Slavery and a Cotswold Landscape
On re-reading The Country and the City by Raymond Williams It must be thirtyish years since I read this, when my responses were all about William Cobbett, John Clare, enclosure, industrialization, urbanization, the fate of the peasantry and the rise of an urban...
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18th Century Sea Dog Doggerel: A 21st Century Shadow ‘All Ship-shape And Bristol fashion’: Thanks to the Saltford Brass Mill, Brass transported to Bristol and then bound for Sierra Leone, Ghana, Nigeria, Guinea, Benin, Angola, Gambia. The Seeming innocence Of brass...
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Stroud and the Black Atlantic
Thoughts derived from a reading of Creating Memorials Building Identities The Politics of Memory in the Black Atlantic (Alan Price Liverpool University Press 2012) Doors of No Return, Historic, documented, liminal places, Not gone with the wind, but both visible and...
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Stroud and the Triangular Trade
18th Century Sea Dog Doggerel: A 21st Century Shadow. ‘All Ship-shape And Bristol fashion’: With river, canal and turnpike, Cloth could be carried down to Bristol, bound for Sierra Leone, Ghana, Nigeria, Guinea, Benin, Angola, Gambia. Then The Door Of No Return: The...
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‘One Little town One big heart’: The Nation State, Stroud, Refugees and Migration
Introduction: Hello Jeannie, What do you think of this idea as a historical record? There is a long contextualising introduction – a personal and historian’s dispassionate voice – and then I’ve copied in fb entries (taking out names) to show...
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Bath Disenchantment Walks: Slavery Synopsis
A message from Richard White: HI folks, Instant update on the first 3 walkouts. We had an interesting walk East of the city on Sunday into that strange zone between river, canal and railway. Any ideas about that place would be very welcome. With your help I have now...
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