Events

Talk on the elusive Digger Slimbridge Settlement

  Plot and Conspiracy! A focus on anarchy within Gloucestershire collections   Saturday 7 September 2024, 1pm-4pm       Talk and film: [booking essential due to room capacity limits] 1.15pm – The Digger Experiment in Gloucestershire: Was it at Slimbridge, 1649-50? by Stuart Butler of Radical Stroud   3pm – Showing of the community film, ‘Days of Hope – the Chartists in Stroud’ introduced by John Bassett, of Spaniel in the Works Company   Document display of records relating to anarchy and insurrection taken from collections held at Gloucestershire Archives   Free refreshments throughout the afternoon.   Up in arms or hiding from trouble? Discover your personal heritage at the Gloucestershire Family History Resource Centre, open from 10am   [Main event starts at 1pm]   Booking essential for the talks. Heritage Hub, Clarence Row, Alvin Street, Gloucester GL1 3DW. Parking on-site.    For more information see our website at www.heritagehub.org.uk.
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The Moral Economy

Remember the moral economy? Back in the 18th century when Citizens would register anger At unjust wages and unfair prices With protests, demonstrations, gatherings, Rioting, strikes, and beating pots and pans In a cacophony of rough music, With carnival skimmington...

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Toll Houses and Turnpike Gates

Toll Houses and Turnpike Gates There’s no rhyme or reason in my turnpike, Toll house and mile post investigations, I just walk or ride out on a whim, But recording rather than re-imagining the past, Just like a true old school antiquarian – Armed with my 1967...

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Workshop of the World

Workshop of the World Raphael Samuel Edited by John Merrick Verso 2024 An extract to stimulate similar writing about Stroud and the Five Valleys through a cooperative collective endeavour with people proffering a couple of sentences or more about trades and jobs and...

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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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