Category: Diversity

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 M read more

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 the read more

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 gro read more

I enjoy reading digressive, discursive 18th century novels such as Roderick Random, by Tobias Smollett. I like getting lost and absorbed in the preposterous coincidences; the long, long clauses; the seemingly endless sentences; the different style of paragraphing and th read more

Greetings walkers! I am writing to invite you on a third expedition through Bath enjoying the spectacle and if we can reminding ourselves of some other matters which may help us pay attention to the view but in a different way. Sunday 6 December 10.00 outside 44AD Galle read more

A report from and link to Richard White re the 2nd Bath Disenchantment walk: ‘Hi folks  a quick note to share with you a first draft of a blog entry … https://rswpost.wordpress.com/2015/11/02/walk-out-2/ I’ll tidy up and drop in trails and maps etc for read more

We request your attendance at the Ball to be held upon the First of November. The Ball will be an amusing Masque Ball, but without masques.  How could the idea of such an evening of paradox be entertained? Pray, read on, after a perusal of some of our possible ports of read more

A message from Richard White: ‘Greetings walkers! I am planning to do the next walk out experiment on Sunday 1 November. Again exploring ideas of enchantment and disenchantment as we walk out of Bath passing the homes of former slave-owners. Continuing to think ho read more

‘The stately homes of England How beautiful they stand To prove the upper classes Still have the upper hand’ Forget the satire contained within the lyrics of the song as a whole, These four lines contain the quintessential cultural messages About being born to rule, Abo read more

A note from Richard White on the first Bath Slavery Walk, Sunday October 4th: ‘A quick shout out to you all to say that today’s little experiment went well. We didnt knock on any doors but there was the beginnings of an improvised ritual as far as the slaveo read more