Stroud Scarlet: War and Empire. The Five Valleys and The World.

Does 'local history' even exist? This exhibition at SVA starts Friday + a spoken word eve 7.30pm with historians & writers, Johnny Fluffypunk, JLM Morton, Dr Alice Butler, Paul Southcott, Stuart Butler and more, from the Radical Stroud Collective.

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This timely show connects the dots between local, national and global histories through the lens of Stroudwater scarlet broadcloth. I'll be giving a few of my red poems an airing! Please come along and say hello🙏

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