Creative Writing Guide
A GUIDE TO WRITING YOUR OWN If you fancy it, here’s a practical easy guide to creative writing. (If any readers are into the intellectual side of all this slipping through wormholes of time stuff, and fancy some prompts about psychogeography, Radical walking and the...
An A to Z of the Jobs of those transported from Gloucestershire
An A to Z of People at Work in Gloucestershire in the late 18th and early 19th Centuries: The professions and jobs and sometimes status Of those who were transported When I look out of my window I descry The following on their way to Van Diemen’s Land and to New South...
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...
Rodborough Ridge and Furrow
Just over the road at Rodborough Glebe allotments, In Rodborough Fields, beyond Kings Road, Castlemead Road and Arundel Drive, You can see a clear pattern of ridge and furrow (‘Like corrugated fields or waves in a land-sea’), Particularly on frosty...
Nelson Street
Nelson Street Even though the eventual hero of Trafalgar owed his life to the ministrations of Cubah Cornwallis, ‘a woman of colour’ (he might well have died in 1780, but for her ), Nelson, in 1805, whilst on board the Victory, declared himself ‘a firm...
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...