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Walking and Pop-up Open-air Museums

Purton and the River Severn Walking around Purton on the River Severn is almost literally rather than figuratively a pop-up experience. The biggest riverine boat-grave in Britain: old boats and barges rammed into the river bank to try and keep it stable. And there are the boats: rusting, mouldering, skeletal and cadaverous, beached in a liminal half-solid, half squelching aqueous mud-scape. There they lie, some staring out mutely at the rushing river. Others are slip-sliding away to oblivion. After our trip in the Bongo, we drove back along the A38 to find a spot for the night. Where better than Arlingham? We camped at Weston Farm, right next to field after field of orchards, and field after field of medieval ridge and furrow: an open-air pop-up of corrugated pasture, and sea-waves of...

Randwick 1832 Experiment

FACTS   SUBMITTED TO THE SYMPATHY OF THE PUBLIC WITH A VIEW TO CALL THEIR ATTENTION TO AN EFFORT THAT IS BEING MADE ON BEHALF OF   THE DISTRESSED WEAVERS,   AT RANDWICK,   Near STROUD, Gloucestershire   IN A SERIES OF LETTERS WRITTEN ON THE SPOT   BY AN EYE-WITNESS  ...

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Charles Dickens Walk

Charles Dickens Walk Radical Stroud will be starting their Charles Dickens series of walks on Tuesday March 19th. We shall board the 8.31 iron horse and return on the 18.34 train to Stroud. Those who wish to meet us at Paddington, if travelling from elsewhere, please...

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Festival of Terminalia

Tuesday February 20th Radical Stroud intend to contribute to the Festival of Terminalia with a visit to Bath and John Thelwall’s gravestone. We shall then recreate the events of Citizen John’s last lecture and his death as we slip down wormholes of time. This...

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Randwick Talk Thursday January 25th

.A presentation looking at the radical history of Stroud and the local villages in the 18th and early 19th centuries with a brief look at the links between local and global history. There will also be a focus on the ‘Was Great Britain close to revolution?’ question,...

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Titus Okere

Titus Okere, Once captain of Lagos Railways FC, Made history in 1953, When he signed for the Railwaymen Of Swindon Town FC, Leaving what was still a colony, Of the British Empire, To plough a lonely furrow down the wing, As the first Nigerian to sign up For a football...

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