A People’s History Chapter Eight
A MISCELLANY OF HISTORY A TEXTUAL WEAVING OF A CABINET OF CURIOSITIES A TEXTUAL SAMPLER Chapter Eight The last chapter looked at the 1825 Riots and emigration with a particular focus upon Clay Sinclair of A People’s Republic of Stroud and coincidences worthy of...
Barbados and Stroud and Stroud and Barbados
At the solstice, on the longest day of the year, I traced long lines across the Atlantic archipelago From Stroud to Africa, from Africa to Barbados, And from Barbados to Stroud railway station. I visited Risée Chaderton-Charles’ exhibition: Caribbean Atlantean...
The Poetry of Chartism
The Poetry of Chartism; Aesthetics, Politics, History Mike Sanders C.U.P. 2009 ‘Between 1838 and 1852, the leading Chartist newspaper, the Northern Star, published over 1,000 poems written by more than 350 poets – as the readership of the Northern Star numbered...
Overton’s Window Again
Overton’s Window Trade Unions and Chartism and Trade Unions and a People’s Assembly The concept of Overton’s Window Connotes some sort of casement on fashion: A window of acceptability And unquestioned validity: A sort of Zeitgeist vista on the Zeitgeist. And...
A People’s History Chapter 7
A MISCELLANY OF HISTORY A TEXTUAL WEAVING OF A CABINET OF CURIOSITIES A TEXTUAL SAMPLER Chapter Seven The 1825 Riots These are my memories of what I saw and did, together with others in the Stroudwater Valleys in 1825. I know I am supposed to show remorse but I...
The Context to the 1839 Selsley Meeting
Some of you may remember Peter Griffin, the Kings Stanley historian. If it wasn’t for his wonderful generosity, I wouldn’t have written what follows below and you wouldn’t be reading it. I think it would have been around 2011 or so when I came home to discover three...