Decolonising Wordsworth?
It comes as a shock of some magnitude To discover that the pantheistic Genius of William Wordsworth (With a sonnet to Toussaint...
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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...
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...
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