The following is the text of a press release sent out to media across the region The Wessex Regionalists condemn the decision by central government in London to proceed with the A303 Short Stonehenge Tunnel scheme. The project, devastating the World Heritage Site, again exposes the UK as a pariah state with no respect forContinueContinue reading “Wessex Regionalists Oppose Stonehenge Tunnel”
Category Archives: Heritage
Your Statuary Rights Are Not Affected
Many people have asked us about our attitude to the Black Lives Matter protests currently taking place around the world, and in particular to the removal of the statue of Edward Colston in Bristol. The first question is easy to answer–the Wessex Regionalists are opposed to all forms of racism, and have no hesitation inContinueContinue reading “Your Statuary Rights Are Not Affected”
Save Clifton Hill
The campaign to save Clifton Hill Sports Centre in Exeter has asked us to share this story. Happy to oblige.
History is Sunk
“My Lords, a nation gets awarded the character that it deserves. By neglecting to promote some aspect of this character, that aspect becomes increasingly insignificant within the image which other nations regard as our worth. And this might also hold true for the way future generations of our own nation come to regard what weContinueContinue reading “History is Sunk”
I See No Ships
Horatio Nelson is often misquoted as saying these words; relying on the London media might leave you equally in the dark about the ways in which the governance of Wessex is changing. On Friday, the Coalition announced yet more devolution to Wales. An extensive package in fact, even though, as Plaid Cymru have noted, itContinueContinue reading “I See No Ships”
Punishing The Toys
Windsor Castle is home to more than a few of the 1,200 items of ivory in the Royal Collection. The 1,200 items that Prince William would like to have destroyed as a gesture against poachers in Africa. Never mind that he’s not above (legally) shooting the odd bit of wildlife himself. The fact is thatContinueContinue reading “Punishing The Toys”
Identity Censorship Rules!
The Kernow Branch of the Celtic League is to be thanked for posting on Facebook the following cautionary tale: “Heritage Kernow – a study in ‘English’ Heritage sabotageEuropean Objective One funding was awarded to Cornwall some years ago. Its Single Programming Document was supposedly legally binding and its Priority 5 identified Celtic affinities, heritage, languageContinueContinue reading “Identity Censorship Rules!”
Our Silent, Supine Cities
It’s been a good week’s viewing for fans of Wessex history. On Monday the BBC ran a repeat of Michael Wood’s portrait of Alfred the Great, warming up for Neil Oliver on Tuesday, who wove a documentary about the king’s bones and their present whereabouts. If it was supposed to be an exclusive, it didn’tContinueContinue reading “Our Silent, Supine Cities”
That Artful London
After the 2008 financial crash, the investment bank Goldman Sachs acquired an unforgettable description, as a “great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money”. England has been struggling with its own undying vampire squid for centuries, in the form of London’s political, economicContinueContinue reading “That Artful London”
No Heritage Soon
Where did the inspiration come from for our National Health Service? Historians have a habit, given that Nye Bevan was a Welshman, to look to Wales, to the miners’ and metalworkers’ mutual aid schemes at Tredegar and elsewhere.Wessex has at least as good a claim. The Mechanics’ Institute at Swindon, opened in 1855 and paidContinueContinue reading “No Heritage Soon”
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