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by Stuart Butler | 15th September 2024 | Counter-Heritage, History | 0 Comments

A MISCELLLANY OF HISTORY A TEXTUAL WEAVING OF A CABINET OF CURIOSITIES A TEXTUAL SAMPLER Chapter Three     ‘I like to think of your tapestry as a piece of woven cloth – the weft weaving through the warp – with all these occupations being carried out at different times.  As Stroud and its surrounding parishes grew and developed, the different generations of my family seem to blend into the pattern of the ever-changing history of the Five Valleys.   “History makes people and people make history”   What will Chapter 3 be?’ Shortwood and Montego Bay At first glance, it might seem an improbable leap From Newgate Prison, and William Pitt’s spies, From the febrile atmosphere of London In the early years of the French Revolution (‘No War! No Pitt! No King!’), And...