A People’s History Chapter 6
A MISCELLANY OF HISTORY A TEXTUAL WEAVING OF A CABINET OF CURIOSITIES A TEXTUAL SAMPLER Chapter Six You may have noticed a reference to transportation in the story of the Beard family in the previous chapter… Transportation It may not have meant a black cap, At those...
A People’s History Chapter 5
A MISCELLANY OF HISTORY A TEXTUAL WEAVING OF A CABINET OF CURIOSITIES A TEXTUAL SAMPLER Chapter Five Now to the subject of emigration: I recall meeting a woman in the churchyard at Randwick who had just completed her tending of a grave one early snowdrop day in...
DIY Christmas Truce
DIY Christmas Truce Christmas tree(s) or something similar go up on the German line. “Do you like our tree(s), Tommy?” “Merry Christmas, Tommy.” “Peace today, Tommy. No shooting today. Nor tomorrow, Tommy.” “We sing you a carol, Tommy. And then you sing one back. And...
Selsley Hill 2025 and 1839
Selsley Hill May 17th 2025 and May 21st 1839 Climbing up to Selsley Hill, Stroud’s Lord John Russell’s 1839 Electoral Message in our minds – Lofty admonishment of the poor: You “know not the general laws by which profit and wages are regulated.” Then Henry...
The 5Ws and the H of Chartism
The 5 Ws and the H of Chartism (A free verse narrative) (Please read and but please leave on the table) It was a political movement for the ‘People’s Charter’ (‘Universal Suffrage, No Property Qualification, Annual Parliaments, Equal Representation, Payment of MPs and...
A Newport Declamation
The Newport Rising of 1839 A Newport Declamation: These are the women and men of Newport, The charged and imprisoned; We shall remember them. Saint Leonard of Noblac, Patron saint of prisoners, Hear our roll call: James Aust, Thomas Ball, John Batten, Richard...