A People’s History
A People’s Local History I am hoping to stimulate a collective writing of a People’s History: a textual tapestry of life, work and landscape around Stroud, the Five Valleys and the county in the 18th and 19th centuries. (Once that is complete then we will focus...
read moreGive Thanks to the Book of Trespass
Give Thanks to the Book of Trespass When you’re walking footloose and fancy-free Along some seemingly ancient footpath, Checking your progress on the OS map, Senses working XTC overtime, (Apophenia! You’re part of it all! Just look at the view!) It’s hard to remember...
read moreNot Burke and Hare but Burke and Marx and Bathurst
Horatio, the Humble Wayfarer, musing to self: ‘On the assumption that when Cirencester Park was formed, the path connecting Bisley and Cirencester was closed by the Bathurst Estate, then I suppose we can define that as an example of enclosure. But we now see another...
read moreWalking the Wall
Walking the Wall from Walbridge to Brimscombe In the early years of the twentieth century, A jingoistic electoral cry appeared: ‘We want eight and we won’t wait!’ (The eight being dreadnoughts or battleships), Well, we waited at Walbridge for a bit And almost numbered...
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‘For 326 years the public have enjoyed free access to Cirencester Park – one of the largest open green spaces in Gloucestershire. On March 15th, that freedom will end. The Bathurst Estate is introducing a paywall for access, with outsiders charged £4 to go...
read moreCreative 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...
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