Rights of Common
Commoners: Common Right, Enclosure and Social Change in England, 1700-1820 J.M. Neeson Some gleaning made from this uncommon text, So as to share knowledge in common: Timothy Nourse in Campania Felix, or a Discourse of the Benefits and Improvements in Husbandrywrote...
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With thanks to Bob Fry Edited letter from Henry Burgh, Justice of the Peace, to the Home Secretary, Lord John Russell, M.P. for Stroud: ‘Rodborough, March 29th, 1839, 6p.m. My Lord I acknowledge receipt of Your Lordship’s Directions this morning. I have taken measures...
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Homelessness Cast your mind back to the turn of the year: ‘Merry Christmas’, ‘Season’s Greetings’, ‘Happy New Year’ … And Ben and Bexie in the doorway at Peacock’s In their sleeping bags with books and a chess set In the incessant torrents of December; It...
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Having lived and advocated in the homeless environments in the City of Gloucester, the ambition is to produce a safe and warm environment and to live without fear within our own home. For all those that are not experiencing a home, young or old, able bodied or not,...
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FACTS SUBMITTED TO THE SYMPATHY OF THE PUBLIC WITH A VIEW TO CALL THEIR ATTENTION TO AN EFFORT THAT IS BEING MADE ON BEHALF OF THE DISTRESSED WEAVERS, AT RANDWICK, Near STROUD, Gloucestershire IN A SERIES OF LETTERS WRITTEN ON THE SPOT BY AN EYE-WITNESS ...
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Charles Dickens Walk Radical Stroud will be starting their Charles Dickens series of walks on Tuesday March 19th. We shall board the 8.31 iron horse and return on the 18.34 train to Stroud. Those who wish to meet us at Paddington, if travelling from elsewhere, please...
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