Category: Counter-Heritage

I was out on the allotment about 6 o’clock in late March, thinking about our walk the evening before. We had wandered out, in the gloaming, to a 17th century secluded Quaker burial ground and returned in a gathering owl-light. It was easy to imagine Quaker candles flick read more

Walking through the 17th Century around Painswick – Meet 5.30, the car park on Thursday 28th March These are the points we shall note and discuss: In March 1644, St. Mary’s Church in Painswick “became both a prison and a redoubt.” Colonel Massey established a garr read more

 My second posting on this blog will clarify what I mean by radical history. I use the term to describe both the content and the form of the story we intend to tell about our area’s past. The content will focus upon places in our local landscape that have a radical hist read more

I started writing A Guide to the Radical History of Stroud and the Five Valleys a year ago, with a narrative history occasionally touched by a comedic Mark Steele/ Mark Thomas style of analysis. After a year, I have reached the mid-nineteenth century, in terms of conten read more