September 4 Stroud Radical History Talk at Eastington
Talk on the 18th and 19th Century Radical History of Stroud and the Five Valleys at Eastington Village Hall (the one near the Old Badger) at 7pm. Pay on the door. Weavers’ riots, machine-breaking, the Chartists, food riots, the visit of ‘the most dangerous man...
Rodborough Fields and the Lifitng of a Curse
Rodborough Fields and the Lifting of a Curse If they build upon this field, Springs will o’er-turn their water table, Peasants will harrow their dreams, Cut ridges in their anxious brows. If they build upon this field, Weavers will riot in the moonlit night, Stretch...
Rodborough Fields Ridge and Furrow
Rodborough Fields Ridge and Furrow When you walk down the footpath towards Kwik Fit, You can see a clear pattern of ridge and furrow (‘Like corrugated fields or waves in a land-sea’), Particularly on frosty midwinter days: A glimpse of a world before enclosure...
An August Sunday at Rodborough Fields
Sunday August 10th 2025 You know that picture of Stroud scarlet cloth Stretched out on tenterhooks in Rodborough Fields, The one in the museum, The one on the information board at the canal at Wallbridge, The one on the information leaflets used in this campaign by...
Epistle to a Goods Shed
~ epistle to a goods shed ~ I would notice you barely in passing you were merely a shell from the past you stood empty like mills but now you are filled with an energy longing to last you were built and designed in those pioneer times by Isambard Kingdom Brunel you...
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...