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Radical Victorian Hastings & The Birth of Women’s Suffrage

  LOCATION: East Sussex WORDS: Gareth E. Rees In the mid-nineteenth century, Hastings was one of the only towns in …

Heaven is a marsh in Winter

LOCATION: Essex WORDS: Gary Budden PICTURES: Maxim Griffin The book I chose to take deep into Essex’s marshland (from a …

Sleaford Mods: Invisible Britain – Portrait of a Country on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

WORDS: Gareth E. Rees In the new documentary, Sleaford Mods: Invisible Britain, Sleaford Mods (Andrew Fearn and Jason Williamson) tour parts …

The Four Ages of Gin: a Spirit Autobiography

A NEW YEAR BOOZE SPECIAL WORDS: Gareth E. Rees An autobiography told through the prism of a classic British spirit. …

The Monoliths of Cribbs Causeway Car Park, Bristol

LOCATION: Cribbs Causeway, Bristol WORDS: Gareth E. Rees This is an extract from my new book Car Park Life, out …

Witch vs. Scientist in the Battle for the Loch Ness Monster

LOCATION: Loch Ness, Scotland WORDS: Gareth E. Rees Hastings resident, Kevin Carlyon, high priest of the British Coven of White …

Dredged From the Memories of Glen Reid

LOCATION: Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire WORDS: Paul Case (with help from Glen Reid) It’s 2004. Glen and I sit in his front room, …

Astronaut, Spelunker, Deep Sea Diver*

WORDS & FILM: Emma Bolland LOCATION: Somewhere in Staffordshire, possibly… This is a true and faithful transcript of the story …

Between Place & Imagination

WORDS: Gareth E. Rees This is a transcript of my talk at the Walking Inside Out Symposium, an event in …

Unseen Places: Exploring ‘Hidden’ Topography in a Historic Upland Landscape

LOCATION: Black Mountains, South Wales WORDS: Eddie Procter Transcript of a talk given at the Tertulia: Radical Pastoral event on …