railway But to tell you of its provenance; To tell you how the...
Walbridge in Stroud and William Wordsworth?
Down there at Walbridge, on the canal plaque, Is a portrait of the nearby area, From 'circa 1790'. Stroud scarlet is stretched out on...
Decolonising Wordsworth?
It comes as a shock of some magnitude To discover that the pantheistic Genius of William Wordsworth (With a sonnet to Toussaint...
Stroud Scarlet and William Cuffay: An Exploration
We have written before about Stroud Scarlet, the slave trade, and triangles of conjecture. (See point 5 at https://sootallures.wixsite.co...
‘Averting the white gaze’ in Development from within an HE institution.
I’ve been keenly following the discussion threads that have sprung up following our initial conversation linked to Black Lives Matters...
Factory Walls Swindon and the General Strike
I always thought the Factory walls in Swindon Had a welcoming, warm and friendly feel, Even in the low sun days of midwinter. For this...
Grand National Holiday for Topographers August 12th
GRAND NATIONAL HOLIDAY, AND CONGRESS OF THE PRODUCTIVE CLASSES. “Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl... Behold, the hire of the...
'The Smoke' and 'The Sticks' and Railway Time
People such as Stroud’s MP, Lord John Russell, Hated plebeian beer houses, Where labourers, blacksmiths and artisans Listened intently as...
From Nailsworth to Montego Bay
A Performative Game of Two Halves: Half the First: At first glance, it might seem an improbable leap From Newgate Prison, and William...
A Community Curriculum
Some Activities for Decolonising the Local Landscape A Community Approach Introduction: These activities have been written for people to...
A Community of Scholars in the Landscape
Community of Scholars and Activists in the Field: Decolonising the Stroud Valleys Landscape In this time of lockdown and zoom, It’s...
Berkeley, Glos, and Berkeley, Va, 1619
From Berkeley in Gloucestershire to Berkeley in Virginia 1619 From Berkeley and Wanswell and Wotton and Nibley, Distressed weavers...
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...
'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...
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