Wessex Worthies: Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill is one of the most famous, and most controversial, sons of Oxfordshire. Once lionised as a national hero, his legacy has been reassessed in recent years. Younger generations…
Winston Churchill is one of the most famous, and most controversial, sons of Oxfordshire. Once lionised as a national hero, his legacy has been reassessed in recent years. Younger generations…
As a party which places devolution at the core of our identity, we should be delighted that the government has announced a devolution bill as part of the king's speech,…
The recent period of civil unrest can hardly pass without comment by a political stakeholder such as the Wessex Regionalist Party, especially when some of the protests have occurred within…
“Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive / But to be young was very heaven!” Wordsworth’s ardour for the French Revolution cooled in the light of experience. Labour…
The Man On The Moor is a 2004 novel by John Van Der Kiste, set on Dartmoor on the eve of the First World War. George Stephens, an office clerk…
Sir Bevil Grenville (1596-1643) was a Cornish nobleman who was one of the leaders of the royalist Western Army during the English Civil War. He led 1500 Cornish pikemen at…
Escape was a 1928 play by John Galsworthy, best known as the author of The Forsyte Saga. It tells of World War 1 veteran Captain Matt Denant, who in trying…
The Oxford Murders is the English-language title of the 2003 novel Crimenes Imperceptibiles (literally Imperceptible Crimes) by the Argentinian novelist and mathematician Guillermo Martinez. It was subsequently adapted into a…
This post was originally published on Dr Eleanor Parker's Patreon blog, A Journey Through The Anglo-Saxon Year, as a patron request from our secretary. We republish it here with her…
Three Choirs Vineyard in Newent, Gloucestershire, is one of the longest-established large-scale commercial vineyards operating in Wessex today. It was founded in 1973, just as Britain was emerging from a…